Nyc Therapy?

[aljf]

Hi,

I was diagnosed about 2.5 months ago, and I was recently talking to a friend of mine who is a medical resident who said that in her program they really stress encouraging patients who are making big lifestyle changes (like all of us!) to see a therapist to talk through their struggles. This doesn't sound like a bad idea to me, but I have ZERO interest in seeing a therapist whom I would have to educate about what celiac IS.

Does anyone in NYC know of a good therapist who knows a lot about this disease? (I know that is going to be hard to find-- since we have so much trouble even finding gastroenterologists and nutritionists who seem to know anything!)

[jenvan]

i don't know personally, but perhaps some of these contacts, links could help you out??

Call the Celiac Ctr in NYC at Columbia: Open Original Shared Link

Group: Greater New York City Celiac Support Group

City: New York

Contacts:

Alice Dunnie Chenal

60 Sutton Place South

New York, NY 10022

212-755-9541

Merle Cachia

456 Riverside Drive, #8-A

New York, NY 10027

212-662-2464

Jean Landon

90 LaSalle St., #12-A

New York, NY 10027

212-662-6435

Internet:

Jean Landon, HLandon326@AOL.COM

Leslie Elsner, LEls608@AOL.COM

Jackie Beck, jandj313@AOL.COM

[judy05]

I don't know about anyone else but I find this board better than any therapy could ever be. I always find people who have been through what I have been through or worse . It's good to hear how they handled it and the support here is really fantastic, could a therapist really be as good as this board? Just think how much money you will save!

[celiac3270]

I agree that this board is also good therapy. It would probably be hard to find a therapist who knows about celiac, though... You could, though, mention celiac the first time you went, give a list of a few websites with which the therapist could educate himself/herself.

NY has among the best celiac drs., though. For adults, there's Green and he works with about six other doctors, who may not be Green, but are probably also good. Anne Lee is in my eyes the most knowledeable nutritionist when it comes to celiac and there's even a phenomenal pediatric celiac dr./GI w/ Columbia Prebysterian, Dr. Joseph Levy.