The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast

Dr. Ivy Love Margulies is a licensed clinical psychologist, hypnotherapist and death midwife who specializes in grief, loss, and trauma encompassing the entire spectrum of a woman's reproductive and maternal mental health. She works with postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, birth trauma, NICU, preterm labor, miscarriage, infertility, pregnancy release, terminations for fetal anomaly (TFMR- Termi...

Devon Cole is a weight inclusive, trauma informed RDN with private practice in Los Angeles. She received her training at Keck Medical Center and Children's Hospital LA and began her work as an RDN working in eating disorder treatment at all levels of care. She has worked at a variety of mental health facilities and schools, including Occidental's Health Center, providing nutritional counseling and...

Dr. Nicole Siegfried is the Chief Clinical Officer for Lightfully Behavioral Health. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has worked in mental health for over 20 years and has served in national leadership positions for the past 10 years. She is an international speaker and has published resea...

Dr. Nicole Siegfried is the Chief Clinical Officer for Lightfully Behavioral Health. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has worked in mental health for over 20 years and has served in national leadership positions for the past 10 years. She is an international speaker and has published resea...

Dr. Eva Altobelli, MD is the founder of Home-LA. She is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.  Dr. Altobelli holds accreditation from the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) to administer MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD. She has extensive experience in working with MDMA, psilocybin, and ketamine.  Dr. Altobelli is committed to setting the highest stan...

Mike Hinds is the Clinical Director at Avalon Hills, a residential eating disorder treatment center in Northern Utah, one of very few that are privately owned. He has extensively trained and supervised therapists. For years he was a primary practicum site for students in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Utah State University. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in human deve...

Dawn Smith Theodore, MA, LMFT, CEDS is a specialist in the treatment of eating disorders. Dawn has treated eating disorders for over 20 years and is a former professional dancer. She is the author of "TuTu Thin" A Guide to Dancing Without an Eating Disorder. She is also the author of her new book "Mother, Men and Me, A Memoir of Anxiety, Anorexia and Affairs We discuss topics including: You can ha...

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 co...

Andy Williams helps to bring guidance and healing to people who want more and better out of life.  Be it as a white water rafting guide, a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of eating disorders or a men's coach, Andy's heart and professional work centers on helping individuals become their most aligned, highest self.  Working with clients in a one-on-one framework, Andy listens intently...

Dr. Allison Kawa is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Clinical Director at the Los Angeles Center for Integrated Assessment (LACIA). She specializes in the evaluation of children, adolescents, and emerging adults. Dr. Kawa's approach to assessment is neurodiversity-affirming and informed by decades of work with individuals with neurodevelopmental differences, formal training in object-relat...

Greta Angert received a Bachelor's degree from Columbia University and a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from California State University Northridge. She completed her two year clinical training at the Maple Counseling Center and is certified in several trauma treatment modalities.  Greta has worked at numerous outpatient, inpatient and residential eating disorder programs as a primary th...

Celisa Flores, PsyD has worked as a therapist, program director, harm reductionist and clinical outreach professional in a wide variety of mental health and substance use disorder treatment setting since obtaining a Master's in 2007 and Doctorate in 2013 in Clinical Psychology.  She is now the director of clinical outreach at Lido Wellness Center, a trauma-focused mental health treatment program i...

Kathryn Hansen recovered from bulimia in 2005; and since then, she has been dedicated to educating and empowering women and men who struggle with all forms of binge eating.  She is the author of Brain over Binge (2011, 2022), the Brain over Binge Recovery Guide (2016), and the host of the Brain over Binge Podcast. We discuss topics including: Kathryn's story of "Brain over Binge" The two basic par...

Krystyl Wright, LCSW is a co-founder of LOT XI, a community conscious wellness brand based in Compton, CA.  LOT XI creates body and home self-care goods sourced locally and crafted by hand. They also organize immersive wellness experiences for corporate initiatives and community spaces. With her background as a practicing clinical psychotherapist, Krystyl incorporates sensory perception and organi...

Kacy is Director of Nutrition and Wellness, Outpatient, for Center for Discovery where she has developed the outpatient dietary program that has been implemented in over 28 facilities nationwide and has been part of the development and implementation of a diagnostic specific Binge Eating Disorder treatment program at Discovery.  Kacy's work is a belief in an inclusive not exclusive approach to foo...

Brad is the owner of XChange.fit, a private training gym in Los Angeles. He is best known for training Hollywood celebrities, as well as professional athletes. Brad lectures at many of the fitness based expos and talks as a motivational speaker. He uses a "body-mind" approach to his training. We discuss topics including: The reason that movement may not be fun The "what" and "where" do these diffe...

Dr. Schack has been treating teenagers and young adults with eating disorders for more than 20 years. She is one of only a handful of adolescent medicine specialists in the country who sees teens and young adults exclusively in private practice.  Dr. Schack has supervised the care of patients with eating disorders in outpatient, residential, and hospital settings. She has been an invited speaker a...

Dr. Schack has been treating teenagers and young adults with eating disorders for more than 20 years. She is one of only a handful of adolescent medicine specialists in the country who sees teens and young adults exclusively in private practice.  Dr. Schack has supervised the care of patients with eating disorders in outpatient, residential, and hospital settings. She has been an invited speaker a...

Shelbye is a Carolyn Costin Certified Eating Disorder Coach working with clients both locally in Los Angeles and virtually across the world. She struggled with an eating disorder for years and finally took her life back in 2016.  Through her own recovery, she realized how crucially important support and connection are. She has worked to become a full time coach helping adolescents to find their vo...

Dr. Ed Tyson is the primary owner of the Medical Center for Eating Disorders in Houston. He also does the medical care for the CFD residential treatment center also with his PA, Jennifer Nagel. He wrote the chapter on medical complications in Treatment of Eating Disorders: Bridging the Research-Practice Gap, and is a co-author of both the medical guide for the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) an...

Carrie Dennett is a Pacific Northwest-based nutrition therapist, certified Intuitive Eating counselor, journalist, author and speaker.  She writes a weekly nutrition column for The Seattle Times and contributes regularly to Today's Dietitian magazine. Carrie is the author of Healthy For (Your) Life: A Non-Diet Approach to Optimal Well-being, which blends intuitive and mindful eating with a non-die...

Sondra Kronberg, MS, RD, CEDRD-S, is a nutrition therapist and recognized leader in the field of eating disorders. Founder and Executive Director, Eating Disorder Treatment Collaborative, FEED: IOP, CONNECT and CONCIERGE programs in New York and virtual throughout the United States. Sondra is the host of Chats in the Living room weekly live Learning and Support, providing dialog, education and com...

Dr. Laura Berenstain is a physician, professional leadership coach, author, and speaker. She is a passionate advocate for equity, social justice, and changing culture through both individual and systemic efforts. Laura helps her coaching clients navigate life and career transitions, while improving their emotional agility, communication, and negotiation skills.  She guides her clients in identifyi...

Jayde Barber is the creator and host of the Students of Mind Podcast: a mental health advocate and entrepreneur. Since she was in grade school, Jayde has been diagnosed and living with several mental illnesses including anxiety, depression, and anorexia. Although she is not a licensed mental health professional, Jayde's experience as a patient, family member, and friend of individuals with mental...

Dr. Lowenthal is a Board Certified Family Physician specializing in eating disorder care for children, adolescents and adults. Utilizing a social justice, Health At Every Size (HAES) lens, Dr. Lowenthal is in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and cares for individuals of all genders, sizes, shapes and abilities and at any stage of their recovery. Dr. Lowenthal completed medical school...