One of the foremost experts on eating disorders in the country, Abigail Natenshon, MA, LCSW is a psychotherapist who for the past three decades has specialized in the treatment of eating disorders with individuals and their families.  The author of When Your Child Has An Eating Disorder: A Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers (Jossey Bass Publishers), Ms. Natenshon is the co-founder and director of Eating Disorder Specialists of Illinois: A Clinic Without Walls, an outpatient support network of health professionals and specialists on Chicago's north shore, providing consultation and professional services to eating disordered patients and their families. The organization offers individual, group and family psychotherapy, specialized nutritional counseling, medical services and psychopharmacology.

Abigail has appeared as an expert on the Oprah Winfrey Show, The John Walsh Show, the Fox News documentary, Eating Disorders: The Deadly Secret MSNBC, WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio, among others.   She is the creator of three educational and websites, www.empoweredparents.com, including upwards of 100 articles on eating disorders and healthy eating,  www.empoweredkidz.com, a kid-friendly site designed for children ages 7 - 17 with body image concerns and weight management questions, and www.treatingeatingdisorders.com, a site designed to educate health professionals in the field. These sites offer free personal consultation to parents, patients and other health professionals.

Natenshon runs on-going therapy groups for eating disordered adults and
young adults, as well as parents of eating disordered children. Trained as a
Feldenkrais practitioner, she offers patients with eating disorders and body
image concerns the option of holistic body-centered Feldenkrais treatment as
a unique and potent adjunct to the more traditional psychodynamic,
cognitive-behavioral, and family systems treatment approaches.  


Services offered: Individual, family, and group psychotherapy; patient
assessments and family consultations, clinical supervision for professionals
and students; Feldenkrais therapy and Awareness through Movement lessons

Specialties: Child and adolescent; Anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders,
Family Therapy, Group therapy, Parenting Issues, Self Esteem/Identity
Women's Issues, Marriage Counseling, Feldenkrais Method

Languages:  English

Client profile: Male/Female; Ages: Children, Teens and Adults

Payment/Conditions:  Insurance accepted in most cases.

Credentials/Training: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
Board Certified Diplomate (BCD), Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (GCFP); Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW); Academy of Eating Disorders (AED); National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Board Member-National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Diseases (ANAD)
 
License: IL Lic. # 149-000191

Listed: 1-25-03