Eating Disorders in Special Populations (PDF)

Dr. Jonna Fries is a psychologist and director of Counseling and Psychological Services at California State University, Los Angeles. She is an adjunct faculty at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, a certified integrative body psychotherapist, a certified IBP instructor, an EMDR-approved consultant, and chair of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP) consultation group. She maintains a private practice in Los Angeles where she focuses on trauma and eating disorders. Dr. Fries is a recipient of the Cal State Los Angeles Distinguished Women Award and the IAEDP Member of the Year Award. Her doctoral project was the development of a multicultural group therapy treatment for those at the intersection of binge-eating disorder, obesity, and body image distress. Her doctoral concentration was on diversity, which she continues to teach at the graduate level.

Dr. Veronica Sullivan is a licensed psychologist and group therapist at Kaiser Permanente in Portland, Oregon. Prior to this, she was a tenure-track professor and staff psychologist at California State University, Northridge, where she served as a faculty advisor and group therapy coordinator for the Joint Advocates on Disordered Eating (JADE) peer education program. Dr. Sullivan has presented at national conferences on multiple topics and was a participant at the 2014 National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) conference. She earned her PhD from the State University of New York at Albany, where her dissertation research examined the intersections of emotional eating, coping, and obesity. Her clinical specialties in private practice include body image and eating disorders, with a focus on the treatment of bingeeating disorder.