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Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D.

About

Terese Weinstein Katz, Ph.D., is a psychologist who has specialized in eating disorder treatment for over 30 years. Her approach aims toward insight and understanding while at the same time building skills and habits that support lasting change and self-care.

Dr. Katz began her work as a psychotherapist working with children and families in 1988. She earned her M.F.T. degree from Southern Connecticut State University Dept. of Social Work and her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her doctoral work focused on group treatment of binge eating and weight loss. As a clinical psychologist, she has worked with the full spectrum of people who struggle with food and eating: those with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating; the overweight and obese; bariatric surgery patients; children and adults; women and men.

For the past 20 years, Dr. Katz has worked in private practice, and in 2007, she founded Diet Coaching Services, which evolved into Eat Sanely and eatsanely.com. Prior to that, she worked in both inpatient and outpatient hospital settings, teaching students as well as treating a wide variety of clients and patients. She has consulted with child and family agencies and schools and is frequently requested as a speaker to both general and professional audiences. She has written columns and guest articles for several publications over the years. In the past, her blogs have appeared at eatsanely.com, Psychology Today, and Your Tango. Her Eat Sanely blog has now been relaunched, with the updated Eat Sanely: Toward a Peaceful Relationship with Food and a Health Enough Weight, a self-help book with worksheets.

Dr. Katz’s foremost objective in her practice is to help people find healthy solutions to their food and eating dilemmas. She believes that these solutions may differ from person to person, but that the goal remains the same: to find ways of eating that support health and peace of mind. She brings a broad range of skills and knowledge to this process, using insight-oriented, cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness, and other techniques and ways of understanding.

Books by Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D.
Recent Posts
The Best Diet Is the One You'll Stick With
This bottom line seems to emerge whenever diets are compared over longer periods: there are no magic bullets, and the best diet is the one you’ll stick with. What will you stick with, though? That question itself can be hard to answer.
Adolescent Girls and “Not-Quite" Eating Disorders
Do you encourage or freak out if your normal weight teen wants to diet? When it comes to the thin-line of adolescent girls' "not quite" eating disorders, parents face new challenges—even when childhood eating issues have been minimal or non-existent before.
What Not to Say to Someone Trying to Lose Weight
The things you say to a dieter can help or hurt. And, if you're the dieter, your responses can affect your ultimate success. It serves us all to find ways to communicate and support each other’s efforts in good self-care.
Talking to Kids About Food
What Should Children Eat? Asks this year’s Food Issue of the New York Times Sunday magazine. The issue explores how to get kids to eat more adventurously, what kids around the world eat for breakfast (not always sweetened cereal....), and more. Continue the discussion here by pondering what encourages better choices, what instills too much fear?
Weight Loss Surgery and Sane Eating: Can they coexist?

How does weight loss surgery mesh--or not--with the goal of eating sanely? This question triggers strong reactions—it's an "easy way out” or a “band-aid”. Or, on the other side, it's an effortless solution. The idea of surgery as a drastic solution seesaws with the idea that it's a lazy solution. Neither idea is true, or helpful.

How does weight loss surgery mesh--or not--with the goal of eating sanely? This question triggers strong reactions—it's an "easy way out” or a “band-aid”. Or, on the other side, it's an effortless solution. The idea of surgery as a drastic solution seesaws with the idea that it's a lazy solution. Neither idea is true, or helpful.

Self-Compassion for Weight Loss: 4 Ideas to Help Build It

Being kinder to yourself leads helps habit change — including eating-habit change — for several reasons. Some overeaters fear that self-compassion will decrease self-control. Others find mental habits hard to break. It's possible to cultivate a more self-compassionate stance with these guidelines.

Being kinder to yourself leads helps habit change — including eating-habit change — for several reasons. Some overeaters fear that self-compassion will decrease self-control. Others find mental habits hard to break. It's possible to cultivate a more self-compassionate stance with these guidelines.

Saner Eating Makes News: And Four Ways to Use the News

While we struggle in private with our own weight and diet demons, this public health and food environment does also help or hinder us

While we struggle in private with our own weight and diet demons, this public health and food environment does also help or hinder us

Weighing in on “Weighing In”

It’s a common question, with an answer that has shifted over time: “How often should I weigh myself?”

It’s a common question, with an answer that has shifted over time: “How often should I weigh myself?”

Addictive Foods

How do you deal with the foods that get you in trouble?

How do you deal with the foods that get you in trouble?

How Diet Books Can Help You Lose Weight

A book can help you to lose weight and stay fit—but never in the ways you might expect.

A book can help you to lose weight and stay fit—but never in the ways you might expect.