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Lisa Bograd

CREDENTIALS/DISCIPLINE: Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist , Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology

BOARD CERTIFIED: Yes: Board of Behavioral Sciences

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Number of years treating patients with eating disorders: Almost 20

Number of patients with eating disorders I treat annually: 10-15

EDUCATION, TRAINING, and EXPERTISE: I received my Masters Degree from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 1997 and received my license as a Marriage and Family Therapist in 2003. I have worked in numerous agencies and training sites and I have been in Private Practice for about 18 years. I have worked in Elementary, Middle, and High Schools as an intern doing play therapy with children and groups with teens. I have worked in Substance Abuse Treatment, running groups for multiple offenders, doing assessments and individual therapy with people with substance abuse disorders, and I also worked in several Residential Treatment Programs for substance abusers, among them New Bridge Foundation and the Henry Ohlhoff House. I have worked in Sexual Abuse treatment, co leading groups for non offending parents, running a group for boys who had been molested, and doing individual play therapy with children who had been molested. Prior to being licensed, I did a special 2 year training at the Community Institute for Psychotherapy in their Eating Disorder Specialty Track. I have worked for many years in Eating Disorder Treatment. I ran groups for women with eating disorders at the Women’s Health Resource Center in SF for a number of years, I have lead groups for Parents and Partners of people with Eating Disorders. I have done Workshops for Parents on How to Help Foster Healthy Eating Habits and a Positive Body and Self Image in Children. I have done Trainings for Clinicians on how to Assess and Treat People with Eating Disorders. I also worked as a lead therapist at Casa Serena, an outpatient treatment center for Eating Disorders.

TREATMENT PHILOSOPHY:

I am very interested in the power of relationship as a healing agent of change. It is my belief that the symptoms with which people struggle, whether those symptoms manifest in compulsive drug or alcohol use, through binging and purging, self starvation, or compulsive overeating, these symptoms are a manifestation of earlier relational wounding and privations and it is through a safe, nurturing, and attuned relationship that these wounds can be healed. I am also very interested in the unconscious and how it too can manifest in symptoms, as well as in dreams, fantasies, and relationship dynamics. I pay attention to repetitive patterns and I try to help my patients understand these patterns as a form of communication about themselves that together we can try to understand and shed light on so that these deeply entrenched and often problematic patterns can shift and change, can open up into more meaningful and embodied ways of being and experiencing.

FEES: Cash, Personal Checks, Venmo, Paypal. No insurance accepted. Superbills provided

  • Contact by phone or e-mail
  • Not wheelchair accessible

LANGUAGES:

  • English

POPULATION SERVED:

  • Adolescents
  • Adults
  • Athletes
  • Children
  • Couples
  • Ethnic Minorities
  • Females
  • LGBT
  • Males

CONDITIONS TREATED:

  • Abuse
  • Addictions
  • Affective Disorders
  • Anorexia Nervosa
  • Binge Eating
  • Body Dysmorphic Disorder
  • Bulimia Nervosa
  • Co-Morbidity
  • Compulsive Exercise
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Night Eating Syndrome
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Orthorexia
  • Overeating
  • PTSD
  • Weight Stigma

TREATMENT APPROACHES:

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Couples Therapy
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
  • Individual Therapy
  • Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
  • Objects Relations
  • Self Psychology and Attachment Based Theories

TREATMENT SETTINGS:

  • Outpatient
  • Phone Counseling
  • Telehealth (Will hopefully be back in person Fall 2021)