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Kari Anderson DBH, LPC, CEDS-S. Counseling, Coaching, and Consulting.
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Kari Anderson DBH, LPC, CEDS-S. Counseling, Coaching, and Consulting.
Dr. Kari is now trained in the Safe and Sound Protocol.
MY NEW WORKBOOK IS HERE.
let's take a look inside!
This workbook is a companion to Dr. Kari Anderson’s memoir—food, body, & love, but the greatest of these is love—which has helped thousands of people struggling with disordered eating to feel understood for the first time.
Both her memoir and its companion workbook were born of Dr. Kari’s desire to help anyone striving to find safety in their body, and to break free from obsessional cravings, impulsivity, and loss of control around food.

Dr. Kari Anderson
Counseling, Coaching, and ConsultingKari Anderson is the owner and therapist at myEatingDoctor.com, a counseling, coaching, and consulting business for eating disorder treatment. Having specialized in eating disorder treatment for 30 years, Kari has positioned herself as a respected clinician and leader in the field.
Dr. Kari Anderson

Counseling
Kari's counseling services are scientifically valid and supported by 30 years of practical experience. You will experience mindfulness based and trauma informed therapies to create an intrinsically motivated, highly skilled and connected life.

Coaching
All change is hard, but changing eating behavior for good is complicated. I will help you navigate through this process. Changing eating behavior involves the mind, body, and heart. When it comes to change this time, don't try harder, try different.

