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Rachel Fisher

Meet Rachel Fisher

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Rachel Fisher is a licensed clinician with over a decade of postgraduate experience in eating disorders, body image issues, anxiety, panic disorders, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, life transitions, postpartum issues, and grief and loss. She employs a two-pronged approach, assisting clients in reducing symptoms while inviting them to discover their symptoms’ more profound meaning and cultivate long-term change and transformation.  She has specialized training and experience treating eating disorders in a variety of settings, including inpatient, outpatient, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient care. She also has extensive experience working with parents whose children have eating disorders and mood disorders.

Rachel draws on the wisdom of various therapeutic techniques and traditions, guided by each client’s specific needs, preferences and goals.  She has advanced training in exposure and response prevention, CBT, DBT, psychodynamic and spiritually integrated psychotherapy.  Her aim is to create a warm, safe, customized and interactive environment where clients can be supported and challenged throughout their process.  She views therapy as a collaborative journey that can lead beyond symptom relief and towards deeper growth, greater self-awareness and alignment of body/heart/mind, improved connection with oneself and others, renewed sense of the client’s own inner strength and self-worth and a more embodied sense of meaning and purpose.  This journey towards long-term change can be both challenging and rewarding.  Clients are encouraged to work at their own pace to explore their fears, disappointments, resistances, conflicts, self-doubt, unfulfilled lives, hidden dreams and forgotten strengths. She considers it a privilege to be a part of my clients’ lives and journeys.

Presentations

Zarcone, J., Michels, J., Simeone, R., Bumpus, S., Tivarus, M., Pilato, M., & McAnarney, E. (2014). Neural Correlates of Task Switching and Set Shifting in Adolescents with Restrictive Anorexia Nervosa. Journal of Adolescent Health.

McAnarney, E., Simeone, R., Michels, J., (June 15, 2012) Neural Correlates of Task Switching and Set Shifting in Adolescents with Restrictive Anorexia Nervosa. Oral and poster presentations to be given at University of Rochester Medical Center Pediatric Biomedical Research Conference, Rochester, NY

Kreipe, R., Starr, T., & Simeone, R. (2012). Chapter 24 Eating disorders. Sahler, O.J. & Carr, J. (Eds.), The Behavioral Sciences and Health Care (pp. 195-201).

Simeone, R. (April 23, 2010) An Investigation of Parental Effects of Eating Disorders and Caregiver Needs in Relation to Family-Based Therapy. Oral presentation given at the University of Rochester Undergraduate Research Symposium, Rochester, New York.

Professional Memberships

American Psychological Association (APA)
New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA)
National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)

Licenses

License: State of New York (#088497)

Affiliations