Dr. Kari Anderson, DBH, LPC, MHC, CEDS-C.
Meet Dr. Kari, author, licensed professional counselor, coach and consultant, speaker and retreat leader.
Described as someone who “gets it”, Kari’s has a creative passion for helping others to achieve effective, authentic and abundant lives. She’s intuitive, emotionally engaged and has an innate gifting for modeling confidence. Her personal story makes her real and relatable. She values health, family and faith.
Prior to becoming a licensed professional counselor, Kari worked in the wellness industry, her undergraduate studies at Western Washington University in exercise physiology and nutrition. Finally addressing her own eating disorder, her recovery included becoming a healer. Earning her master’s in counseling psychology at Mount St. Mary’s University in Los Angeles led her directly into the eating disorder treatment industry as a licensed professional counselor, supervisor and administrator. After her doctoral degree in Behavioral Health in 2012 from Arizona State University, she co-authored her first book, Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Binge Eating: A Mindful Eating Program for Healing Your Relationship with Food and Your Body.
In 2021, she published her memoir, Food, Body & Love: But the Greatest of These is Love followed by its Companion Workbook, solidifying her as a recognized authority in the treatment of binge eating disorder (BED).
Dr. Kari Anderson
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At age 50, Kari earned her Doctor of Behavioral Health from Arizona State University. She has training in medical literacy and evidence-based treatment to offer lifestyle interventions to prevent and improve outcomes of chronic disease. Her clinical research in mindfulness-based interventions for binge eating disorder led her to co-author the book, Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Binge Eating, which is a mindfulness program for healing your relationship with food and your body. This led to her deep study of The Polyvagal Theory, including completion of the flagship Polyvagal Certification Course: Safety, Connection & the Human Experience. Kari integrates this science and compassion into her memoir; Food, Body & Love, but the Greatest of These is Love. Her programs based on this approach have brought new hope for those caught in the cycle of food obsession and compulsivity.
After three decades of treating eating disorders, Kari left the residential treatment setting of programs for The Rader Institute, Remuda Ranch and Green Mountain at Fox Run to open a small private practice, myEatingDoctor. Limiting her clients in order to bring her whole-hearted attention to their needs, she’s learned to balance her energies. In addition to her practice, she speaks internationally and leads retreats and workshops. Kari continues to write and learn and write more, including a blog for Psychology Today.
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Kari is faculty for Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She teaches treatment modalities and is passionate about teaching those pursuing careers in the treatment of eating disorders.
Kari is a licensed professional counselor in Arizona, Washington, and Vermont; she is an approved Consultant for the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners. She is an approved Supervisor for the state and a Consultant for Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS). She volunteers for the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp) at the state and national level.
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