SPEAKER
Ann Saffi Biasetti
PhD, LCSW, C-IAYT
Ann Saffi Biasetti, PhD, LCSW, C-IAYT, is a transpersonal psychologist, licensed clinical social worker, and certified yoga therapist. She specializes in helping individuals heal their relationships with their bodies, food, and sense of self through somatic therapy, yoga therapy, and embodied self-compassion. Ann is the creator of the Befriending Your Body Program™, a somatic, self-compassion-based recovery program for disordered eating, and the author of Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm: A Somatic Guide to Healing Your Relationship With Your Body; Befriending Your Body: A Self-Compassionate Approach to Freeing Yourself from Disordered Eating and The Awakening Self-Compassion Card Deck: 52 Practices for Self-Care, Healing, and Growth. She contributed the chapter “The Process of Self-Compassion in Eating Disorder Recovery” to Grounding Psychotherapy in Self-Compassion.
Ann consults and lectures extensively on somatic psychotherapy, embodiment, and interoceptive awareness in the context of eating disorder recovery. Additionally, she serves as an instructor with the Center for Mindful Body Awareness and the Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy (SCIP) Program. A featured PESI presenter, she has appeared on multiple podcasts and trains professionals through the Befriending Your Body (BFYB) certification program.
Ann maintains a private therapy and consultation practice based in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she integrates mind-body modalities to facilitate holistic healing and personal growth. She enjoys yoga, meditation, nature, animals, music, and embodied living.
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