Compassionate, experienced and mindful therapy for individuals, couples or families interested in cultivating joy and meaningful relationships with ourselves, each other, and the natural world.
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Services
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Individual Therapy
Couples Therapy
Family Therapy
Eating Disorder Recovery
EMDR
Meditation Coaching & Groups
Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy
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Carol has been working with eating disorder recovery since 1988 when she co-founded Beyond Hunger with Laurelee Roark, a non-profit that provides support groups and eating disorder prevention education. In 1998 they published their first book It's Not About Food, based on their own recovery and their work with eating disorder clients. They later published Over It: A Teens Guide to Ending the Obsession with Food and Weight, and Body Love Cards.
Carol is currently the Clinical Director of Amrita Eating Disorder Treatment Center, an intensive outpatient treatment center for teens and adults in eating disorder recovery.
Carol integrates HAES™ (Health At Every Size) which promotes weight inclusivity, health enhancement, respectful care, eating for well being, and life enhancing movement.
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Carol is a certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher. She facilitates bi-monthly Wise Mind-Wise Body meditation groups through her private practice and is a teacher for Banyan Together, an online meditation community.
The Wise Mind-Wise Body process is designed to support the development and integration of mindfulness as a path for personal transformation and skilled attunement to our deepest nature. Meditation, self-reflection and self-inquiry are used to help you deepen your own practice and integrate it into your everyday life. Wise Mind-Wise Body is a practice of moment to moment observation of the mind/body process that helps you acknowledge and handle all aspects of life experience - pleasure and pain, fear and joy - with less stress and more balance.
Carol offers bi-monthly groups that integrate guided practice (experiential), group process, and support for outside work.
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Carol is a certified Buddhist Eco-Chaplain, trained to support people in developing healthy, compassionate, and mutually supportive relationships with each other and with the natural world. Eco-chaplains provide support to (re)connect with nature and face contemporary socio-environmental crises with wisdom and compassion.
About Carol
Carol is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and works with individuals, couples and families with a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges. She has extensive experience as an individual therapist, speaker, and facilitator of groups and workshops. Carol is a certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS), certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher (CMMT), certified EMDR practitioner (C-EMDR), and certified Buddhist Eco-Chaplain.
Carol is currently the Clinical Director of Amrita Eating Disorder Treatment Center, an intensive outpatient treatment center for teens and adults in eating disorder recovery. Carol has been serving eating disorder clients since 1988 when she co-founded Beyond Hunger with Laurelee Roark, a non-profit that provides support groups and eating disorder prevention education. In 1998 they published their first book It's Not About Food, based on their own recovery and their work with eating disorder clients. They later published Over It: A Teens Guide to Ending the Obsession with Food and Weight, and Body Love Cards.
Carol integrates HAES™ (Health At Every Size) which promotes weight inclusivity, health enhancement, respectful care, eating for well being, and life enhancing movement. Carol received the Golden Bell Award for her work in developing curriculum and facilitating classes for the Emotional Literacy Program for middle school students. Carol is deeply committed to the process of practicing compassionate awareness and self-inquiry to strengthen our capacity to cultivate joy, healthy relationships with ourselves and each other, resilience, and especially resilience in the face of climate change.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
As a therapist, I understand the importance of respecting, valuing and even cherishing each of our own unique ways of expressing ourselves physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I respect differences in age, color, body sizes and shapes, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, neurodiversity, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make all of us unique. I am particularly dedicated to challenging societal norms that perpetuate discrimination and harm based on body size and shape. I understand that fostering a safe and just environment requires my own education, reflection, responsibility and growth and the need to continuously examine my own biases and privilege.
Forms & Info
Insurance
Services may be covered in part by your health insurance or employee benefit plan. Because I am an out of network provider, please check your coverage to find out if your mental heath insurance benefits cover an out of network provider and what percentage they will cover. I will provide you with a bill for services rendered to provide to the insurance company for reimbursement.
Rates
Rates are $200 - $250 per 50-minute session.
Payment
Cash or checks are accepted for payment.
Reduced Fees
Reduced fee services are available on a limited basis.
Publications
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It's Not About Food
It’s Not About Food gives you the tools and the understanding to break the destructivencycle of bingeing, dieting, and self-starvation. By using the proven techniques developed in the Beyond Hunger workshops, you will be able to transform your relationship not only with food, but also with your body and yourself. These exercises and meditations will help you determine the differences between what your body craves to eat, what your mind thinks you should eat, and what your emotions are driving you to eat. This non-diet approach goes beneath the symptoms of eating disorders and explores the cultural pressures women face, along with the physical, emotional, and spiritual concerns that create the need to overeat or undereat in the first place.
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Over It
Every year, desperate parents try to save their daughters from starving themselves to death. Yet every year, more girls eat less to look like their favorite supermodels. With this sobering fact in mind, Carol Emery Normandi and Laurelee Roark developed this book based on their ongoing workshops and the feedback of hundreds of young women. They look at the behaviors that may lead to eating disorders and the cultural, emotional, and physical reasons girls obsess about weight and eating. They go on to offer girls and their parents a map and a method for finding a realistic and livable balance. Stories and quotations from girls who have struggled with eating disorders give the book immediacy, and exercises and writing suggestions steer girls toward a healthy self-image and wholesome eating patterns.
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Body Love Cards
These inspirational, empowering and playful meditation cards are designed to create a healthy relationship with your body, food and self. Their gentle reminders and daily practice Inspire body love, intuitive eating, emotional nurturing & loving communication.
Throw them into a bowl and pick a different one every day.With daily practice, these cards will take you on a healing journey,bringing you back home to your internal wisdom, loving self, and sacred body.
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Audio CD
Freedom From The Obsession With Food & Weight Guided Audio Imagery from the book: It’s Not About Food .
With the soothing sounds of music and Carol and Laurelee’s voices, this CD or tape will guide you through each guided imagery exercise in the book It’s Not About Food. It is an excellent aid if you are interested in practicing the guided imagery exercises in the book, allowing you to personalize and internalize the process of recovery.
Contact
Voicemail: (415) 488-1104
email: carolnormandi@comcast.net
fax: (888) 832-5288
