Dr. Terese Weinstein Katz

Dr. Katz began her work as a psychotherapist working with children and families in 1988. Her doctoral studies focused on group treatment of binge eating and weight loss. As a clinical psychologist, she has specialized in eating disorders, working with the full spectrum of people who struggle with food and eating: those with anorexia, bulimia and binge eating; the overweight and obese; pre-surgical bariatric patients; children and adults; women and men.

Dr. Katz is a founding member of eating disorder professional groups in the Massachusetts Pioneer Valley region and the Northampton/Amherst 5-college area, as well as the area’s Family and Friends support group. For the past seven years, she has worked in private practice and  recently founded Diet Coaching Services and EatSanely.com. Prior to that, she worked in both inpatient and outpatient hospital settings, teaching students as well as treating a wide variety of clients and patients. She has consulted to child and family agencies and schools and is frequently requested as a speaker to both general and professional audiences. Her Food & Health column appeared in the regional lifestyle magazine Fuel.

Dr. Katz’ foremost objective in her practice is to help people find healthy solutions to their food and eating dilemmas. She believes that these solutions may differ from person to person, but that the goal remains the same: to find ways of eating that support health and peace of mind. She brings a broad range of skills and knowledge to this process, using cognitive-behavioral as well as other techniques and ways of understanding.

EatSanely.com aims to help people find those healthy solutions and, most importantly, to stay on track with them. “Change is a process”, not a one-time accomplishment, is a guiding principle.  In fact, most people have tried various ways of coming to grips with their diet or weight and feel frustrated that they can’t make certain changes once and for all. A diet coach can help you identify a good way of eating for your body and lifestyle. A diet coach can help you closely examine what kinds of obstacles usually keep you from succeeding with long-term changes–and to devise a plan for overcoming these obstacles. In other words, a diet coach will help you find and stay on a path to “eating sanely…..for a lifetime.”