Frustrated with Compulsive Eating?
It’s  Not About  Food
                It’s Not About Fat
                               It Is About  Feelings
 
 
Patricia Ravitz MFT

Over 30 years experience helping clients overcome their food and weight issues by identifying the underlying causes of their compulsive eating and learning new ways to respond to life's challenges and stresses.
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EATING DISORDERS  Are NOT ABOUT:
    •    Food
    •    Lack of will power
    •    Laziness
    •    Disregard for your appearance
    •    Self-indulgence
 
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WHAT DOES NOT WORK:
    •    Diets
    •    Will power
    •    Deprivation
    •    Self-hate
    •    Self-control
    •    Self-denial
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EATING DISORDERS  Are ABOUT:
    •    Obsession with food and weight
    •    Hidden anxiety
    •    Masked depression
    •    Denial of feelings
    •    Ineffective personal boundaries
    •    Relationship issues
    •    Early childhood trauma
    •    Putting others' needs before your own
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WHAT DOES WORK:
    •   Learning to listen to internal signs
    •   Dealing with underlying feelings
    •   Letting true feelings and needs
        inform your decisions and behaviors
Serving Marin County (including Corte Madera, Larkspur, Greenbrae, Kentfield, Ross, Mill Valley, Tiburon, Sausalito, San Rafael, Terra Linda, San Anselmo, Fairfax, Novato, Woodacre, Inverness, Pt. Reyes), San Francisco County, Sonoma County (including, Petaluma), San Francisco, and Alameda County (including Berkeley, Oakland, Alameda, Emeryville, El Cerrito, Pt. Richmond, Richmond).
 
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OFFERING
 
Individual psychotherapy
 
Ongoing support groups
 
1/2 day introductory
 
workshops