Dr. Muhlheim’s Spring 2024 Training and Speaking Engagements

Flyer for the FEAST webinar "Promoting Life in the Treatment of Severe and Enduring Eating Disorders," featuring Dr. Muhlheim, Feb. 28, 2024.

Dr. Muhlheim is busy with several speaking and training engagements this spring. See where you can catch her below. On February 4, she’ll be a speaker at the 2024 Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders (FEAST) of Knowledge. Her topic is Stages of Recovery: Setting Parental Expectations. Registration is available through FEAST’s website. …

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Should You Let Your Teen Become a Vegetarian?

Purple Scrabble tiles spelling "vegetarian" above a plate of raw vegetables, for an article on teens becoming vegetarian.

By Katie Grubiak, RDN, and Lauren Muhlheim, Psy.D. We acknowledge that vegetarianism can offer benefits for both individuals and the environment. We also recognize that vegetarianism is embedded in some cultures and religions, and most children and teens raised in these cultures thrive. This article does not aim to debate the ethics of vegetarianism. Instead, …

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Group Therapy for Eating Disorders

Purple scrabble tiles spelling "Eating Disorder Group Therapy"

What is Group Therapy? Group therapy is when several patients are treated together in the same room—or as is often the case today, the same zoom meeting—as other patients with the same problem, usually with one or two leaders or therapists. Group Therapy can be helpful for people with eating disorders and their supportive loved …

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Paying for Eating Disorder Treatment

A man's hands pull money from a wallet, illustrating ways to pay for eating disorder treatment.

How Can I Afford Eating Disorder Therapy? When seeking treatment for an eating disorder, two of the first questions that often arise are: “How much will treatment cost?” and “How will I pay for treatment?” The answers to these seemingly simple questions depend on a great many variables. Eating disorders are complex illnesses that present …

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Are You Ready for Eating Disorder Counseling?

Drawing of a man in a purple sweatshirt looking at a wall calendar, illustrating readiness to start eating disorder counseling.

Maybe you’ve been thinking about getting help for a while but haven’t known where to look. Or perhaps someone has recently confronted you about your eating and you’re feeling pressured to get help now. Or maybe your problems have recently begun to feel worse. Even so, you’re still not sure it’s the right time. It’s …

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Meet Eating Disorder Therapy LA’s Prelicensed Associate Therapists

Eating Disorder Therapy LA provides training to prelicensed therapists (ACSW, AMFT, and APCC) in the Los Angeles area. Masters-level therapists work as employees while receiving extensive training in evidence-based therapy for eating disorders. Our clinical supervisor, Jonathan Dang, LMFT serves as primary supervisor of our prelicensed associate therapists. Mr. Dang is a certified eating disorder …

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This Halloween Let Them Eat Candy!

Two young children in costumes hold pumpkin pails of Halloween candy, illustrating intuitive eating and letting kids enjoy candy.

This was first written by Katie Grubiak, RDN in 2015 and published on a national blog site. It has since been removed and is posted here with permission by Katie Grubiak, RDN, dietitian for people of all ages. Katie’s Six Tips To Make Halloween Fun–and Help Raise Intuitive Eaters Halloween is a favorite holiday for …

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How to Support a Friend with ARFID

A woman rests her hand on the shoulder of another woman who appears distressed, illustrating support for a friend with ARFID.

Maybe you have a friend or coworker who is struggles to eat enough for reasons other than body image–or who eats differently. This struggle to eat or eating difference may be something more than a quirk, but something known as ARFID. It may be frustrating to try to have meals with them, especially if you …

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Meet Eating Disorder Therapy LA’s Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Muhlheim using the white board to train other eating disorder therapists

Eating Disorder Therapy LA provides training and supervision to prelicensed psychologists pursuing licensure in the state of California. Our postdoctoral fellows serve as part- or full-time employee therapists. Under the supervision of our licensed psychologists, they provide individual, group, and family therapy. Our postdoctoral fellows are supervised by Lauren Muhlheim, Psy.D., CEDS-C, and Elisha Carcieri, …

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