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  • Food
    5 Simple Tips For When Eating Is Hard
    5 Simple Tips For When Eating Is Hard
    How To Handle The Stress of “Feeling Fat” This Summer
    How To Handle The Stress of “Feeling Fat” This Summer
    What Can I Do? My Loved One Stopped Eating!
    What Can I Do? My Loved One Stopped Eating!
  • Body
    What You Need to Know About “Atypical” Anorexia Nervosa And Why It Is Dangerous.
    What You Need to Know About “Atypical” Anorexia Nervosa And Why It Is Dangerous.
    Why I Use the Word Fat, And Why You Can, Too
    Why I Use the Word Fat, And Why You Can, Too
    Are You Dreading Bikini Season? Here’s What Helped Me
    Are You Dreading Bikini Season? Here’s What Helped Me
  • Mind
    8 Simple (yet powerful) Ways to Maintain Your Recovery in College
    8 Simple (yet powerful) Ways to Maintain Your Recovery in College
    6 Tips on How to Open Up in Therapy
    6 Tips on How to Open Up in Therapy
    How This One Sentence Helped Me Recover From My Eating Disorder
    How This One Sentence Helped Me Recover From My Eating Disorder
  • Soul + Love
    Hate Uncomfortable Emotions? Here’s Why You Need to Embrace The Uncomfortable
    Hate Uncomfortable Emotions? Here’s Why You Need to Embrace The Uncomfortable
    Bully In My Brain: a Recovery Poem
    Bully In My Brain: a Recovery Poem
    I Tried to Run From My Grief. Here’s Why I’m Now Choosing to Embrace It
    I Tried to Run From My Grief. Here’s Why I’m Now Choosing to Embrace It
  • Podcast
    Your Purpose On Earth Is Not Your Body with Anna Sweeney, RD
    Your Purpose On Earth Is Not Your Body with Anna Sweeney, RD
    How Anger Can Fuel Positive Change with Maxine Ali
    How Anger Can Fuel Positive Change with Maxine Ali
    Being Stuck in Recovery to Moving Forward with Sarah Perry
    Being Stuck in Recovery to Moving Forward with Sarah Perry
Melissa Gerson, LCSW

Melissa Gerson, LCSW

Melissa Gerson, LCSW is the Founder and Clinical Director of Columbus Park, the leading outpatient eating disorder treatment center in New York City. Melissa is a native New Yorker whose “first career” was as a professional ballet dancer with the Miami City Ballet in Florida. After seven years, touring with the MCB company, Melissa retired from ballet and returned to her NYC roots to attend Columbia University as a Psychology major. She went on to earn a master's degree in social work at New York University. Melissa has over a decade of training and experience in treating eating disorders. She completed post-graduate training at some of the most reputable NYC institutions like NYU’s Psychoanalytic Institute, the William Alanson White Institute and NY State Psychiatric Institute. Melissa is a true leader in the eating disorder treatment community with a particular focus on using the most current and efficient evidence-based treatments like CBT-E, DBT and Family-Based Treatment for Children and Adolescents.

Want to Know Why You Can’t Stop Thinking About Food? The Answer Might Surprise You
Mind

Want to Know Why You Can’t Stop Thinking About Food? The Answer Might Surprise You

Do You Have to Be Skinny to Have an Eating Disorder?
Body

Do You Have to Be Skinny to Have an Eating Disorder?

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