Consulting
This service includes supervision and training for professionals wanting an independent license in professional counseling or become a certified eating disorder professional or simply work with those struggling with food and weight concerns.
Blog.
Keep up with Dr. Kari Anderson's life.
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Eating Well is More Than the Food You Put on Your Fork
Eating well is more than the food you put on your fork. Here are five wishes for my clients when it comes to their relationships with food.
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The Difference Between Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating
My recent vacation to Ireland had all the vagal toning elements and practices to sustain such a life. Let’s review!
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Fear and Weight Loss
My recent vacation to Ireland had all the vagal toning elements and practices to sustain such a life. Let’s review!
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How My Vacation Was a Model for Living a Peaceful Life
My recent vacation to Ireland had all the vagal toning elements and practices to sustain such a life. Let’s review!
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When a Therapy Dog Dies: Grieving a Super Co-Regulator
How do we make our body feel safe? Here are my top 10 ways to help the body feel safe through self-care.
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“The Whale”: A Theme of Redemption
How do we make our body feel safe? Here are my top 10 ways to help the body feel safe through self-care.
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Safety Through the Self-Care Lens: 10 Ways to Help the Body Feel Safe
How do we make our body feel safe? Here are my top 10 ways to help the body feel safe through self-care.
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Christmas at the Country Inn
My Christmas took an unexpected journey with cancelled flights and an extended stay at a Country Inn. Read more about my lesson in gratitude.
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Five Tips to Help You Feel Well Throughout the Holidays
In today’s blog post, I want to share five tips to help you feel well throughout the holidays. Wishing you a merry Christmas!
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Creating a “Safe” and Connected Holiday Season
As a Polyvagal Informed Therapist, I see the world through a lens of safety. Here are three simple steps for a "safe" and connected holiday season.
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Considering the Use of a Harm Reduction Model for Loss of Control Eating Behaviors
Harm reduction involves employing limits and boundaries that keep us out of the weeds when we are the most vulnerable to our habitual brain.
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Cravings, Loss of Control, and Dietary Restraint
In recent years, I have encountered a subgroup of individuals in my eating disorder practice who have binge eating disorder and struggle with relentless food cravings that lead to loss of control.
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Curious About Recovery Podcast: Episode 13
Check out my latest podcast with Kirsten Hunneyball, host of Curious About Recovery. We talk about my personal experience as well as the important role of love in binge eating disorders.
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Body-Based Conceptualization of Eating Disorders
As a certified eating disorder specialist who uses body-based conceptualization and polyvagal-informed therapies, I now see eating disorder symptoms more clearly and compassionately.
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500 Rides: A Lesson in Resilience and Persistence
I recently hit a significant milestone on my Peloton bike: 500 rides. Impressive? Maybe but not for the reason you think. You see, I purchased the bike six years ago. Oh.
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Reflections On a 30-Year Career in Eating Disorders Treatment
Today, I want to share some reflections on what I’ve learned throughout my 30-year career in eating disorders treatment. As I do so, I also want to take a closer look at this year’s theme for NEDAwarenessWeek and consider some ways we can work together to See the Change, Be the Change.
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The Love Code
Our bodies were meant for love. We are hardwired for connection; as it turns out, it’s a biological imperative. Through an evolutionary lens, it ensures the perpetuation of the species through reproduction and safety. Taking a closer look into our neurobiology, our health and happiness depend on it.
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The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast: #51: Food, Body, and Love with Kari Anderson
Welcome Kari Anderson to our podcast! You can learn all about her at www.myeatingdoctor.com. She has also written a book and has a new one coming this year. Kari, Jill and Meredith discuss
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The SeasonED RD: And the Greatest of These is Love
Welcome Kari Anderson to our podcast! You can learn all about her at www.myeatingdoctor.com. She has also written a book and has a new one coming this year. Kari, Jill and Meredith discuss
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When Your Guests Don’t Eat Your Food | Can picky eating go too far?
Did you have friends or family show up for Thanksgiving or some other dinner party with their own Tupperware containers of food? And it was not a potluck! “Dietary restrictions” are a trend on the rise.
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When you cannot fit into your jeans…you might want to explore your genes
Many clients come to me with the triad of abdominal weight gain, binge eating, and depressive symptoms. Having these symptoms for a long time often leads to chronic conditions
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The School of Climbing, Paddling, and Peddling
Escaping the record-breaking stretch of 110 plus degree days in Phoenix, Arizona, my husband and I took to the foothills of the Bradshaw Mountains in Prescott, Arizona’s "mile-high" city
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What’s a Body Really For?
I recently attended a wedding in Sedona, Arizona, a majestic place with red rock mountain formations and blue-sky vistas. The wedding party was limited to 10 people and held outdoors due to the “new normal” of social distancing.
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Food, Fear, and COVID-19
Has isolation changed your relationship with food? There have been a lot of fat memes circulating on social media since shelter-in-place orders have taken effect. They fall into the offensive category for me, but I would like to focus on the
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Part 2: Holding Space for Clients Who Desire Weight Loss with Kari Anderson, DBH, LPC, CEDS-S
Kari Anderson joins us for another podcast on the subject of desire for weight loss or for clients who call themselves compulsive
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Part 1: It’s Ok to Take a Risk with Kari Anderson, DBH, LPC, CEDS-S
Welcome Kari Anderson to our podcast! You can learn all about her at www.myeatingdoctor.com. She has also written a book and has a new one coming this year. Kari, Jill and Meredith discuss
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On “This is Us,” Kate’s Weight Is Not the Real Issue
Last night, "This is Us" had its winter premiere on NBC. Fans have been waiting breathlessly for two months to find out how Kate, the character played by Chrissy Metz,
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New “Burn It Off” Public Health Campaign Is Bad Medicine
This week in problematic health news: The Royal Society for Public Health in the United Kingdom has called for food makers to add Physical Activity Calorie Equivalents
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Does the Response to “Peloton Wife” Show Weight Bias?
By now you’ve no doubt heard about Peloton’s infamous “Peloton wife” holiday ad. Maybe you saw the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update segment about it,
Testimonials
Tamara Z.
Parent
I am so grateful we found you. You have done an amazing job with helping our daughter. She smiles, she is dating, she is eating. She is flexible with exercise. She is doing great. You are very talented and exactly what we needed.
Debbie B.
Participant
I completed Kari’s program eight or nine years ago, and even though it took a while, my relationship with food and emotional eating has completely changed. I can’t remember the last time I overate, and I don’t think a whole lot about eating unless I’m hungry. I’ve relied on food for pleasure my whole life, and while I still very much enjoy good food, it’s far from the center of my life. I attribute much of this change to the lessons I learned from Kari’s group.
Dan LeMoine
Clinical Director
We cannot speak highly enough about Dr. Kari as a human and her work. She's our secret weapon when it comes to tackling the mental/psychological side of eating
Sophia A.
Participant
For anyone struggling with binge eating disorder, The Ultimate Eating Behavior Change Course is top rate. Kari and Nancy have clearly been tracking with what psychology and neuroscience have been teaching us about binge eating disorder, and they genuinely want to be helpful. They do a phenomenal job not only instructing about IFS, ACT, DBT, and CBT therapies, but also translating them into workable techniques.
Jenny Scheid, MA LPC
I had the honor of having Dr Kari Anderson supervise me right out of graduate school. She is creative, thinks outside the box, helps identifies your strengths and develops them. I credit a lot of who I am as a therapist to her influence, teaching and role modeling. Anyone being supervised by her will be well prepared in working with clients, become competent in the counseling field and personally blessed.
Travis Stewart, MA, LPC, NCC
Kari was instrumental in my training as an eating disorder professional. Her commitment to providing professional expertise in service of the well-being of clients has deeply influenced my own work over the years. She continues to be a leader in the field of treating eating disorders and caring for people.
Kari Is Offering Online Services!
Kari provides Telehealth Counseling Sessions in the state that she is licensed (Arizona and Vermont) and Coaching and Consulting services for eating disorder treatment and more everywhere (nationally and internationally) using a Zoom video platform.
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