Services
Compulsive Eating Support Group
Victor J. Goldman, LCSW-R is a licensed clinical social worker who has been in private practice for 36 years in the Port Jefferson area. He is presently offering an ongoing support group for compulsive over eaters who want to establish a healthy relationship with food and a healthy lifestyle. The group meets twice a month in his office at 1050 Hallock Ave and includes a daily motivational e-mail and support thread for members to connect with one another on a daily basis.Mind-Body Fitness
Countless medical and scientific studies have proven that the most important factors to affect one's current health status are increased activity, weight training, aerobic conditioning, flexibility, and proper nutrition.Crew Lauterbach, PhD, LCSW-R, CHt is a Master Fitness and Strength trainer who will work with each client to develop an individualized program designed to achieve results. He utilizes a mindfulness approach in training so that each exercise is "meditation in motion". Dr. Crew's Mind-Body Fitness studio is a one-on-one training facility designed for functional fitness and strength training.
Hypnotherapy
Crew Lauterbach, PhD, LCSW-R, CHt is a certified clinical hypnotherapist and psychotherapist. He has assisted many clients to drastically change the way they eat as well and subsequently helped them to relax around food and lose weight.Hypnosis is a distinctive, trance-like state that is induced by an organized pattern of suggestions, usually verbal in nature, beginning with deep relaxation of the body and mind. When one allows themselves to become deeply relaxed, one can alter the way they eat, becoming aware of their impulses to eat for reasons other than physical hunger. This awareness also helps clients make changes in their behaviors based upon their intentions.
The Psychology of Eating and the Non Diet Approach
Terry Nathanson, LCSW-R is a licensed psychotherapist and director of EatingMatters located in Port Jefferson Station. His 25 years of mind-body expertise and specialization in emotionally based eating has helped the most experienced of dieters and challenged over-eaters renew hope in healing their relationship with food. Terry’s appetite re-training program offers you a simple, step by step non-diet approach that shifts eating when you are not really hungry, or not stopping when you are full to— you being in control!Terry also works with clients and trains professionals at several of the country’s largest Holistic and Eating Disorder Centers in changing compulsive eating patterns and cultivating a body-positive image.
Psychiatry
Jennifer Serrentino, MD is a board certified psychiatrist who trained at the New York University/ Bellevue residency program and currently has a private practice in Port Jefferson Station. She has experience treating anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder and has extensive experience treating anxiety and mood disorders that commonly run hand in hand with eating and weight related issues. She works collaboratively with other practitioners to assess if medication would be a valuable addition to help individuals achieve their treatment goals.Naturopathic Medicine
Roseanne Nenninger, ND is a Naturopathic Doctor who has been in practice in the Port Jefferson area since 1996. She has been working with patients to help them lose weight by using food as medicine, balancing their hormones and supporting the body naturally with supplements.Roseanne focuses on each patient as an individual with unique characteristics in health and disease. She also looks at the patient's diet, nutritional status, lifestyle choices and stress to help them manage their weight naturally.