About Us

Who We Are
Eating Disorder Recovery Support
We are a nonprofit based in Northern California that is committed promoting recovery and wellness for those impacted by eating disorders by providing support, information, and education to individuals, families, professionals and the community at large regarding eating disorders and recovery resources.
Our Mission
The mission of EDRS, Inc. is to promote recovery and wellness for those impacted by eating disorders by providing support, information, and education to individuals, families, professionals, and the community at large regarding eating disorder recovery and resources.
Our History
EDRS, Inc. was co-founded by Michelle Minero, MFT and Haleh Kashani, PhD. as a grass roots response to the need for a community of professionals working with eating disorders. In 2000 the Mental Health Parity Law was approved in the State of California. To address the needs of the community, Petaluma Health Care district brought together local eating disorder providers to discuss eating disorder services in the area. Out of these professional gatherings and with support from PHCD Eating Disorders Recovery Support, EDRS was born.


This organization started with a small but dedicated number of professional and community volunteers meeting in Michelle’s Petaluma office. Over the years it has grown into a nationally recognized non profit organization.
EDRS Inc.‘s mission has been to promote community awareness and professional training through local annual conferences, and to increase access to treatment through fundraising for the Treatment Assistance Fund. We rely on the continued support, volunteerism and generosity of our community to fund this valuable assistance and to keep EDRS and its mission alive!
Our Goals

Prevention
Promote public awareness by providing community outreach and education regarding eating disorders prevention, identification, and treatment.

Referrals & Resources

Education

Treatment Funds
Provide assistance to individuals in need of financial support for pursuit of treatment through ongoing fundraising activities.
Board of Directors

Lindsey Wert
President
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In her spare time she can be found supporting worthy causes such as EDRS, at the beach or in the mountains with her Dog River and working on personal growth. Lindsey believes in the beauty of connections with all living beings.

Theresa Carpinito Kira
Board Member & Treasurer
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Theresa earned her doctorate in clinical psychology at the Georgia School of Professional Psychology in Atlanta. She received training in college counseling and eating disorder settings as well as conducting ADHD, learning disability, and other psychological evaluations.
Theresa is seeking certification in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy and is excited about the ways that this modality can be a helpful tool in treating eating disorders and trauma.
Theresa has a background in media studies and is passionate about investigating the ways in which various media formats can negatively influence body image, writing her dissertation on the potential for Facebook to have an impact on body image dissatisfaction in young women. She aims to help people view social and traditional media images with a more discerning eye, to find ways to celebrate body positivity and size diversity online, and to ultimately find joy, meaning, and fulfillment in their real lives offline.

Corinne Dobbas
Board Member &
Secretary
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Corinne works with clients individually and in groups. She is also the host of The Body Image Podcast.
Corinne began her work in body image, disordered eating, and eating disorders, after spending some time working with clients through the traditional weight-normative approach in the first few years of her career (where the emphasis is on weight and weight loss when defining health and wellbeing). It was here that Corinne realized something had to change, as this approach felt unethical, uncaring, and most of all, unhelpful for her clients. After all, even if we all ate and moved the same, different body shapes and sizes would still exist. With that shared, Corinne has spent the latter part of her career engaged in clinical supervision and various trainings to enable her to competently and successfully work with individuals struggling with food and body image concerns, disordered eating, chronic dieting, and eating disorders. Today, Corinne works from a weight-inclusive approach (where the emphasis is on viewing health and wellbeing as multifaceted and on reducing weight stigma). She is currently working towards certification to become a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian (CEDRD) through the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp). In her work, Corinne uses a variety of tools, techniques, resources, and therapeutic approaches to help her clients nurture a healthy relationship with food, mind, and body.
Corinne graduated cum laude from Boston University’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences with a Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Sciences and completed her dietetic training at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. She received a Masters of Science from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. Further professional training was through the completion of Wellcoaches Core Coach Training Program, Body Image Training for Clinicians, Nutrition Counseling for Eating Disorders, Clinical Approaches To Treating Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder, and The Original Intuitive Eating Pros® certification process to become a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, among others. Adding to her unique background, Corinne completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training through h3 Yoga in Marin County, California and has taught nutrition at the university level. Corinne frequently speaks on body image, embodiment, intuitive eating, Health at Every Size® (HAES), and eating disorders.
Today, Corinne resides in Marin County, California with her husband, three dogs, cat, and little girl.

Arin Bass
Board Member /
Sponsorship & Fundraising
Arin Bass, LMFT, MA, has worked with children, adolescents, adults, and families in a clinical setting attending to the issues of eating disorders, body image, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, life stressors and transitions, and relationship issues. Arin has extensive experience working with the eating disorder population in a variety of treatment levels, from Inpatient to Residential treatment, Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient. She also has a private practice in Corte Madera.
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Arin utilizes a multidisciplinary theoretical approach with emphases on Psychodynamic, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Family Systems models. She has tremendous passion for working with people who struggle from eating disorders. Arin believes that people have the capacity for change and that a trusting therapeutic relationship along with personal accountability are important components for recovery from an eating disorder.
She is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the International Association of Disordered Eating Professionals, and Eating Disorder Recovery Support. Arin is working towards becoming a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist through IADEP.

