More About Dr. Ellen Astrachan-Fletcher
Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Illinois
PsyPact provider Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT®)
My Specialities:
Clinical Specialties:
Eating Disorders
Women’s Mental Health
Transdiagnostic and Biotemperamental Approaches (DBT and RO DBT)
Anxiety in adults and adolescents
Depression in adults and adolescents
Family Systems
Supervision Specialties:
Eating Disorders (CEDS-C)
Women’s Mental Health
Transdiagnostic and Biotemperamental Approaches (DBT and RO DBT)
Anxiety in adults and adolescents
Depression in adults and adolescents
Training Specialties:
Clinical Trainings Available in person or virtually
Eating Disorders (CEDS-C)
Women’s Mental Health
Transdiagnostic and Biotemperamental Approaches
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Anxiety in adults and adolescents
Depression in adults and adolescents
Family Systems
My Books:
Using DBT to Break the Cycle and Regain Control of Your Life (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
At the root of bulimia is a need to feel in control. While purging is a strategy for controlling weight, bingeing is an attempt to calm depression, stress, shame, and even boredom. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bulimia offers new and healthy ways to overcome the distressing feelings and negative body-image beliefs that keep you trapped in this cycle. Learn More
If you’ve been in therapy for an eating disorder, such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, your past treatment may have focused on helping you control your emotions and contain your behaviors. However, research now shows that many people with eating disorders actually suffer from emotional overcontrol. Based on more than twenty years of research, this breakthrough workbook offers skills based in radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT), a proven-effective, transdiagnostic approach for treating disorders of overcontrol (OC). Learn More
For more information on Ellen’s work in Radically Open DBT please visit this link:
News Clips
Tips for Battling Through Election-Related Anxiety
Aired 10/29/20 at 7:30am on WFLD-TV (Fox Chicago)Tips for Handling Inauguration-Related Anxiety
Aired 1/19/21 at 6:30pm on WGN-TV (Chicago Channel 9)Body Image Anxiety after COVID
Aired 7/11/21 at 7:45am on WFLD-TV (Fox Chicago)COVID and Body Confidence: The impacts and ways to overcome
Aired 8/29/21 at 7:15am on WQAD (ABC)“Picky eaters: When parents should be concerned”
Aired 2/21/2022 at 7:10am on WLS-TV (ABC Chicago, Channel 7)The Dangers of Choosing Dieting as a New Year's Eesolution
Aired 1/19/23 at 9:10 am on WFLD-TV (Fox Chicago)National Eating Disorders Awareness Month
Aired 2/2/23 at 6:30pm on WGN-TV (Chicago Channel 9)EDs & Summer Stressors for Teens & Young Adults
Aired 6/5/23 at 6:30pm on WGN-TV (Chicago Channel 9)Back-to-School Anxiety & School Refusal
Aired 8/1/23 at 1:35pm on WVON Radio Chicago liveBack-to-School: How Parents Can Help Kids Manage Stress and Anxiety
Aired 8/5/23 at 8:40am on WLS-TV (ABC Chicago, Channel 7)Eating Disorder Awareness: Signs, Symptoms and Navigating Body Dysmorphia
Aired 2/21/24 at 10:18am on WGN-TV (Chicago Channel 9)
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