Our Values

Compassion

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We deeply care about our clients and their families and the challenges they face. Every individual has the right to experience love and comfort in their relationship with themselves, their bodies, and their food, and we understand both the fragility and power in the process of recovery. We are committed to creating a compassionate environment where individuals can safely explore their behaviors, thoughts and feelings with a kind awareness that restores the mind/heart/body connection and creates emotional resiliency for long term recovery.

Collaboration

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Long-lasting recovery becomes possible when we work together as a team. The integration of family and group therapy builds community, trust and strength in the healing process. We value working closely with outside providers and understand that building a community is essential to successful discharge planning and continued support for long term recovery.

Diversity

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At Amrita, we believe that all beings are created equally and that eating disorders stem from being conditioned to stop listening and honoring our diverse natural bodies and intuitive wisdom. We aim to embrace the diversity and complexity of each individual and to listen deeply to understand each client’s unique individual, familial, and cultural experiences that have informed their internalized judgment and self-harming behaviors. Our goal is to support clients in developing safety and authenticity in their relationship with their bodies and their food, celebrating their unique body and their right to be loved and accepted no matter the size of their body, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other quality that makes them feel unequal.

Our Team

Carol Normandi

Program Director | LMFT, CEDS, CMMT, C-EMDR
Carol has over 30 years of experience working with eating disorders, with extensive experience as an individual therapist, speaker, and facilitator of groups and workshops. Carol co-founded the non-profit Beyond Hunger which provided support groups for individuals with eating disorders and peer education and prevention. Carol has authored It’s Not About Food and Over It: A Teen’s Guide to Getting Beyond Obsessions with Food & Weight and is co-creator of the Body Love Cards. Carol also teaches mindfulness meditation groups and is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, Certified EMDR Therapist and Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher.
Lynne Martin

Nutrition Director | RD
Lynne has been working with individuals with eating disorders for over 25 years. She started her career at the Toronto General Hospital Eating Disorders program, a world-renowned treatment facility with a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy emphasis. After moving to the Bay Area, she became a founding member of New Dawn Eating Eating Disorders Program in Sausalito and then worked with La Ventana Eating Disorders center in San Francisco. In each Location Lynne was responsible for the development of the nutrition programming of the treatment centers. She currently works in private practice with a specialty in the treatment of eating disorders.
Jojo Hill

Therapist | AMFT
Jojo is an Associate Professional Clinical Counselor and an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist who began working in Bay Area eating disorder treatment centers in 2015. Jojo has been certified as a sexual assault crisis counselor with extensive experience providing crisis intervention and advocacy work for survivors of sexual assault and rape as well as for highly suicidal populations. Since 2020, she has worked at multiple centers providing long term individual and group counseling for teens and adults. She has received training in CBT and ACT, and is interested in the power of somatic interventions for healing from eating disorders and trauma. She currently works as a clinician in a group practice in addition to her role at Amrita.
Emily Fenster

Therapist | LCSW
Emily has been working in the field of mental health for 25 years. She has worked in a wide variety of settings, including school-based mental health programs, crisis intervention programs, and eating disorder residential and PHP programs. She has training in DBT, ACT, and CBT, and is passionate about using evidence based practices while also individualizing care.
Marisa Hernandez

Dietitian | RD
Marisa is a Board Certified Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition & Dietetics from San Francisco State University. In 2021, Marisa began working with adolescents and adults in eating disorder treatment. In her free time, Marisa also volunteers at a non-profit eating disorder recovery organization. Her work with clients seeking to have a healthy relationship with food and their bodies is built on her passion for providing skilled nutritional advice, her commitment to the health at every size (HAES) philosophy, and her dedication to using evidence-based knowledge.