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Donna Fish, L.C.S.W.-R., is a licensed clinical social worker based in Manhattan, where she runs a private practice and is on the Faculty of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy’s CSAB division.
After graduating summa cum laude from McGill University in Montreal, Ms. Fish pursued a professional dance career that spanned 8 years in Toronto and New York City. She returned to the Columbia University School of Social Work graduating with honors, and she has achieved certification in EMDR, Level 4 TEAM CBT, and she completed a 3 year training program at the Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia in NYC.
Ms. Fish co-wrote the script and was the on-camera spokesperson for a show on anxiety disorders produced for LIFETIME TELEVISION. She was the expert for a show on body image on National Public Radio’s ‘The Infinite Mind’, and she has been interviewed for the parenting
column of the CBC Radio, Canada. With the publication of her book: Take the Fight out of Food: How to Prevent and Solve Your Child’s Eating Problems, Ms. Fish has been interviewed for many publications, including Better Homes and Gardens, Parenting, In Touch Weekly, Parent Guide News, First for Women, Today’s Parent, USA Today, USA Weekend. Interviews on multiple radio shows include NPR’s show ‘A Chef’s Table’ on WHYY, NYC’s 1010 WINS, NYC’s 106.7 lite FM’s current affairs show, as well as many national newspapers.
Ms. Fish continues to provide workshops to therapists, communities, parent groups and schools, in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders in children, adolescents and adults.
