Melissa Freizinger, PhD, is the Associate Director of the Eating Disorder Program in the Division of Adolescent Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Freizinger has been a clinician, researcher, and consultant in Boston for over twenty-five years, working with patients with eating disorders, addictions, personality disorders, and anxiety disorders. Dr. Freizinger has presented national and local workshops and lectures on the topic of eating disorders, eating disorders and college students, family-based treatment, and borderline personality disorder and eating disorders. She is published in the areas of atypical anorexia,  eating disorders and infertility, binge eating disorder in adolescents, and eating disorders during COVID-19.  Her clinical interests include the application of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to eating disorders, eating disorders and suicidality, atypical anorexia, and family-based treatment.

DISOBEY YOUR EATING DISORDER
Forthcoming from Hachette Balance, Spring 2027