Dr. Melissa Freizinger

Clinical Director, has extensive training and experience in the treatment of eating disorders and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Dr. Freizinger received her Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Leslie College in Cambridge, Massachusetts and her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Freizinger was a Psychology Intern on the Eating Disorder Unit at Laurelwood Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. In this capacity, she was responsible for the assessment, treatment and aftercare planning of adults and adolescents with eating disorders. Additionally, Dr. Freizinger facilitated DBT and CBT groups, was trained in the Maudsley Method for treating adolescents with eating disorders, and co-directed both the partial hospital day program and the intensive outpatient program for adults with eating disorders.

Dr. Freizinger was the 2006 Murphy Fellow at the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Mental Health Center DBT program where she received extensive training in the application of DBT with chronically suicidal patients with co-morbid disorders.

Over the past fifteen years, she has worked as a clinician and researcher in various settings that include the Cambridge Hospital inpatient unit, Two Brattle Center, the psychopharmacology research unit at Boston University Medical Center, the Inpatient Eating Disorder Service at Deaconess Waltham Hospital in Waltham, Massachusetts and in private practice. Dr. Freizinger was also a clinician, researcher, and group leader for eight years at the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Dr. Freizinger has presented workshops and lectures on DBT and eating disorders at the national level. She is published in the areas of eating disorders and infertility, DBT and eating disorders, validation therapy, chronic pain assessment, and depression in infertile women.