Eating Disorders Therapists in San Francisco, CA
I specialize in supporting children, adolescents, and families who are experiencing eating disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, or behavioral concerns.
I earned my PhD in Clinical Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and my postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine. I am also adjunct clinical faculty at Stanford School of Medicine. I am a certified FBT provider for eating disorders including anorexia, bulimia, avoidant/restricted food intake disorder, and picky eating.
I specialize in supporting children, adolescents, and families who are experiencing eating disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, or behavioral concerns.
I earned my PhD in Clinical Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and my postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine. I am also adjunct clinical faculty at Stanford School of Medicine. I am a certified FBT provider for eating disorders including anorexia, bulimia, avoidant/restricted food intake disorder, and picky eating.
Most of the clients my team and I support struggle with disordered eating, body image issues, and trauma.
If you could have hated yourself into a version you love, you would have arrived a long time ago. Do you long to feel comfortable in your own skin, to move through the world with ease and genuine self-acceptance, but find parts of you resisting that very freedom? I understand that feeling of disconnection from your body and your true self, burdened by past experiences. I help clients reconnect to themselves and the wisdom within, to embody the confident and loving person they truly are, and to live their life with greater balance and joy.
Most of the clients my team and I support struggle with disordered eating, body image issues, and trauma.
If you could have hated yourself into a version you love, you would have arrived a long time ago. Do you long to feel comfortable in your own skin, to move through the world with ease and genuine self-acceptance, but find parts of you resisting that very freedom? I understand that feeling of disconnection from your body and your true self, burdened by past experiences. I help clients reconnect to themselves and the wisdom within, to embody the confident and loving person they truly are, and to live their life with greater balance and joy.
I offer warmth and love created by a safe and welcoming environment. I have a passion for working with those who have been told they are “too much”. From working with teens and families to those struggling through trauma or grief, I am here. I work with intersectionality and identity, cultural explorations and difficulties, as well as difference and sensitivity. I have worked extensively with those with eating struggles. I have worked in restorative justice and enjoy working with the formerly incarcerated, Please ask me anything
I offer warmth and love created by a safe and welcoming environment. I have a passion for working with those who have been told they are “too much”. From working with teens and families to those struggling through trauma or grief, I am here. I work with intersectionality and identity, cultural explorations and difficulties, as well as difference and sensitivity. I have worked extensively with those with eating struggles. I have worked in restorative justice and enjoy working with the formerly incarcerated, Please ask me anything
I work with individuals and couples who want to improve their relationships and overcome concerns like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and childhood trauma.
In addition to talk therapy, I offer Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, a cutting-edge method proven to be effective in many situations where traditional approaches have fallen short. Complex PTSD, eating disorders, and persistent anxiety and depression are among many concerns that can see powerful results through KAP.
I work with individuals and couples who want to improve their relationships and overcome concerns like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and childhood trauma.
In addition to talk therapy, I offer Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, a cutting-edge method proven to be effective in many situations where traditional approaches have fallen short. Complex PTSD, eating disorders, and persistent anxiety and depression are among many concerns that can see powerful results through KAP.
I have been helping women heal from binge eating and bulimia since 2005.
If you are suffering with food & body image issues, issues of self-esteem & self-worth, relationship issues or dealing with trauma, I can help you. There are so many women who feel as though they are not enough. They believe that they somehow have to be better, look different, lose weight, be a whole different person to have a good relationship and a happy life. They beat themselves up constantly and are always trying to change. Do you understand this feeling? If so, I can help you have a loving relationship with yourself and settle into who you really are.
I have been helping women heal from binge eating and bulimia since 2005.
If you are suffering with food & body image issues, issues of self-esteem & self-worth, relationship issues or dealing with trauma, I can help you. There are so many women who feel as though they are not enough. They believe that they somehow have to be better, look different, lose weight, be a whole different person to have a good relationship and a happy life. They beat themselves up constantly and are always trying to change. Do you understand this feeling? If so, I can help you have a loving relationship with yourself and settle into who you really are.
Many people come to therapy feeling stuck in painful relationship patterns, struggling with self-worth, or carrying the emotional impact of earlier experiences. Others feel successful on the outside but internally overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure how to move forward. Therapy can be a space to slow down, understand what is happening beneath the surface, and begin meaningful change. I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Free Association Clinic in San Francisco, supervised by Dr. Amber Trotter (33221). I specialize in working with adults navigating personality and attachment dynamics and relational, systemic, or developmental trauma.
Many people come to therapy feeling stuck in painful relationship patterns, struggling with self-worth, or carrying the emotional impact of earlier experiences. Others feel successful on the outside but internally overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure how to move forward. Therapy can be a space to slow down, understand what is happening beneath the surface, and begin meaningful change. I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Free Association Clinic in San Francisco, supervised by Dr. Amber Trotter (33221). I specialize in working with adults navigating personality and attachment dynamics and relational, systemic, or developmental trauma.
