Karen Samuels, Ph.D.
Karen Samuels, Ph.D, is a lifelong yogini, and psychologist in Ormond Beach, FL. She is the Founder/President of COPE: Community Outreach to Prevent Eating Disorders. She serves as consultant at the Family Medicine Residency at Halifax Medical Center, & has been affiliated for over two decades with the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College. She is a Guide & psychologist at www.OneOeight.com, providing education and outreach for the continuum of disordered eating, offering strategies to heal body image disturbance and instructing how to incorporate yoga in eating disorder treatment and recovery. She developed middle school outreach media literacy programs to thousands of girls in central Florida, trains physicians in interprofessional Eating Disorder teams and conducts Eating Disorder group therapy with women at midlife and beyond. She has published extensively, lectured nationally, been interviewed on Huff PostLive, webinars, blogs, and tweets about Eating Disorders and yoga in healing body image disturbance. Dr. Samuels received the 2014 NEDA Westin Family Award for Activism and Advocacy.