Gia Marson

Gia Marson
Dr. Gia Marson is a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Malibu, CA. Marson is also a consultant, integrative medicine health coach, and longtime meditation practitioner. She served as the founding director of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Counseling and Psychological Services Eating Disorders Program, a psychologist on the UCLA Athletic Care Committee, and recently helped launch the Nourish for Life outpatient program at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. She is also a frequent contributor to Goop, Psychology Today, and Recovery Warriors online publications - and author of The Binge Eating Prevention Workbook: An Eight-Week Individualized Program to Overcome Compulsive Eating and Make Peace with Food.

Blogs by Gia Marson

Experts at Home: Dr. Gia Marson on Eating Disorders

  In this Experts at Home conversation, Dr. Gia Marson joins Dr. Lisa Firestone to discuss the struggles many people face around food and body image as well as how current challenges are impacting eating disorders. Watch Now: Subscribe to PsychAlive (it’s free!) to see more Experts at Home.  

Learn More

Yes, Meditation Can Help Your Eating Disorder Recovery

“If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there’s room to hear more subtle things – that’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see… Read more »

Learn More

Helping Someone with an Eating Disorder? …Follow the Research

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. — Dalai Lama It can extremely scary, overwhelming and frustrating to provide assistance to a friend or family member who is trying to recover from an eating disorder. These illnesses are stubborn, life threatening… Read more »

Learn More
improve body image

Want to Improve Your Body Image? Try this…it’s not what you think

Instead of mercilessly judging and criticizing yourself for various inadequacies or shortcomings, self-compassion means you are kind and understanding when confronted with personal failings – after all, who ever said you were supposed to be perfect? –Neff, 2018 (1) If you are like most Americans, you often view your body as an object, rather than… Read more »

Learn More
Eating Disorders and Vaping: What's the Link?

Eating Disorders and Vaping: What’s the Link?

Vaping is very much on the rise in adolescents and adults. (1) While early research shows that e-cigarettes are less dangerous to health than traditional cigarettes, there is no published data yet on cancer risks or the potential long-term impact on our lungs or heart. Here are some of the potential health risks we do… Read more »

Learn More
overeat when feeling down

Do You Overeat When Feeling Down? Try this…

Most of us have found ourselves eating to soothe a negative mood. Although it can work temporarily, hopefully it is not your go-to or only strategy to make yourself feel better. You’re better off if you can rely on it as one of many ways of coping with feeling down. Some alternative possibilities for navigating unpleasant… Read more »

Learn More

Protected: A Whole-Person Approach to Make Peace with Food and Your Body

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Learn More