Services
Training & Staff Development
I offer lectures, workshops, and in-depth clinical training for treatment programs, graduate institutions, CEU platforms, and professional organizations across the U.S. and internationally.
As a psychoanalyst and board-certified, licensed psychologist, author of several books and numerous peer-reviewed publications on eating disorders, and with over a decade of clinical work with and supervision of complex cases, I specialize in bridging relationship-based psychotherapy with contemporary eating disorder treatment, trauma-informed care, and clinician development.
Staff Trainings for Eating Disorder Programs
I provide customized trainings for clinical teams at all levels of care – IOP, PHP, residential, and outpatient. These trainings support staff in:
- Deepening understanding of case formulation in ED presentations
- Working with transference/countertransference and enactment
- Enhancing parental engagement and reflective functioning through a relational frame
- Dynamic underpinnings of eating disorders and body image concerns
- Men and boys with EDs, including anorexia nervosa, muscle dysmorphia, and others
Additional topics are available on request.
Format Options
- One-time lectures or keynotes (in-person or virtual)
- 90-minute or half-day staff training intensives
- Ongoing consulting or faculty roles
- CEU-eligible workshops and recorded webinars
Selected Training & Lecture Venues
- Austen Riggs
- PESI Digital Seminar
- Australian and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders
- San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP)
- Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC)
- William Alanson White Institute – EDCAS Program
- Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP)
- The Clinic Without Walls
- University of California, San Francisco Medical School
- Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis – Los Angeles (ICPLA)
- Canadian Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc.
Selected Media Features & Interviews
- New Book Network - Eating Disorders
- Radio New Zealand – Why Do Men Fret About Going Bald?
- GQ Magazine (Italy) – Why Hair Loss Is a Male Obsession
- Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast – Eating Disorders, Empathy, and Reflective Function
- Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch – The Dynamic Underpinnings of Eating Disorders
- Therapist.com – Eating Disorders in Men and Boys
- Rachelle Heinemann Podcast – Lying and Deception in Eating Disorders
- Dr. Suzanne Phillips (Psych Up Live) – Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders & Understanding Anorexia Nervosa in Males
- ED Matters with Kathy Cortese – When Words Fail and Bodies Speak
- Newsweek – Where's Ken? The Abandonment of Men in Body Positivity
- WebMD, Yahoo Health, Slate, Glammonitor, National Post, and others on male eating disorders, the psychodynamics of body image, and other topics.
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