William Anderson
MA, LMHC
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Permanent Weight Loss Expert
William Anderson Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Weight Control and Psychotherapy with emphasis on Cognitive and Behavior Therapy
- Best Sellers
- The Anderson Method
- Career Focus
- Licensed therapist helping clients succeed in solving their weight problem, and teaching other therapists his unique program of therapy.
- Affiliation
- ACA, AMHCA, FMHCA, SCMHCA, FSCH
William Anderson, MA, LMHC, is a psychotherapist residing in Sarasota, Florida. His clinical training was obtained at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the Unversity of South Florida, Tampa. He has experience in a wide range of mental health issues, but he specializes in weight control because of his own struggles and eventual victory with weight control, with the ground breaking therapeutic approach he developed. He lost 140 lbs. in 1983, after 25 years of obesity and failure with diets and weight loss, and he has maintained his success for 25 years.
He's a trained and licensed psychotherapist, but it is his own experience and the discovery of what he calls Therapeutic Psychogenics that has made him so successful in helping clients and other therapists succeed weight loss and weight control therapy.
While he still accepts clients for individual therapy, his main emphasis is the expansion of readership of the book explaining his approach, and the training of therapists providing his program in their own communities.
Visit http://www.TheAndersonMethod.com to learn all about his methods, his small growing network of therapists, the success his clients have enjoyed, and the book about his program.
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Do You Love to Eat? That’s OK! It’s a Key to Permanent Weight Loss
I love to eat. For years, I thought that was the reaso I had my weight problem. As a kid, the so-called experts told me I’d have to deny that part of myself to succeed —I’d need to stop enjoying myself and get used to doing what I hated. To solve my weight problem, they said I’d have to make myself stick to hateful diets and exercise routines. I tried, but I just couldn’t do it, and I always thought of myself as a weak-willed failure. But it turns out the so-called experts were wrong. They didn’t know what they were talking about.
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For New Year's, Say “Yes” to Goals and “No” to Resolutions
Every year at this time we reflect on the past and contemplate what the future holds for us. Some think that 2012 will be our last. If that is true, what do we do about it? What do we do if it is not? We’ve made New Year’s resolutions in the past, only to break them within days, and we’ve heard it is better to not make them, better not to set out on something that is almost sure to fail.
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How Do You Kill a Craving?
I'm the psychotherapist who discovered Therapeutic Psychogenics, a remarkable method to permanently lose weight, when I solved my own 320 lb. weight problem over 25 years ago. I lost 140 lbs. for good after 25 years of obesity and failure with diets and exercise schemes. Now I teach The Anderson Method (www.TheAndersonMethod.com) to clients and other therapists, and I've helped thousands to solve their weight problem. Many clients have asked me "when did you stop having cravings and urges?" They think that because I have maintained my 140 lb.
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Five Ideas for the President's Task Force on Childhood Obesity
On March 17th I was contacted by Melody Barnes, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, and asked to submit my ideas for solving our country’s childhood obesity epidemic. The deadline was March 26th, so there wasn’t much time to get back to her with the solution to what is arguably the most difficult behavioral health problem our population has. But I was sure I could do it. I had been preparing for this job my whole life.
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How to Have a Wonderful Holiday Season Without Gaining Weight
Although I don’t want to discourage anyone from starting a diet, I’d advise you to put off starting it until after the holidays are over. This time of year is just too chaotic and stressful for most people. If you’re isolated and alone, go ahead and start, but only in that case would it be effective and enhance your holiday season instead of making things more stressful. For most people, just avoiding a weight gain this holiday season will be a fantastic success. This is entirely possible, without a lot of anguish and self denial, if you follow my list of Dos and Don’ts. Here they are:
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Remaking Yourself — In Who’s Image?
