Kimberly Adamis is an LA-based Photographer/Artist whose work has been exhibited in many galleries around the world including Rome, Venice, London as well as here in the US. View her gallery and current projects here:

www.kimberlyadamis.com

Lindsey Wert, LMFT, CEIP-MH
She/Her/Hers
Psychotherapy, Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, EMDR and Ecotherapy 
318 Western Avenue
Petaluma, CA 94952
EDRS Past President 
Edrecoverysupport.org
Website: selflovetransformations.com
Phone: 707-780-2496

Amy Ferraro started Kick ED’s Butt on Jan 2020 as a way to provide positive support for individuals with eating disorders. Kick ED’s Butt is on Facebook as a page and a support group, Instagram, Twitter, and a webpage with a blog. Amy Ferraro began having an eating disorder in high school and continued in private for 30 years before she went to treatment at the Renfrew Center in 2018 for binge eating disorder and Atypical Anorexia. 

Deborah Reidy Kelch is a poet, writer, and spiritual seeker. In 2020, she retired after 40 years as a health policy researcher, advocate and consultant to the California Legislature. Deborah has a grown daughter and lives with her husband in Elk Grove, California.

www.deborahkelch.com

Angelica Rowell is a singer, actress, writer, and arts educator based in Los Angeles, California.  She is adamant about the power art has to change perspectives, and strives to create works that open doors for marginalized peoples while educating others in hopes of creating a more understanding and just world. Angelica has created workshops for youth and adults alike on creating original works that make a statement (“Arts for Activism”) and shedding light on Black musicians who have been erased and overlooked throughout history (“The Evolution of Black Music”). As a creative, Angelica has performed in musicals and operas, including The Industry’s Sweet Land, sung as a featured soloist for the LA Philharmonic’s centennial celebration, debuted various plays with theatre companies across Los Angeles, and served as a staff writer on AMC Allblk’s upcoming TV show, SNAP. 

In addition to her creative work, Angelica manages the social media page for Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid, is a member of the arts non-profit Black Light Arts Collective (BLAC), and serves as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Consultant on the board of Bay Area based theatre company, Poison Apple. She holds bachelor’s degrees in theatre and classical voice from the University of California, Irvine. 

www.angelica.rowell.com,
Instagram: @angelica.rowell

Mindy Gorman-Plutzer brings 2 decades of experience to her private practice as a Certified Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner and Eating Psychology Coach.

Mindy’s life experience and training inspired her to create a framework that combines functional nutrition, positive psychology, and mind/body science; introducing a compassionate resolution to physical and emotional challenges resulting from chronic and complex health issues, as they relate to Eating Disorders.

She’s the author of The Freedom Promise: 7 Steps To Stop Fearing What Food Will Do TO You and Start Embracing What It Can Do FOR You.

IG is @thefreedompromiseAttached i
links for the masterclass -https://stopfearingfood.byhealthmeans.com/?idev_id=23572&evt=01 

McKenzie Cerri is a co-founder of Graydin. Graydin’s mission is to revolutionise the ways we support, empower and connect with our next generations so they can thrive at school and at home. Together with more than 220 schools and Universities worldwide, Graydin has been at the forefront of the coaching movement in education since 2011. 

McKenzie has over 15 years of experience in coaching, teacher training and learning content creation for teachers, students and parents. She is a Co-active Coach, a certificated practitioner and coach of NLP, and a Mytho-Self Facilitator. Prior to Graydin, she was a youth coach, and real estate developer and worked closely with Maudsley Hospital eating disorder unit to develop content for suffers and carers. Born in California, now based in London, UK, she took her first personal development course at age nine. 

Tessa Gordon, MA, LMFT, RYT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Yoga Teacher, certified Nia Instructor, Advanced Pole Instructor, and certified Body Project facilitator, member of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, the Academy of Eating Disorders, Facial Pain Association, Diversability Leadership Collective, ReAuthoring Teaching Community, and Yoga for Eating Disorders community. Invisible disability warrior, eating disorder awareness advocate, and activist in the fight against weight stigma and body discrimination. Combining her clinical and lived experiences with her passion for social justice, Tessa works has been actively involved in the eating disorder field for over a decade and has provided therapy at a variety of community counseling centers and treatment facilities. Now in private practice she specializes in eating disorders, non-visible disabilities, chronic illnesses, and trauma. As a registered Yoga, Nia, and Mindful Movement Instructor, Tessa helps people reclaim body-focused forms of movement by shifting language and intention to foster an inclusive and empowering environment for all bodies. Described by her clients as the anti-therapist, Tessa is passionate about working closely with individuals, and their loved ones to discover and connect to their hopes, values, passions, and interests, and support them in re-(dis)covering what their “anti-eating disorder” life will look like. In addition to her work as a therapist, Tessa has provided trainings to other professionals on narrative therapy and eating disorders, the use of therapists lived experience and insider knowledge, mind-body movement and its role in body image acceptance/tolerance, Additionally, Tessa has spoken about stigma and bias in healthcare, the therapeutic relationship, and eating disorder recovery.  Tessa is a proud plant parent to approximately 150 indoor plants (and growing…she’s given up counting), and dog mum to the BEST German shepherd ever, Aspen. Want to meet him? He makes appearances in her sessions both over zoom and in Walk + Talk sessions. She loves hiking, yoga, peanut butter, sushi, carrot cake (my own recipe only) and bubble baths. 

website: www.TessaGordonTherapy.com 

instagram: @EmbodyingHope

upcoming events/news: Yoga 4 ED Recovery Group will be starting, also an outdoor movement based group. 

Ever since becoming a mom in 2019, breaking the cycle of dieting and body-image ancestral trauma has been a priority for Claire Schwartz. After finding Laurelee in her early 20s and starting her healing journey from bulimia, Claire noticed destructive relationship patterns to food and weight in her mother and grandmother. 

She’s doing her best each day to model and teach intuitive eating, food neutrality, body appreciation and emotional wisdom to her two children Audrey, 2.5 and Harrison, 4 months. She’s also incredibly proud of her mother for jumping on the intuitive eating train. Better late than never. 

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