CREDENTIALS/DISCIPLINE: LMFT
BOARD CERTIFIED: BBS
Number of years treating clients with eating disorders: 30
Number of clients with eating disorders we treat annually: 50
EDUCATION, TRAINING, and EXPERTISE: Amrita EDT is an IOP comprised of therapists and nutritionist with education, training and expertise in the eating disorder field.
Carol Normandi received her MS in Counseling from San Francisco State Universitiy. She has spent 30+ years working with eating disorders, with extensive experience as an individual therapist, speaker, and facilitator of groups and workshops. Carol is the co-founder of the nonprofit Beyond Hunger which provided eating disorder support groups and prevention education. She has co-authored It’s Not About Food: End Your Obsession with Food & Weight, and Over It: A Teen’s Guide to Getting Beyond Obsessions with Food & Weight. She is co-creator of the Body Love Cards. She currently runs Amrita Eating Disorder Treatment Center. Carol is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Certified EMDR Therapist.
TREATMENT PHILOSOPHY: Amrita EDT provides a safe and compassionate treatment program that integrates evidence based skills training (CBT, DBT, ACT), psychotherapy, nutrition therapy, art therapy, group therapy, family therapy, and meal group.
At Amrita, we work with a multi-disciplinary team that is comprised of therapists and dietitians that have extensive experience treating eating disorders and use evidence based treatment. We understand that eating disorders are caused by a variety of psychological, biological, interpersonal, and social factors, and that each individual is unique in their own history and etiology of their eating disorder symptoms.
We are committed to creating a compassionate environment where individuals can safely explore their behaviors, thoughts and feelings with a kind awareness that enables them to identify their needs, stabilize disordered eating behaviors, develop new healthy behaviors, restore the mind/heart/body connection, and create emotional resiliency for long term recovery.
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Our program offers intensive outpatient treatment programming for individuals who are needing a higher level of care than outpatient can provide, or for individuals with eating disorders who are stepping down from residential or Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) levels of care. We work from a multi-disciplinary team approach with therapists and dietitians that have extensive experience treating eating disorders. We provide individualized support with individual nutritional and psychotherapy sessions, along with group therapy modalities that are clinically proven to substantially reduce eating disorder symptoms and behaviors.
FEES: Cash, Credit Cards, Payment Plan, Personal Checks, Insurance, Sliding Scale
INSURANCE: Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross, Beacon, Cigna, Magellan, MHN, United Behavioral Health/Optum
Will bill on behalf of patient
Not an out-of-network provider
Provides Superbills