Perhaps you are struggling with binge eating behaviors, anxiety, or a sense of disconnection from yourself and others.
I provide trauma-informed care for folks (17+) specializing in eating and exercise disorders, complex trauma, anxiety and relational distress. My approach is collaborative and integrative, using evidence-based tools like CBT and DBT alongside Compassion Focused, Narrative and Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy to support your healing journey.
Perhaps you are struggling with binge eating behaviors, anxiety, or a sense of disconnection from yourself and others.
I provide trauma-informed care for folks (17+) specializing in eating and exercise disorders, complex trauma, anxiety and relational distress. My approach is collaborative and integrative, using evidence-based tools like CBT and DBT alongside Compassion Focused, Narrative and Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy to support your healing journey.
I specialize in working with persons suffering from trauma, eating disorders, addictions, relationship issues, ADHD, and chronic illness.
Are you struggling to cope with life’s difficulties? Are you feeling out of control? Hopeless? Whether this is a recent experience or a life long issue, I am here to help. I believe every person has the innate ability and power within themselves to manage life’s challenges and improve yourselves—you just don’t always know how to access it. I will assist you and challenge you into accessing your tools, utilizing your innate strengths, and finding new insights into yourself.
I specialize in working with persons suffering from trauma, eating disorders, addictions, relationship issues, ADHD, and chronic illness.
Are you struggling to cope with life’s difficulties? Are you feeling out of control? Hopeless? Whether this is a recent experience or a life long issue, I am here to help. I believe every person has the innate ability and power within themselves to manage life’s challenges and improve yourselves—you just don’t always know how to access it. I will assist you and challenge you into accessing your tools, utilizing your innate strengths, and finding new insights into yourself.
Jessica Claire Lief
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, MLS, DSW
1 Endorsed
San Francisco, CA 94118
I support individuals who are recovering from eating disorders, body image issues, substance use, trauma, self harm, Borderline Personality Disorder, prenatal and postpartum issues.
Please call me for a free telephone assessment. My work involves authentic client connection, honesty, and creative solutions to help you pursue autonomy and clarity. In my practice, I treat Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), and Atypical and mixed-diagnosis eating disorders.
I support individuals who are recovering from eating disorders, body image issues, substance use, trauma, self harm, Borderline Personality Disorder, prenatal and postpartum issues.
Please call me for a free telephone assessment. My work involves authentic client connection, honesty, and creative solutions to help you pursue autonomy and clarity. In my practice, I treat Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), and Atypical and mixed-diagnosis eating disorders.
I have a great amount of experience and training working with clients with Eating Disorders/ Disordered Eating, Trauma, Depression, and Anxiety.
Sometimes we get to a point in our lives where the way we were doing things is no longer working, and something has to change. Do you feel like you're stuck in the same pattern but not sure how to change it? I strive to create a warm, trusting, and safe relationship for you to be able to express your authentic self, without fear of judgement. I believe that healing and change are possible given the right tools.
I have a great amount of experience and training working with clients with Eating Disorders/ Disordered Eating, Trauma, Depression, and Anxiety.
Sometimes we get to a point in our lives where the way we were doing things is no longer working, and something has to change. Do you feel like you're stuck in the same pattern but not sure how to change it? I strive to create a warm, trusting, and safe relationship for you to be able to express your authentic self, without fear of judgement. I believe that healing and change are possible given the right tools.
Eating disorders occur when the path towards healthy development goes awry.
Major life events, both positive and negative, can require emotional adjustments that take us by surprise. Even desired life changes like parenthood, marriage, and graduation can lead to unexpected feelings. Current research on attachment confirms that humans are more resilient in the face of major life change and trauma when they feel understood and supported by another. I use psychotherapy and EMDR in my practice. In therapy I am direct, but I provide the empathy and compassion that we all need. My patients feel seen by me and in turn, seek out other fortifying relationships.
Eating disorders occur when the path towards healthy development goes awry.
Major life events, both positive and negative, can require emotional adjustments that take us by surprise. Even desired life changes like parenthood, marriage, and graduation can lead to unexpected feelings. Current research on attachment confirms that humans are more resilient in the face of major life change and trauma when they feel understood and supported by another. I use psychotherapy and EMDR in my practice. In therapy I am direct, but I provide the empathy and compassion that we all need. My patients feel seen by me and in turn, seek out other fortifying relationships.
Therapy provides an opportunity to slow down amidst the rapid paces of our lives and look around to explore the ways we cope with difficulty. Ultimately, this teaches us more about who we truly are. Pain is inevitable in our lives, but it can function as a window into our truer, deeper selves. Contacting and nurturing the parts of ourselves that have been hurt, shamed, or neglected helps us to more fully embody our unique selves and find freedom from the constraints of our suffering.
