Fran Weiss, LCSW-R, BCD, DCSW, CGP, Psychotherapist
Just because it is hard to do, does not mean it is impossible to achieve
About Fran Weiss
Fran is an Associate Clinical Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, NYC, in the Departments of Psychiatry and Environmental Medicine & Public Health. Her Private Practice is in Manhattan.
Central to her current work is the exploration of how painful life experiences that occurred in the distant or recent past—like loss, neglect, and abuse (verbal, emotional, or physical)—play out in interpersonal relationships with friends, family, co-workers, and in finding a partner.
She is well known for her pioneering work connecting early attachment derailments and developmental trauma with dysregulated eating leading to obesity and body image issues. She trains, teaches, and runs workshops nationally on this subject.
Currently she works with the emotional fallout from the new weight loss drugs—the GLP-1s. On behalf of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA), she was invited to participate in the American Psychiatric Association's review of their Guidelines for Eating Disorders. Fran is the creator of B.I.T.E. The Body Image Transformation Experience® Workshop.
For three decades Fran has served as the Senior Psychotherapy Consultant to the New York Nutrition and Obesity Research Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in affiliation with Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medical College in Manhattan, originally at St. Luke’s Hospital, NYC, co-directed by Xavier Pi-Sunyer, MD.
She is a Resource Specialist for the Center for Sleep Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center with a focus on the connection between anxiety and insomnia.
She is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Psychotherapy (APA) and also Group, the journal for the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, and recently served as Guest Editor of the American Journal of Psychotherapy's June 2021 Special Issue on Group Psychotherapy.
Fran is on the Board of Directors of the International Board for Certification of Group Psychotherapists of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) and chairs its Standards Committee. In November 2021 she was named a Fellow of AGPA by its Board of Directors.
As an expert in group therapy, she is part of the training program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, NYC, for psychiatry residents, where she co-leads process groups of residents and fellows, focusing on group and individual dynamics and interpersonal communication.
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