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About Dr. Barbara Cole
Dr. Cole has a Bachelor’s degree, two Masters
Degrees and a Doctorate in Psychology. She is a certified hypnotherapist,
licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in California, a member
of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists,
as well as a member of the International Association of Eating
Disorder Professionals. She has authored several books, and
is one of only a few interventionists who both practices and
trains other therapists and interventionists in a specialized
eating disorder intervention method.
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Prior to her private practice, treatment
direction and intervention work specializing in eating disorders,
Dr. Cole also specialized in intervention and private practice
in the area of chemical dependency treatment and trauma recovery.
For the past nine years, Dr. Cole has been the Clinical Director
of The Victorian of Newport Beach, an adult women’s residential
eating disorder treatment facility. She was a clinician with
the Betty Ford Center, and prior to that, was the Program Director
for many state licensed and certified drug and alcohol programs
in the northern California area. She has worked in inpatient,
outpatient, aftercare, residential and private settings during
her career and has an in-depth understanding regarding what
is involved in each of these settings.
Dr. Cole now adds to her private practice with two new services:
Online Therapy and (Mobile) Internet Counseling. Utilizing easy
to use technology that is offered on most computers and increasingly offered
on new cell phones and hand-held communication devices, Dr. Cole works in concert
with excellent registered dieticians, psychiatrists, medical practitioners and
other treatment providers to assist her Clients in obtaining remote outpatient
care when deemed appropriate. Additionally, where appropriate, Dr. Cole is now
able to make house calls, remote office, and hospital visits.
If you or someone you care about is struggling with difficult personal issues,
you are invited to contact Dr. Cole for an initial consultation by filling out
and faxing the Agreement & Intake forms. Many women and men have found freedom
from their struggles using Dr. Cole’s online therapy. Her methods are gentle,
understanding, often quite brief and always very skilled.
*Important: Please do not contact Dr. Cole with any emergency or time-sensitive information, as she may not be able to respond to your communications on an emergency or immediate basis. It is also important to note that while Dr. Cole does everything she can to maintain your confidentiality and privacy during online counseling sessions, she cannot guarantee that outside sources (such as internet criminals) will not attempt to interfere. To date, there have been no known incidences of patient privacy breaches while working online during internet
counseling with Dr. Cole. Patients agree to assume complete responsibility, liability and risk for online
therapy with Dr. Cole.
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