Therapy provides an opportunity to slow down amidst the rapid paces of our lives and look around to explore the ways we cope with difficulty. Ultimately, this teaches us more about who we truly are. Pain is inevitable in our lives, but it can function as a window into our truer, deeper selves. Contacting and nurturing the parts of ourselves that have been hurt, shamed, or neglected helps us to more fully embody our unique selves and find freedom from the constraints of our suffering.
I help my clients in working through relationship issues, identity challenges, and mitigate mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, and eating disorders.
Using a variety of therapeutic tools from different theoretical orientations, I have a strong psychodynamic clinical base with emphasis on self awareness, relationships and interpersonal development. While building a partnership with my clients, the main goal is to gain deeper understanding to make way for an increased satisfaction with one's life.
I help my clients in working through relationship issues, identity challenges, and mitigate mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, and eating disorders.
Using a variety of therapeutic tools from different theoretical orientations, I have a strong psychodynamic clinical base with emphasis on self awareness, relationships and interpersonal development. While building a partnership with my clients, the main goal is to gain deeper understanding to make way for an increased satisfaction with one's life.
My clinical background and passion lie in supporting young adults/adults navigating eating disorders and disordered eating, anxiety, mood disorders, trauma, substance use, and life transitions.
Clients often describe my counseling style as accepting, creative, and compassionately challenging. I work from a client-centered, psychodynamic, and IFS-informed lens, and I am Phase 1 trained in Brainspotting. I believe in the power of the therapeutic relationship and the importance of creating a safe, nonjudgmental space where you feel seen and heard.
My clinical background and passion lie in supporting young adults/adults navigating eating disorders and disordered eating, anxiety, mood disorders, trauma, substance use, and life transitions.
Clients often describe my counseling style as accepting, creative, and compassionately challenging. I work from a client-centered, psychodynamic, and IFS-informed lens, and I am Phase 1 trained in Brainspotting. I believe in the power of the therapeutic relationship and the importance of creating a safe, nonjudgmental space where you feel seen and heard.
These struggles might be a result of: a painful relationship with your body and food, an eating disorder, a history of abuse, trauma or alcoholism in your childhood home or difficulites parenting your child or teenager.
I bring over twenty years of experience working in a wide variety of settings with children, adolescents, families and individuals. I have a therapeutic style that is authetic, interactive, non-judgemental and kind. Psychotherapy can help -- growth and change are always possible.
These struggles might be a result of: a painful relationship with your body and food, an eating disorder, a history of abuse, trauma or alcoholism in your childhood home or difficulites parenting your child or teenager.
I bring over twenty years of experience working in a wide variety of settings with children, adolescents, families and individuals. I have a therapeutic style that is authetic, interactive, non-judgemental and kind. Psychotherapy can help -- growth and change are always possible.
My own eating disorder history led to my path helping those struggling with binging, restricting, purging, compulsive exercise and body dissatisfaction.
Centering on your unique needs, building on your strengths, focusing on solutions, developing new skills and insights, we can explore difficult issues together, challenging the limits that keep you stuck in old, troubling patterns. I am interactive with you yet I listen carefully to your unique needs, goals and preferences.
My own eating disorder history led to my path helping those struggling with binging, restricting, purging, compulsive exercise and body dissatisfaction.
Centering on your unique needs, building on your strengths, focusing on solutions, developing new skills and insights, we can explore difficult issues together, challenging the limits that keep you stuck in old, troubling patterns. I am interactive with you yet I listen carefully to your unique needs, goals and preferences.
If you have made your way to this page, you are probably struggling with a "relationship problem"-either with someone else, or with yourself. This is likely causing you significant emotional pain. Your predicament may have been triggered by a recent event, such as loss or trauma, or may have lingered and festered for years. Your symptoms may vary-you may experience persistent discontent, loneliness, emptiness; have difficulty finding or sustaining a relationship, or have a spouse who wants you to get "fixed".You may be battling addiction or a destructive behavior that is thwarting your life, but impossible to give up, despite endless attempts.
If you have made your way to this page, you are probably struggling with a "relationship problem"-either with someone else, or with yourself. This is likely causing you significant emotional pain. Your predicament may have been triggered by a recent event, such as loss or trauma, or may have lingered and festered for years. Your symptoms may vary-you may experience persistent discontent, loneliness, emptiness; have difficulty finding or sustaining a relationship, or have a spouse who wants you to get "fixed".You may be battling addiction or a destructive behavior that is thwarting your life, but impossible to give up, despite endless attempts.
Hello,
I am Dr. Krysti. Navigating the demands of a successful career in the healthcare industry can often lead to feelings of burnout, emptiness, and a lack of balance in life. You may find yourself struggling with anxiety, depression, ADHD, or difficulties in maintaining personal relationships despite your professional achievements. It's common to feel isolated and uncertain about seeking help, especially if you've never engaged in therapy or coaching.
