Marirose Occhiogrosso

HOW I WORK:

If you have willingness to consider new perspectives and to receive active support, to collaborate, and take small positive actions, let’s get started on your healing and recovery.

You may not be sure if you have disordered eating but you've developed disrupted relationships to food and body. A thorough evaluation with me is a good place to start.

I’ll help you understand that an eating disorder often develops because of biology and family history. We’ll review how cultural/social messages, along with repetitive patterns of eating or exercise shaped you, your behaviors, and beliefs.

We'll focus on your strengths, how to help you build a life worth living, how to find community, purpose, and joy.

We’ll celebrate the creativity and genius of your survival. Emotional eating, restricting, purging or exercising may provide temporary relief, but we can learn how it functions to soothe you and find other more lasting ways to cope.

We'll explore the values of self acceptance and growth. Recovery from depression, trauma, and stress is a process not an event. I will persist with you and help you learn how to persist in tough times.

Most importantly, I hope to help you develop curiosity and compassion for yourself; to transform any bullying or judgmental voices from your past, to ones of encouragement and love.

WORK EXPERIENCE: currently in high volume, high acuity, psychiatric environment with diverse populations-15 years Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles
•	Provide evaluations of symptoms and severity of patients with eating disorders, disordered eating, exercise disorders, and body image dissatisfaction
•	Make recommendations for treatment and levels of care based on medical necessity and urgency using LOCUS to determine: Intensive Outpatient, Partial Hospitalization, Residential, and Inpatient
•	Consult with patients Primary Care Physicians and Psychiatrists and other providers; make referrals to other experts, Registered Dietitians, specialty therapists, ex: Autism spectrum disorders, Gender Care Specialists
•	Coordinate and case manage pts who step up or drop down in various levels of care
•	Provide therapy for those pts who are able to make progress and be medically stable in an outpatient setting
•	Utilize the following interventions to help patients recover: DBT skills, CBT, CPT, Trauma informed Exposure Response Prevention, Solution-Focused, psychodynamic, and strength-based focus
•	Focus: harm reduction, full recovery, replace harmful coping with sustainable coping skills, help patients understand underlying conditions and patterns that lead to eating disorder behaviors
•	Relapse Prevention and assist pts in maintaining and strengthening their progress


Private Practice Owner and Provider, June 2021 - Present:  
Marirose Occhiogrosso, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. HELP FOR EATING DISORDERS AND MORE 
4001 W. Alameda Ave, Suite 205, Burbank, CA 91505 
•	Provide therapy for adult clients who have eating disorders, depression, anxiety, trauma, relational and life stressors

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE AS AN MFT INTERN: Substance Abuse Residential with Adults, LGBTQIA+ Adolescent Group Home Primary Therapist with residents admitting from Juvenile Hall and DCFS, In-Home Trauma - Focused CBT Therapy with Foster Children and Guardians, School-based Therapy with Children with Mental Health and Developmental Challenges, Art Therapist at Residential treatment center for children ages 5-13.