08/06/03

Brooke Megdal, MA

Thank you for visiting my web site.  I am a psychotherapist intern and a yoga teacher specializing in the healing of eating disorders.

I use both psychotherapy and yoga to help people heal their eating disorders. Yoga is an exquisite healing tool for working in particular with eating disorders because it viscerally works to transform unhealthy mind body relationships.

Yoga is a practice of awareness. Simply put by becoming more aware of the body one becomes more aware of more of themselves; which is in itself healing.  By bringing western and eastern experience together we are essentially combing to make a more expansive and integrated healing tool. I think talk psychotherapy, because it  leaves out the body, recreates an imbalance similar to that going on in an eating disorder; the body is once again an object rather than an experience. Yoga gives one the opportunity to experience the body, and the natural wisdom it holds. Yoga gives one the space to intuitively experience oneself and permission to be rather than do.

Santa Monica Counseling Center

2210 Santa Monica Blvd., suite C

Santa Monica, CA 90404

(310)968-1572

Fee per session $50.00.  Sliding scale available if needed.

supervised by Robert Furse, MFC22900