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:

Ellen Astrachan-Fletcher | Radically Open

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