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Meet Dr. Kelly Wakefield

I'm a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco. I see adults who binge eat and who are tired of the loop of rules, bingeing and shame.

My sessions are about what happens before, during and after eating, and the feelings underneath. I use CBT-E, a cognitive behavioral treatment developed for eating problems, and DBT-informed skills for the moments before a binge. I do not weigh clients or count anything in session.

Food has its own expert. I work beside a registered dietitian with her own practice, and we talk only with your written permission. If you may need more than weekly therapy, I will say so plainly and help you look.

Outside the office, I garden, walk the hills when the fog allows, and believe a long conversation goes better with something warm to drink.

  • Ph.D. in clinical psychology

  • Licensed clinical psychologist in California

  • Works beside a registered dietitian partner

  • Adults 18 and over

Dr. Kelly Wakefield

Licensed Clinical Psychologist

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  • Dr. Kelly Wakefield

    Licensed psychologist

    • Licensed Psychologist · CA Lic. 000000

    Sees adults in the office and by video for clients in California. Explains the method, and what each session asks of you, before you decide to go on.

What guides our work

Every person comes with their own history with food. A few principles hold for everyone.

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    Small steps you can keep

    Recovery is built from ordinary days. We pick the next step you can keep, not the biggest one you can imagine.

  • Two women hold hands while talking in black chairs beside a plant

    No judgment about food

    No food is good or bad here, and nobody is graded on a week. Curiosity does more than punishment.

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    A team around the food

    Therapy and nutrition are different jobs. You get both, from two people who are allowed to talk to each other.

  • 50 min

    Each session

  • Adults

    Aged 18 and over

  • California

    Where Dr. Wakefield is licensed

  • Video

    Or in the office

“Nothing about the first visit felt like a test. I said what I wanted, and Dr. Wakefield told me what she could and could not do.”

Helen R.Individual client

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