More About Dr. Ellen Astrachan-Fletcher
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