ELIZABETH SCOTT
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Professional Practice Statement
After 37 years in psychotherapy, my passion for this work remains profound. I offer my full presence and attention, focusing deeply on what matters most to you. In our often competitive and judgmental world, therapy becomes a radical act—one of self-reclamation and profound healing.
Together, we will cultivate powerful inner resources: self-compassion that runs deep, fierce self-love that protects, humility that opens doors, and confidence that moves mountains. These qualities weave more joy, purpose, and authentic connection into the fabric of your life.
As an anti-racist therapist, I am committed to addressing systemic inequalities and power imbalances as an integral part of caring for clients from all communities. This lens informs every aspect of my practice.
Areas of Specialization
I work with adults navigating the profound territories of grief, loss, life-threatening illness, and transformative change. I also specialize in eating disorders and body image healing—work that often extends to entire family systems, sometimes spanning three generations. Many families seek my support when children are struggling with their relationship to food and body.
For a quarter-century, I have dedicated myself to training fellow mental health providers in eating disorder treatment, expanding our collective capacity for healing.
Additionally, I have spent 25 years walking alongside activists and community organizers, supporting them in sustaining their vital work while nurturing the bravery and passion that drives their vision of a more just world.
Elizabeth Scott, LCSW, CEDS-S
Elizabeth Scott is an educator and psychotherapist whose life’s work centers on healing disrupted embodiment, navigating grief, cultivating deep compassion, and fostering meaningful social change.
Leadership in Body-Positive Movement
As Co-Founder and Director of Training for The Body Positive, Elizabeth spent 25 transformative years developing and sharing the vibrant Be Body Positive model—a revolutionary approach designed to end eating disorders and build thriving, body-positive communities. Through this work, she has guided countless educators and students toward liberation from diet culture and harmful body standards.
Clinical Expertise and Innovation
A Certified Eating Disorders Specialist (CEDS-S) and IAEDP-approved supervisor, Elizabeth has dedicated her career to training mental health providers and dietitians in specialized eating disorder treatment. She is the founder of the Big Hearted Embodiment model, an approach that integrates compassion, somatic awareness, and healing.
Wisdom Through Lived Experience
As a cancer survivor, Elizabeth brings profound personal insight to her work with life-threatening illness, death, loss, and transformation—themes that have woven through her practice and teaching for decades. This lived experience deepens her capacity to accompany others through their most challenging passages.
Activism and Spiritual Practice
Grounded in Socially Engaged Buddhism, Elizabeth seamlessly weaves spiritual practice with social action. She works extensively with community activists—both individually and in groups—helping them discover the social, psychological, and spiritual resources needed to sustain their vital work amid overwhelming suffering.
A Bay Area psychotherapist since 1988, Elizabeth continues to serve her community with unwavering dedication to healing and justice.