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#178: Speaking with Transgender and Nonbinary clients with Grace O’ Connor

Release Date: 01/20/2025

#193 Diabetes Care Your Way with Janice Dada

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Janice Dada, MPH, RDN, is a weight-inclusive registered dietitian with a private practice in Newport Beach, CA. She is a certified Intuitive Eating counselor, certified diabetes care and education specialist (CDCES), and certified eating disorders specialist (CEDS). She is passionate about simplifying and destigmatizing the nutrition- and weight-based discourse around diabetes. She is the author of the book Intuitive Eating for Diabetes We discuss topics including: How Janice came up writing her book about Intuitive Eating and Diabetes Mellitus Understanding the Four Pillars in her book ...

#192: Research and the future of neurofeedback with Professor April Hackert

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Professor April N. Hackert, M.S., R.D.N. is a Global Psychiatric Culinary Medicine Research Dietitian, Scientist, Chef, eating disorder specialist, and the FOUNDER of Choose to Change Nutrition Services. As a scientific author birthing the use of Nutritional Neuropsychology and Psychiatric Culinary Medicine in conjunction with Medical Nutrition Therapy, this visionary orator is an international public policy advocate for the healing power of food on mental health. As a passionately articulate teacher, scientific researcher, and culinary wizard, April brings over two decades of experience to...

#191: Coaching with Michelle Hirschman

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Michelle Hirschman, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, is the founder and CEO of Hirschman Clinical Services. HCS provides coaching, case management and support services to empower, resource and inspire clients with a specialty in addiction and recovery, eating disorders and mental health. Michelle’s dedication to empowering people facing challenge has spanned across many fields and populations, including hospice, homeless, nonprofit sectors, chronic mental illness, eating disorders, alcoholism and drug addiction, relapse prevention campaigns and programs, nutritional health, suicide...

#190: How to Be an Intuitive Eater When Struggling with Binge Eating Disorder with Janet Goldstein-Ball

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Janet Goldstein-Ball is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Consultant (CEDS-C), and EMDR Certified. Janet has been in private practice since 2012, and in her current location in Burbank since 2014. Her special interests are eating disorders, trauma, and working with creative professionals. In addition to her private practice, Janet was the Eating Disorder Case Manager at Kaiser Permanente’s Department of Psychiatry in Los Angeles from July 2014 to January 2024, where among other duties she co-facilitated the clinic’s...

#189: Raising Empowered Athletes with Kirsten Jones

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Kirsten is a Hall of Fame NCAA Division I volleyball player, a 14-year NIKE executive, a motivational speaker, peak performance coach and the author of . As a coach, she works with athletes, entrepreneurs and leaders, where she helps them learn how to reach their goals by releasing their limitations. Kirsten's super power is helping people get out of their heads and into their bodies so they can feel their best and perform beyond what even they dreamed possible. She is the host of the , where she interviews coaches, athletes, trainers and industry experts about everything youth...

#188: Treating the Chronic Eating Disorder patient with Kaitlyn Cornell

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Kaitlyn Cornell, LCSW, CEDS-C, is a dedicated therapist specializing in chronic and enduring eating disorders. She completed both her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where she now serves as a Clinical Lecturer in the Social Work Department. In 2019, she founded KC Counseling LLC, a multidisciplinary eating disorder clinic in Champaign, Illinois. When she's not working, Kaitlyn enjoys long walks and indulging in her love for snacks. She is also a proud mom to her 2-year-old son. We discuss topics including: Understanding what is...

#187: Body Image Inside Out with Deb Schachter and Whitney Otto

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We discuss topics including: Understanding what is Body Image? What are BBIM’s (Bad Body Image Moments) What to do when you have a BBIM? You are not your body image and body image is not how we look What is the rotary? Understanding body image muscles The importance of naming what is wrong Having compassion for yourself SHOW NOTES: ____________________________________________ If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on , ,...

#186: ACT with the Eating Disorder Client with Stephen Reeder

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Stephen Reeder, MA, NCC, LPCC, CEDS is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist who has been working in the mental health field for over a decade. He has held a variety of clinical and leadership roles ranging from Primary Therapist to Regional Director of Operations. In addition to eating disorders, his clinical experience includes working with individuals struggling with problem gambling, sex and love addiction, and chemical dependence. Stephen incorporates his experience as an Acceptance and Commitment Therapist into his leadership...

#185: Your Mind is Powerful with David Laramie

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David Laramie, PhD is a health psychologist who strongly believes in systemic and integrative approaches to healing and wellness. He draws on psychoanalytic, emotion focused, psychedelic, energetic, and somatic approaches in his psychotherapy work. In both his personal life and professional work, he finds considerable value in mind-body practices such as breath and energy work, biofeedback, meditation, and non-ordinary states of consciousness. He is a long time board member and past-president of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association. We discuss topics...

#184: Eating Disorder Group Therapy with Carolyn Karoll and Adina Silverman

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Adina Silverman, MS, RD, LDN is a Registered Dietitian specializing in the treatment of eating disorders. She is passionate about helping adolescents, teenagers, and adults heal their relationships with food and their bodies. She supports her clients to have the courage to cultivate the relationship with food that feels best to them and reject mainstream diet culture messaging. Her thorough and compassionate approach has impacted many individuals and families and distinguished her as a leader in her professional community. Carolyn Karoll, LCSW-C, CEDS-S, is a highly regarded therapist...

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Grace O’Connor is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and the Vice-President of Gender Wellness of Los Angeles. Grace specializes in working with the Transgender and Non-binary populations. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University with a specialization in LGBTQ+ identity, and completed her training at the Antioch University Counseling Center and Colors LGBTQ Youth Counseling Center.

Prior to working at Gender Wellness of LA, Grace led the LGBTQ+ program at Westwind Recovery, a dual diagnosis treatment program in West Hollywood California, focusing on LGBTQ+ patients struggling with mental health and addiction-related disorders. Grace, along with her colleague at Gender Wellness of Los Angeles, President and Founder of GWLA Casey Weitzman LMFT, travel throughout the Southern California area conducting talks, trainings and workshops on issues specific to Transgender and Non-binary identity.

Grace has been interviewed for various publications including Healthline.com, The Fight Magazine and verywellhealth.com and is an active member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health [WPATH] and California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists [CAMFT].

We discuss topics including:

Grace’s story
Body image in the non-binary community
When a person begins the process that they are trans/non-binary what they see is not always what they feel in their body
Representation matters
Trans women come in different shapes and sizes as do cis women
“passing “ as a man or “passing” as a woman
Steps to work on to achieve body neutrality

SHOW NOTES:

www.genwell.org

instagram.com/lagirlgrace

instagram.com/genderwellnessla

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“The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

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