As a licensed clinical psychologist with over a decade of experience and over 3,000 sessions, I specialize in supporting professionals like you- doctors, nurses, business owners.
Hello,
I am Dr. Krysti. Navigating the demands of a successful career in the healthcare industry can often lead to feelings of burnout, emptiness, and a lack of balance in life. You may find yourself struggling with anxiety, depression, ADHD, or difficulties in maintaining personal relationships despite your professional achievements. It's common to feel isolated and uncertain about seeking help, especially if you've never engaged in therapy or coaching.
As a licensed clinical psychologist with over a decade of experience and over 3,000 sessions, I specialize in supporting professionals like you- doctors, nurses, business owners.
You may find yourself turning to addiction, chaotic relationships, disordered eating, your inner critic and negative body image to find relief from anxiety, stress or trauma.
My style is warm, collaborative and grounded. In listening to your unique experience, I will provide guidance in shifting limiting patterns to transform negative body image and heal your relationship with food, and underlying issues such as trauma, depression and anxiety. This will allow you to access more fulfilling relationships, work, play and relaxation.
You may find yourself turning to addiction, chaotic relationships, disordered eating, your inner critic and negative body image to find relief from anxiety, stress or trauma.
My style is warm, collaborative and grounded. In listening to your unique experience, I will provide guidance in shifting limiting patterns to transform negative body image and heal your relationship with food, and underlying issues such as trauma, depression and anxiety. This will allow you to access more fulfilling relationships, work, play and relaxation.
My approach is to draw out your unique personal strengths rather than focusing on the problems in your life. In areas of your life in which you feel stuck, we will work together to understand and alter the cognitive and emotional systems that are holding you back from accessing your healthiest, most grounded self. Your therapy can be focussed on identifying solutions to challenging situations, or, if you are interested in longer term treatment, we may explore your past and how it affects your life today.
My approach is to draw out your unique personal strengths rather than focusing on the problems in your life. In areas of your life in which you feel stuck, we will work together to understand and alter the cognitive and emotional systems that are holding you back from accessing your healthiest, most grounded self. Your therapy can be focussed on identifying solutions to challenging situations, or, if you are interested in longer term treatment, we may explore your past and how it affects your life today.
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Eating Disorders Therapists
What happens in therapy for eating disorders?
In therapy for eating disorders, patients typically describe their eating and exercise behaviors, their patterns of eating in relation to stress, their beliefs about their body, the ways their eating behavior affects their relationships, and their desire (or lack of it) to change. Such information helps the therapist understand the origins of the disorder and the role it plays in the patient’s life, important for guiding treatment. Attitudes and feelings about food and eating, body weight, and physical appearance are common topics of discussion throughout treatment.
What therapy types help with eating disorders?
Once any acute medical or psychiatric emergency is resolved, psychoactive medication is often prescribed, requiring the supervision of a psychiatrist. In addition, patients receive some form of nutritional counseling along with one or more forms of psychotherapy. For adolescents, family-based treatment is empirically validated and considered the first line of treatment; parents and their children meet weekly with a clinician as the adults are coached on how to nourish and psychologically support the young patient. Adults typically receive some form of individual psychotherapy, intended to resolve the cognitive and behavioral disturbances that underlie the disorder and to relieve the mood disturbances that accompany it. In addition, patients may also be helped by group therapy.
What is the goal of therapy for eating disorders?
The most immediate goal of treatment for eating disorders is to save the life of people who are on a path of starving themselves to death or engaging in eating patterns that are doing irreparable physical harm to their body. Once the acute medical danger is past, therapy is required to understand the nature of the disordered eating and/or exercise patterns, establish healthy eating behavior, and to tackle the many erroneous beliefs and distorted self-perceptions that underlie eating disorders and continue to pose a threat to health and life. Therapy also addresses the impaired mood that not only accompanies eating disorders but intensifies the danger to health and life.
What are the limitations of therapy for eating disorders?
Therapy can be very helpful for eating disorders—but that can happen only after people recognize they have a condition that must be treated. Especially with anorexia, the distortions in self-image that accompany the disorder can keep people from acknowledging they have a problem. Individuals may in fact see their eating disorder as a badge of self-control. Those with binge-eating disorder may feel too ashamed to seek help. Therapy cannot help those who do not avail themselves of it.
How long does therapy last for eating disorders?
Because of their complexity, recovery from eating disorders is usually a long-term process—measured in months and years— often marked by setbacks and relapse. Some form of help, such as individual or group therapy, may be advisable for much of that time. It is a general rule of thumb that the longer the illness has endured and the dysregulated eating behavior has taken root, the longer treatment is likely to be needed.