The Lotus Collaborative
Dr. Liz is the Founder and CEO of The Lotus Collaborative, eating disorder intensive outpatient and day treatment programs in Santa Cruz and San Fransisco, CA, and virtual program online.
She/They have been a mental health provider for 22 years, an eating disorder program director for 14 years, and a Founder & CEO for 10 years.
Dr. Liz is one of the few eating disorder treatment Founders and CEO, run by a gender fluid woman, that is also a practitioner and clinician.
As a clinician that has personally recovered from an eating disorder, and is also the CEO, Dr. Liz believes in the quality of the treatment programs offered at The Lotus Collaborate.
Professionally, Dr. Liz has provided individual, group, and family eating disorder therapy at every level of care including inpatient, partial hospitalization, day treatment, intensive outpatient, and individual therapy.
She/They have been a mental health provider for 22 years, an eating disorder program director for 14 years, and a Founder & CEO for 10 years.
Dr. Liz is one of the few eating disorder treatment Founders and CEO, run by a gender fluid woman, that is also a practitioner and clinician.
As a clinician that has personally recovered from an eating disorder, and is also the CEO, Dr. Liz believes in the quality of the treatment programs offered at The Lotus Collaborate.
Professionally, Dr. Liz has provided individual, group, and family eating disorder therapy at every level of care including inpatient, partial hospitalization, day treatment, intensive outpatient, and individual therapy.
Eating Disorder Treatment and Recovery
We believe in meeting people where they are at and assisting them with the goals they have. In providing eating disorder treatment, these are few essential beliefs The Lotus Collaborative has:
1) You don’t have to want to recover in order to get help or seek treatment. Definitions of what “recovery” looks like vary from person to person and this is something we will discuss. Our initial meetings will help us determine your recovery goals and develop your unique treatment plan.
2) If someone wants to fully recover from an eating disorder, we believe it’s possible. We believe that people struggling with eating disorders can fully recover by breaking the addictive cycle, learning healthier coping skills, and not only move on but thrive!
3) We believe in full recovery because I conceptualize eating disorders as a learned coping skill and an addictive-additive behavior, behavior that once used to help the person cope but over time, took more control of the person’s life, health and happiness.
4) Learned behaviors can be unlearned and replaced with new life sustaining habits. These new behaviors eventually replace the eating disorder with more sustainable coping skills and people discover they are no longer motivated by the eating disorder.
5) Recovery is worth it. We have seen the havoc eating disorders can wreck on a person's emotions, health, finances, relationships, and general well-being. But... we also know that people can fully recover and finally get their life back. Living a healthy, vibrant life is much more sustainable and joyful.
6) We feel it is a honor to support people that don’t want an eating disorder to be part of their lives anymore. We have witnessed so many clients do the epic recovery work, and go on to live healthy and enjoyable lives.
1) You don’t have to want to recover in order to get help or seek treatment. Definitions of what “recovery” looks like vary from person to person and this is something we will discuss. Our initial meetings will help us determine your recovery goals and develop your unique treatment plan.
2) If someone wants to fully recover from an eating disorder, we believe it’s possible. We believe that people struggling with eating disorders can fully recover by breaking the addictive cycle, learning healthier coping skills, and not only move on but thrive!
3) We believe in full recovery because I conceptualize eating disorders as a learned coping skill and an addictive-additive behavior, behavior that once used to help the person cope but over time, took more control of the person’s life, health and happiness.
4) Learned behaviors can be unlearned and replaced with new life sustaining habits. These new behaviors eventually replace the eating disorder with more sustainable coping skills and people discover they are no longer motivated by the eating disorder.
5) Recovery is worth it. We have seen the havoc eating disorders can wreck on a person's emotions, health, finances, relationships, and general well-being. But... we also know that people can fully recover and finally get their life back. Living a healthy, vibrant life is much more sustainable and joyful.
6) We feel it is a honor to support people that don’t want an eating disorder to be part of their lives anymore. We have witnessed so many clients do the epic recovery work, and go on to live healthy and enjoyable lives.