Marcella Raimondo
Board Member / Past President
Marcella Raimondo, PhD, MPH is a passionate and spirited clinical trainer speaking from her heart on multicultural issues in eating disorders since 1995. Marcella herself recovered from anorexia nervosa over 20 years ago.
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Marcella received her B.A. from UC Berkeley, and Master’s Degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan. Marcella’s desire to address eating disorders drove her to pursue her doctorate in clinical psychology, receiving her PhD in 2012. She completed her post-doc internships at an eating disorder outpatient program and an eating disorder residential program for adolescents.
Marcella currently serves as a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY # 27037) in Kaiser Permanente’s eating disorder clinic in Oakland. Marcella also serves as adjunct faculty at UC Berkeley Extension Program.
In 1997, Marcella worked with About-Face, a nonprofit organization that addresses media impact on body image serving as the Director of Media Literacy until 2005. Today she is on the About-Face Board of Founders and a consultant. She is also on the Advisory Board for the Association of Size Health and Diversity (ASDAH), on the Board of Eating Disorder Recovery Support (EDRS) as Past President and serves as Co-Chair of the Academy of Eating Disorders Diversity Equity and Inclusion committee.
Marcella trains in Kajukenbo at Hand to Hand Kajukenbo Self Defense Center in Oakland. She holds a second degree black belt and enjoys the exploratory path her training gives her. Her recovery and her martial arts training inspires her dedication to multicultural body nurturance and community celebration. For more information about Marcella’s trainings, go to marcellaedtraining.com

Elissa “Liz” Woodruff
Board Member / Former President
Dr. Elissa“Liz”Woodruff is a licensed psychologist specializing in treatment of anxiety and depression, relationship difficulties, and body image and eating disorders. She works primarily with adults, teens, and their families.
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Dr. Woodruff earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Texas and trained at Stanford University where she specialized in the treatment of young adults and developed expertise in working with eating disorders, members of the LGBT community, and substance abuse.
Dr. Woodruff is is certified in Family Based Therapy for Eating Disorders, also known as Maudsley therapy and is currently in the process of obtaining certification in Emotion Focused Family Therapy for eating disorders. She has taught eating disorder treatment techniques to predoctoral interns and postdoctoral fellows at Stanford University.
Dr. Woodruff also provides consultation, outreach services, and educational seminars to the community, schools, and graduate students training to be psychotherapists. Please find more about her at www.drelissawoodruff.com

Shelly Kamboj
Board Member
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In her spare time, she enjoys spending a night playing board games or having a living room dance party with her partner and friends, getting lost for days in a puzzle, going for a hike while exploring the outdoors, cooking a large Indian meal with her mother or watching a movie with her cat Pliny in her lap.
She is always here to help, so please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Ashley Acle
Board Member
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Ashley completed her B.A. at Swarthmore College and her Master of Family Therapy at Drexel University. She is a member of several professional associations including the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) and their Continuing Education Provider Approval (CEPA) Committee, International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp) and their African American Eating Disorder Professionals and Black, Indigenous, People of Color (AAEDP-BIPOC) Committee, and the Northern California Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy (NCCEFT).

Katie Peterman
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Katie integrates mindfulness-based, cognitive-behavioral, relational and feminist therapies in her practice. She views building a trusting and caring therapeutic relationship as essential to bringing about change in therapy. Katie is passionate about supporting her clients in discovering and appreciating who they truly are and making choices that feel authentic and respectful to themselves and their bodies.
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Katie is a certified Be Body Positive Facilitator and she is also certified in Family-Based Treatment (FBT) for eating disorders. Katie is working toward becoming a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist through the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IADEP).
Advisory Board

Haleh Kashani
Co-Founder &
Advisory Board Member
Haleh Kashani, Ph.D. is the co-founder of the EDRS, Inc. and currently sits on the Advisory Board. She is a licensed psychologist in clinical practice for over 25 years. Dr. Kashani specializes in the treatment of eating disorders with adults and adolescents.
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Dr. Kashani is currently in private practice in Marin County and works at the Outpatient Eating Disorders program at Kaiser Permanente in San Rafael, which she created and directed for the past 10 years. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Minnesota with Cum Laude honors in 1983 and her Doctoral degree in clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in Berkeley in 1988.
In addition to her practice, Dr. Kashani has been actively involved in training professionals in the field of eating disorders as well as providing support and education to parents and community groups on this topic. For more information regarding her private practice, speaking engagements, or professional training, please contact her at http://www.halehkashaniphd.com.

Michelle Minero
Co-Founder &
Advisory Board Member
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Michelle is also the co-creator of a 17-week online course titled, Building the Foundation for Self-Love, as well as a 9 week e-course titled, The Self-Love Diet Food & Eating guidelines. She is the co-founder of the online Love Warrior Community as well as the 31-Day Self-Love Diet Writing Challenge. Michelle is a SoulCollage facilitator and a sought after trainer, presenter and workshop facilitator. Her dream is to see a world filled with people who love themselves and their bodies.

Adrienne Ressler
Advisory Board Member
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To get involved or learn more, please contact us!
EDRS CONFERENCE 2021
Critical
Conversations
Addressing the Needs of our Trans Communities with Eating Disorders
“EDRS has been an exceptional foundation that provided funds to help me recover from my eating disorder and severe trauma as a child and teen. EDRS held me when I had no family or outside support. I have been able to give back to EDRS through my recovery and years of volunteering. My life has forever been changed by these wonderful leaders and women, and with their support I am now a licensed therapist specializing in eating disorders and trauma. EDRS holds a legacy of community, grassroots and love. I am forever grateful. I owe it much of my recovery and life. With love and heart.”
Lindsey Wert, LMFT
Board Member & Treatment Fund Recipient
Our 2020 Sponsors
In lieu of our annual conference this year, the generous partners below contributed their financial support to our online fundraiser, Promoting Connection Through Isolation. Thank you to each of them for making our campaign a success and helping provide treatment funds to those in need!
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