#156: Advice for Parents with Greta Angert

Greta Angert received a Bachelor's degree from Columbia University and a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from California State University Northridge. She completed her two year clinical training at the Maple Counseling Center and is certified in several trauma treatment modalities.

Greta has worked at numerous outpatient, inpatient and residential eating disorder programs as a primary therapist. Greta holds the highest level of certification for EMDR (level 3). She is a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders, the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and was a Founding Board Member and Treasurer of the Los Angeles board of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals.

Greta has spoken at local and national eating disorder and mental health conferences. She is a supervisor for marriage and family therapist interns and is committed to helping people understand, accept and nurture their bodies and minds in order to maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle.

We discuss topics including:

• How to work with parents when your child has an eating disorder

• Understanding FBT (Family Based Therapy)

• The importance of being realistic and honest with the parents she works with

• Parents supervising meals when their child has anorexia nervosa

• The parents job is to protect their child form diet culture and to not have diet culture in their home

SHOW NOTES:

• www.gretaangert.com

• https://www.instagram.com/gretaangertmft

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