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About Beth
I know how difficult dealing with weight loss can be, how isolated and defeated you can feel in your struggle; how it can affect your self-confidence and you're professional and your personal life. I understand how you may feel locked inside a body you don't recognize and don't like and that the real you may wait without hope to come out.
As a former costume designer for the theatre, I witnessed firsthand during costume fittings, how physically uncomfortable many actors felt about their bodies and how their assumptions about how they looked negatively affected them and inhibited their work.
As a personal image consultant, I continued to see people obsessed over tiny "flaws" as if looking through a magnifying glass rather than into a mirror. I discovered that those who couldn't express their best selves through the techniques I was teaching had deeper problems than I was equipped to help.
As a witness to the needless suffering of my clients I recognized a need to have a safe space for people to get to the root of the deeper issues about food, weight and body image. For the past ten years, I've been helping people create healthier relationships with food and their bodies; lose weight and keep it off so that they are free to get in touch with and reignite their innate creativity. If this is what you want to do, please call me.
My credentials...
- Masters of Social Work, Simmons College School of Social Work
- Since 2001, counseling weight loss patients as out-patients and in-patients at major hospitals, including gastric bypass patients and people struggling with medical complications as a result of their weight
- Received the Iris McRae Award for Creative Contribution to the Field of Social Work from Simmons Graduate School of Social Work for the group on body image and self-esteem called, Making Peace with Beauty," offered at Tufts New England Medical Center
- Clinical supervisor at a Community Services Institute
- Presented “Diagnosis and Treatment of Trauma for Renal Dialysis Patients” for New England Area Renal Social Workers annual conference, 2009
- Other presentations include, “Forgiveness; is it necessary for healing,” “Binge Eating, Body Image and Discrimination,” “Lasting Weight Loss Using The Tapas Acupressure Technique,” "The Nuts and Bolts of Mindfullness and Meditation"
- Certified Professional in The Tapas Acupressure Technique
- Trained in Internal Family Systems
- Trained in Dream Interpretation by Linda Yael Schiller, MSW, LICSW
- Member of the National Association of Social Workers and New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation
- Member of Brookline Business Forum
- 15 years experience in theatre, film, dance and print as a costume designer
If this is what you want to do, please call 617.522.6611 or send us an email. |
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