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Faculty

Agnes Thora Gudmundsdottir

Agnes Thora is one of the founders and a board-member of Matarheill, a rights movement for food addicts in Iceland.

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Amanda Leith

Amanda is an Addiction Counselor, a Certified Food Addiction counselor (CFAP), FAI/ACORN Certified Food Addiction Professional and CENAPS-trained Advanced Relapse Prevention Specialist (ARPS)

Dr Vera Tarman, MD, M.Sc. FCFP, ABAM

World-renowned Food Addiction Expert, Authored seminal Food Addiction literature

Dr. Guttorm Toverud

Ph.D. in Counseling and Counselor Education; Addictions, Masters; Agency Counseling

Esther Helga Gudmundsdottir MSc.

Master of Managing Health Services.
Food Addiction Counselor and Professional Certified by the European Certification Board
Chair of the Food Addiction Institute
Certified from the IC&RC and European Certification Board as a Certified Addiction Professional, Clinical Supervisor, and an ACORN Food Addiction Professional.
Specialties: Food Addiction; Treatment; Teaching.
Clinical Hypnotherapist Dip.CH., CPTF, ST Cert.
Trauma-based Regression and Parts therapy about Addictions, Trauma, Stress, and Anxiety.
Founder and Director of the MFM Center; Treatment Center for Food Addiction in Iceland.

H. Theresa Wright, MS, RD, LDN

H. Theresa Wright, MS, RD, LDN, is the founder and Director of Renaissance Nutrition Center, Inc.

Karla Osborne

Karla is a Registered Therapeutic Counselor (in Canada) specializing in the treatment of food addiction. Having began her journey in food addiction recovery with INFACT, she currently works as a group facilitator, educator, counsellor and recovery coach for SHiFT Recovery by Acorn (foodaddiction.com). Karla has been working with people in a variety of contexts and capacities since 2007. Her breadth of personal and professional experience is an asset to clients as she incorporates her understanding of addiction, human growth and development, trauma, mind-body connection (somatics) and relationships (codependency recovery) in her work. Karla’s honest, calm and compassionate style is often reassuring to clients as she supports their physical, emotional, spiritual and mental recovery from food addiction.

Marty Lerner

Founder and CEO of the Milestones in Recovery’s Eating Disorder Program in Cooper City, Florida. A graduate of Nova Southeastern University, Dr. Lerner is a licensed and board certified clinical psychologist who has specialized