Our staff of licensed psychologists, registered dieticians,
registered art therapist, pre-doctoral interns, post-doctoral
fellows and fitness instructors meets weekly to coordinate
clients' care. Our staff actively collaborates with
mental health professionals who are involved in the
client’s care outside of the program.
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Sandeep Atwal, MA is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at Pepperdine University. She also holds a Master’s in Psychology with an emphasis on marriage and family therapy. She is currently a pre-doctoral intern at Wright Institute Los Angeles. |
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Jeff Dooley, CPA, MBA is the Program Administrator of the Adolescent Program. He will be receiving his Masters in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University in May 2008 and is currently working toward MFT licensure. He has been working with adolescents and adolescent issues on a volunteer capacity for the last twenty-five years. For the last twenty years, Jeff has been involved in the lives of high net-worth and entertainment industry families assisting them with communication issues and helping them to better understand the underlying issues of eating disorders. His philosophy stresses continued life functioning with as little disruption in the child’s life and the integration of the entire family in treatment. Jeff earned his Bachelor of Science degree in business from Fairfield University and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in both California and New York. He has also earned a Masters in Business from the Stern School of Business at New York University specializing in International Finance.
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Cheryl Craig, RD, has been a Registered Dietitian for 17 years and has experience in all levels of care for eating disorder treatment including inpatient, residential, day treatment, and intensive outpatient care. Through her private practice in Sierra Madre, CA, Cheryl works with individuals and groups to help them reestablish a positive relationship with food, weight and body image through nutrition therapy and support and ultimately guides them towards eating intuitively. Cheryl's background also includes many years working with nutritionally compromised patients in acute care hospitals, long term care, home health and hospice and as a consultant in physician offices. Cheryl currently is the Nutrition Therapist for the Susan B. Krevoy Adolescent Eating Disorders Program at The Wright Institute Los Angeles. |
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Perrin Elisha, Ph.D is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Westwood, CA and a staff member with the Susan B. Krevoy Eating Disorders Program. She specializes in the treatment of health, body image, and eating concerns and has written in the area of body and health experience and its relationship to psychological wellbeing. Her past experience also includes work with traumatized children and a general psychology practice. Dr. Elisha holds a doctorate in clinical and depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Dr. Elisha currently leads the Thursday night process group and works with individual patients in private practice. |
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Andrea Forbes, MA is a doctoral intern at the Wright Institute Los Angeles. She currently co-leads the multifamily process group and provides case management and individual psychotherapy for patients of the Susan B. Krevoy Eating Disorder Program. She is attending Rosemead School of Psychology where she obtained a masters degree and is completing her doctorate in clinical psychology. In addition, she completed addiction counseling certification in the state of Colorado. |
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Lynne Friedman-Gell, Ph.D. has been with the Susan B. Krevoy Eating Disorder program since 2000. She is a group leader for WeightWorks, our weight loss support group and an administrative coordinator for the SBK program. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology and her postgraduate training at the Wright Institute Los Angeles. Lynne has been a certified drug counselor since 1996. In her private practice as a registered psychological assistant, Lynne works with clients suffering from addiction and eating disorders, as well as other clinical problems (e.g. depression, anxiety, pre-marital and marital counseling, etc.). |
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Robyn Goldberg, R.D., INC. Private Practice. Robyn began her career at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles as the in-patient dietitian in the Department of Cardiology. Over the last ten years she has developed her own private practice in Beverly Hills, CA, where she specializes in medical conditions, disordered eating, preventative nutrition and athletes maximizing optimal nutrition. Robyn promotes opportunity to excel in personal health and fitness maintenance through a lecture series in association with several medical groups. She servers as a Nutrition Consultant for the Celiac Disease Foundation as well as an Advisory Board Member for Healthy Dining Restaurant Guide. Robyn currently is the Nutritional Counselor for the Susan B. Krevoy Eating Disorders Program at The Wright Institute Los Angeles and teaches the nutrition classes for the Motion Picture Wellness Program. |
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Hillary Goldsher, Psy.D, M.B.A is a post doctorate fellow at the Wright Institute, Los Angeles. Hillary holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology and a masters in business from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. Her special clinical interests include eating disorders, couples therapy, women’s fertility issues and working with people in the creative arts and entertainment industry. |
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Erin Harris, MA is a predoctoral intern at Wright Institute Los Angeles. She is currently completing her last year of her clinical psychology doctoral program at Argosy University, Orange County. She has completed a psychological assistantship at College Hospital in Cerritos, California and is continuing as a psychological assistant at the College Hospital Partial Program in Alhambra, California. |
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Sarah Rachel Isenberg, Certified Yoga Instructor is certified by Baron Baptiste in Power Yoga, Glenn Black in Iyenger Yoga and Gurmukh Khalsa in prenatal yoga. She has been teaching yoga for over seven years and practicing for over twenty. She is a second generation yoga instructor her mother, Esther teaches Tri-Yoga in Massachusetts. Sarah is a former figure skater, a black belt in karate and former US National Fencing Champion. She is a graduate from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She worked and studied at Harvard University in the Graduate School of Education for five years in the psychology department. |
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David Laramie, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral trainee at the Wright Institute Los Angeles in his second year of training. He completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at California School of Professional Psychology in May 2007 following completion of his dissertation study on mobile phone behavior. David is a process group leader in the Susan B. Krevoy Eating Disorder Program and conducts intake assessments for our program. |
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W. Preston Lear, MA, LCSW is a doctoral intern at the Wright Institute Los Angeles. He has a master's degree in social work from New York University and practiced as a psychotherapist for four years before attending The Wright Institute in Berkeley for a doctorate in clinical psychology. Preston has had a special interest in working with athletes and those in the creative arts. His area of concentration involves family and group dynamics. |
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Nina Newman, MA is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at Fielding Graduate Institute. She is currently a psychology intern at the Wright Institute. She has a background in neuropsychology with both adolescents and adults. Her special interests include family relationships as well as how biological issues intersect with and impact psychological functioning. |
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Myra Pomerantz, Ph.D., PSY 15885 is the Clinical Director at the Wright Institute Los Angeles. She is a psychoanalyst affiliated with the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and works with adults and couples. She has particular interest in mother/daughter relationships, as well as in eating disorders. Dr. Pomerantz works with the SKEDP as a process group leader. |
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Bonnie Reich, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral fellow at the Wright Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology as well as a Master's in Public Health from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her special interests are in eating disorders, addictive behaviors, and the use of positive emotions, like humor and compassion, as well as creativity and spirituality in the treatment of self-defeating behaviors. |
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Thia Spezialy, MA, MFTI, ATR is a registered art therapist and a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern. Thia earned her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her MA in Marital and Family Therapy and specialized training in Clinical Art Therapy from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Thia began her clinical work with eating disorders as an art therapist in an inpatient eating disorders program, and she then served as a primary therapist in an adolescent residential treatment center for eating disorders. Thia leads the weekly art therapy group and is in the process of establishing a private practice. |
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Donna Wolfe, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist. She is Program Coordinator for our IOP Program and has been on our clinical staff since 2001 as an individual therapist and Leader of one of our two Process Groups. She also leads a Saturday Support Group for those with eating disorders who are unable to participate in the full Intensive Outpatient Program. She received her Psy.D. from Pepperdine University and her postgraduate training at the Wright Institute Los Angeles. |
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