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| Alison Ross, MA, LMFT | Mira Rocca, MA, LMFT | Ilana Friedman, Life Coach |

Alison Ross MA, LMFT
Founder & Psychotherapist Specializing in Eating Disorders

Alison Ross created Lotus Path as a culmination of a dream that started over a decade ago, when she herself recovered from her struggle with eating and body image. With newfound healthy ways of living, coping, and thriving, Alison began a personal and professional mission to foster the growth and healing of others. Alison embraces psychotherapy as a core component of healing, and also values therapeutic experiences that occur outside of the therapy room. Her unique approach encourages clients to develop connections to supportive others, community, nature, movement, breath, art, and charity. Alison takes a systems approach involving family members and significant others in the change process whenever possible.

Alison is an disordered eating specialist with over ten years of education, training and experience. She earned her Masters in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University. She completed internships in private practice under Carolyn Costin, LMFT, at the Eating Disorder Center of California and at the Wright Institute Los Angeles/Susan B. Krevoy Eating Disorders Program. In 2007, Alison developed and launched the Susan B. Krevoy’s Adolescent Eating Disorder IOP. Alison has been an activist in the prevention of eating disorders. She developed an eating disorder prevention workshop that was offered at Beit T’Shuvah Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center, at high schools through Los Angeles and at Curves for Women. Alison is a registered yoga instructor and earned her RYT from Yoga Alliance and a certificate from Sacred Movement Center for Yoga & Healing.

Alison was formerly an Internet Marketing expert who led the strategy and implementation of online marketing campaigns for companies including America Online/Digital City Los Angeles, USA Networks, Perks.com and Fearless Entertainment. Alison received her Bachelor of Arts in Advertising from Pepperdine University.

Alison lives in Woodland Hills with the loves of her life, her husband, two children, and her dog.

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Mira Rocca MA, LMFT
Psychotherapist Specializing in Eating Disorders

Mira Rocca is an experienced and licensed marriage and family therapist who is dedicated to helping individuals overcome problems with food, body image, exercise, depression, anxiety and family issues. Being well aware of the struggle in dealing with eating disorders, she want to help the client see that there is a better way to live and guide individuals on a path to reach their fullest potential in life. Using a combination of techniques, Mira works towards eliminating disruptive behaviors while concurrently exploring the roots of these actions. Her passion lies in helping people strengthen their sense of self, using movement and meditation to deepen their connection to the world, and incorporating positive behaviors to take the place of old, harmful ones. Mira is also very committed to helping young families raise healthy minded children in such a complex world. Her goal is to help people understand, accept and nurture their bodies and minds in order to maintain a balanced and more fulfilled lifestyle.

Mira received her Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University. She began her professional career almost a decade ago working with troubled children and adolescents, as well as chronically mentally ill adults. For the last six years Mira has been working and learning under Carolyn Costin, LMFT at the Monte Nido Treatment Center.

Ilana N. Friedman
Life Coach
Specializing in Food and Body Issues & Eating Disorder Recovery

Ilana knows what it's like to live with an eating disorder, and what it's like to recover from an eating disorder. She developed her practice to help clients, as well as their family and loved ones, recover the life they want and deserve. Ilana's training background is a combination of a traditional Life Coaching program, a specialized internship and on-going training in the treatment of Eating Disorders. She is familiar and comfortable working in conjunction with a wide variety of therapies including CBT, DBT, acceptance and commitment, narrative therapy, etc...as well as assisting clients using meal plans and those using intuitive eating. Ilana has worked with clients at Carolyn Costin's Eating Disorder Center of California, and was hired to develop and launch the experiential programs at A New Journey in Santa Monica, CA. She was the first Life Coach to become a board member of the Los Angeles chapter of iaedp (international Association Of Eating Disorder Professionals), and have co-presented with colleagues at schools and universities. Ilana has a strong commitment to the expansion of support services for anyone in the fight for recovery.

Ilana offers:

Individual sessions - you can come to my office or I'll meet you in your home, office, school, at the grocery store, department store, restaurant, yoga class or anywhere support is needed.
Support groups, meal outing groups
Short-term or long-term assistance
Supplemental support to those who are in day treatment or an IOP program
Ongoing phone and/or text check-ins
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