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Melanie Greenfeld
Registered Psychologist, Member of the Australian Psychological SocietyLocation: Leederville (45 Oxford Close)
E-mail: mel.g5@bigpond.com
Phone: 0411 033 918
Melanie works in private practice as well as conducting group therapy workshops.
She specializes in emotional eating behavior and aims to assist clients to break free from their struggle with food and weight. She does this by helping her clients to feel an enhanced sense of self-acceptance and self-worth, enabling them to care for themselves in a nurturing rather than a punitive way.
Melanie works with her clients to explore and understand the emotional reasons for their compulsive eating, and assists them to develop more effective methods of dealing with these emotions. They are then better able to regulate their eating behavior and develop healthy life-style habits.
Melanie encourages her clients to reject dieting, release their guilt and work with their bodies. She has completed intensive one-on-one training with me on my scientific principles and coaching methods.
What the experts say...
"Dear Amanda, I just wanted to write you an email to thank you for changing my life in such an important way. I was an overweight child and obese as a young adult consequently most of my life has been about battling with my weight. After losing weight with a popular weigh loss group when I was 19 I thought I had solved the problem but I was wrong. Post weight loss I could no longer lead a normal life if I wanted to stay thin. I would breakdown in tears every time I had to go out for dinner because I knew it would result in more weight gain and I began to exercise obsessively and get furious if anything interfered with my grueling regime. This abnormal behavior did not help my weight problem though and after a year of gradual gain I began cycles of starving myself, which would inevitably be followed by a binge. This went on for two years with me trying to hide my problem from people. Within 4 years I had gained 8 of the 20 kilos I had originally lost. A year ago I read your book and at first I thought it must be too good to be true because the only way I had ever known weight loss to happen was through starvation and suffering. Six months later however I decided I had nothing to lose by giving it ago. The change has been gradual. Firstly I threw out my scales then I started drinking full cream milk (something I have longed to do since I was 12 years old when I was first forced to swap to skim milk because of my weight problem). After this I worked on being able to gauge when I was full (I never had a problem gauging hunger). This took a long time because I was so used to eating carefully weighed portions. In six short months, though, the binging has stopped, I no longer have a breakdown at the thought of going out to dinner and I have already lost 4 kilos. So thank you Amanda, your wise words have given me the courage to change for good and now I know I will never have to be fat again."