Eating disorders therapists

Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC

Samantha Levinson is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Bryn Mawr with 18 years in practice and licenses in Pennsylvania and Florida. She works with toddlers, children, teens, adults, older adults, couples and families facing behavioral and emotional challenges. Her main areas are anxiety, ADHD, depression and other mood disorders, OCD, autism and trauma, and she also helps with eating concerns, grief and relationships. Her background spans in-home therapy, outpatient care and group practice. She uses person-centered therapy, CBT, DBT and play therapy, along with an understanding of child development, and she is gender-affirming and experienced with LGBTQ+ clients. She offers phone coaching between sessions and sees clients in person in Bryn Mawr and online.

Associate Professional Counselor, LAPC, MA, RYT-200, EOL, Doula

Roni Evans is a licensed associate professional counselor in Doylestown with five years in practice, who is also a registered yoga teacher and an end-of-life doula. They work with preteens, teens, adults, older adults, families and groups on trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, life transitions, self-esteem, OCD, eating concerns and chronic illness, including death and end-of-life planning. Their approach is trauma-informed, nonjudgmental and transparent, built around each client's strengths rather than a rigid manual, and draws on DBT, Internal Family Systems, exposure and response prevention and humanistic methods. They affirm neurodivergent and LGBTQIA2S+ clients and offer help with self-critical inner voices. Sessions are available in person in Doylestown and by telehealth.

BC-DMT, LPC

Keli Laverty is a Licensed Professional Counselor and board-certified dance/movement therapist in West Chester with 24 years in practice. She focuses on anxiety, trauma and eating disorders, and often works with women who seem capable on the outside but feel overwhelmed, stuck in overthinking or disconnected from their bodies, including those who have done talk therapy and still feel something is missing. She also helps with body image, depression, burnout, postpartum concerns and substance use. Her work combines movement, body awareness and conversation to help regulate the nervous system and build trust in the body; no dance experience is needed. She also uses ACT, DBT and mindfulness, and can integrate Christian faith on request. Sessions are in person and online.

Counselor, PsyD, LMHC

Dr. Dee Franklin is a licensed mental health counselor with a PsyD and the owner and clinical director of CBT Fort Lauderdale, with 20 years in practice. She specializes in OCD, body dysmorphic disorder, eating disorders, sensory aversions and anxiety, and also treats phobias, panic, illness anxiety and pain-related somatic conditions, acute stress, trauma and PTSD. She works with preteens, teens, adults and families. Her treatment relies on cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure and response prevention and cognitive processing therapy, and she is BTTI trained and certified in several research-supported approaches. Clients can reach her by text or through her website, and she offers sessions in person and online.

Psychologist, PhD

Dr. Erica Bacher is a licensed psychologist in Atlanta with 15 years in practice. She sees teens, adults, couples and groups for anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship concerns and low self-esteem. Alongside her general practice, she has a particular focus on clients managing medical issues and long-term health conditions such as chronic pain, diabetes, high blood pressure, IBS and cancer, helping them build skills to manage their condition and support their overall health. Her style is collaborative and holistic, paying attention to the link between mind and body and to each client's culture and faith. She draws on CBT, Gestalt, humanistic, interpersonal and mindfulness-based methods. She sees clients in person in Atlanta.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW

Wendy Yajna Brown is a licensed master social worker in Marietta with six years in practice. She works with adults, including older adults, who are dealing with depression, grief, anxiety, trauma and exhaustion, often after long stretches of stress, loss, displacement or illness. Many of her clients live with chronic pain or chronic illness, and some are carrying the weight of cultural upheaval. Her therapy is practical and gentle, with close attention to the mind and body, and may include behavioral coaching, mindfulness, nervous-system regulation and body awareness practices. She draws on ACT, CBT, DBT, compassion-focused work, IFS and somatic methods, and offers sessions in person in Marietta and online.

Counselor, MA, APC, NCC

Katherine Yates is an Associate Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor in Roswell. She works with children, teens, adults, couples and families on anxiety, stress, perfectionism, OCD, low mood, body image and eating concerns, trauma, life transitions, faith questions and relationship problems. Her approach is holistic, attending to body, mind and spirit, and blends skills-based tools with space to process one's story. She is trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy, a trauma-focused method for reprocessing painful memories, and also uses CBT, DBT, attachment-based and Christian counseling. She offers in-person sessions in Roswell and telehealth across Georgia.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Casey Jane Wawro is a licensed clinical social worker in Brookline who specializes in working with athletes. Her clients range from college competitors and professional players to those facing retirement or other identity shifts beyond their sport. She helps adults with anxiety, disordered eating and body image, trauma, injury, burnout and the pressure of high expectations, especially people who have rarely been encouraged to be vulnerable or talk about mental health. Working from a psychodynamic, relational and trauma-informed lens, she helps clients build a steadier sense of self beyond their athletic role. As a clinician of color, she offers culturally informed care. She sees clients in person in Brookline and online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, PsyD, LPC

Dr. Morgan Francis is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a doctorate in psychology who founded and runs Scottsdale Premier Counseling. Francis works with teens, adults, couples and families, with particular focus on body image and eating disorders, sexual health, anxiety, depression, self-esteem and grief, as well as relationship strain and life transitions. Sessions draw on CBT, DBT, IFS and mindfulness to understand and change the patterns that keep clients stuck. Alongside standard one-hour sessions, the practice offers extended two- and three-hour appointments for clients who want more time. Dr. Francis sees clients in person at the Scottsdale office, with an emphasis on privacy and a safe, supportive setting.