Janet Goldstein-Ball is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Consultant (CEDS-C), and EMDR Certified.

Janet has been in private practice since 2012, and in her current location in Burbank since 2014. Her special interests are eating disorders, trauma, and working with creative professionals. In addition to her private practice, Janet was the Eating Disorder Case Manager at Kaiser Permanente's Department of Psychiatry in Los Angeles from July 2014 to January 2024, where among other duties she co-facilitated the clinic's "Emotional Overeaters Group." Her past experience and training includes working at eating disorder treatment programs, seeing clients at community clinics, and counseling adolescents at a school for students with severe emotional disorders and learning disabilities.

Janet is the co-author of the book "Straight Expectations," a memoir of her colleague Peggy Cryden's experiences raising two gay sons, one transgender, along with insights and support for involved family members and friends, clinicians, and the gender non-conforming community.

We discuss topics including:

• Binge eating disorder (BED) and emotional overeating is complex

• One of the goals of supporting someone who is struggling with binge eating disorder (BED) is to have intuitive eating (IE) as apart of treatment

• Binge eating is using as coping mechanisms when an individual is struggle with tolerating uncomfortable feelings

• Those struggling with (BED) need to do deeper psychological work before embarking on intuitive eating (IE)

SHOW NOTES:

www.jgbcounseling.com

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/janet-goldstein-ball-burbank-ca/112848

instagram.com/jgbcounseling

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