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| About Abbie: |
An internationally renowned expert in the treatment of eating disorders, Abigail H. Natenshon, MA, LCSW, GCFP is a psychotherapist who has treated children, adults, couples, families and groups for the past 50 years. The author of When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder: A Step-by- Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers (Jossey Bass Publishers, 1999), and of Doing What Works: The Professionals’ Guide to the Treatment of Eating Disorders, Abigail is thefounder and director of Eating Disorder Specialists of Illinois: a Clinic without Walls. She hosts several informative web sites, including www.treatingeatingdisorders.com and empoweredkidZ. Read her four Online -Access chapters in several eating disorder textbooks published by Intech Publishers; London, England 2018, 2019, 2020. Find Abigail’s Intech chapter links online. Abigail has also published numerous articles in professional journals. |
She has appeared on national television as an eating disorder expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC, MSNBC, and National Public Radio. She is also trained as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and holds a Masters certification in the Anat Baniel Method for the treatment of infants and children. She has become a leader in the cutting-edge use an adjunctive movement-based neurophysiologic approach to augment more traditional approaches to treating patients with eating disorders and body image disturbances. |
Abigail also provides consultation for psychotherapists and other health professionals. |
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