Visualizing, imaging, vision maps and vision boards —affirmations, self-talk, self-image and body image. This is the language of the mystical psychology of Creative Self-Improvement. It is a quasi-scientific method of remaking one’s self into a new and better model, devoid of the mistakes and defects of our past and present. With its use, we can become a new self, healthier, happier and more successful with new traits and characteristics. This transformation is not simply a matter of maturation or application of will power.
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Top Five Reasons People Gain Weight Without Realizing It
Most of us get overweight over a period of time without realizing it. Eating a few more calories than you burn, even from something "healthy" like a glass of orange juice every morning, can make you gain 100 pounds in five years! It's cumulative. Here are some common ways we start packing on the pounds, and don't even realize it. 1) Were you an Athlete? Say you're into sports all throughout high school and college. Every day you're out on the field burning up an extra 1500 calories. Naturally you eat more to get the energy you need.
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Can a Calorie Restrictive Diet Ruin My Metabolism?
A writer asks, “I’ve heard that my metabolic rate screeches to a halt if I go on a calorie restricted diet. I’ve heard my metabolism will be ’ruined for life’ if I lose weight that way. OMG! Is this true?”
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Food—How Do I Use Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Just about everyone who admits to loving “comfort food” is confessing to a kind of food addiction. Unlike other creatures, human beings use food to satisfy a whole array of needs that have nothing to do with nutrition. Our four-legged relatives don’t eat because they are depressed, tired, lonely, or bored—they eat because they need the nutrition, and they stop when they’ve gotten enough. We, on the other hand, eat for a variety of reasons, and for some of us, there is never enough.
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Yes, Your Stomach Actually Shrinks When You Diet!
A reader and client has written in asking, “Does my stomach actually shrink after a few weeks of eating less, or is it all in my imagination?” Years ago, it was thought that your stomach doesn't really shrink, it only feels like it. With the current research, much to my surprise, the answer is yes, your stomach actually does shrink! (The author is the psychotherapist who lost 140 lbs. when he discovered Therapeutic Psychogenics, and he’s kept it off for over 25 years. He has helped thousands to lose weight permanently with this approach. More about it at www.TheAndersonMethod.com)
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How Does Spot Reducing Work? Can I Get Rid of Belly Fat and Flabby Arms?
The short answer is that spot reducing doesn't work. Spot reducing is a myth. However, there is a way to reduce the fat at those spots. Does that sound like a contradiction? I'll explain. For ages, people have been unhappy with fat bellies, upper arm flab and love handles. It was especially frustrating if they were otherwise OK with things. Many people weren't interested in losing weight as much as sculpting their bodies. All they wanted to change was the part they were unhappy with.
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Six Ways You Can Help Your Overweight Child and Solve The Obesity Epidemic
I was the fattest kid in school all my school life. It’s a miserable way to spend a childhood, or any time, for that matter. To look at me today no one would guess it. I’ve been at my ideal body weight for over twenty years. I’m a mental health counselor. Some assume I have no idea what it’s like to be fat. But I know too well. I was obese and morbidly obese for 25 years, and I thought I was a hopeless case for a long time. But I discovered how to solve the problem 20 years ago, lost 140 pounds, and I’ve been helping others since. I know how to solve the obesity problem.
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The Anderson Method
The official website of The Anderson Method, providing information about The Anderson Method, a psychotherapeutically oriented weight control method, the providers who offer it, and the book about it.
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Anderson's Remarkable Weight Loss Method - The Book
This website provides information about "The Anderson Method", the successful weight loss method, the book of the same name, and its author.
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The Anderson Method - The Secret to Permanent Weight Loss
Two Harbors Press website describing the ground-breaking weight loss book, The Anderson Method, and offering online sales and immediate delivery.
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The Anderson Method Press Room
Videos, articles, press kit, and other information related to The Anderson Method for Lifelong Weight Loss and the book about it.
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From Bill Anderson: "The best way to get my help is to read my book, The Anderson Method, and work with one of the therapists I've trained to provide my unique program of therapy. Visit my website at www.TheAndersonMethod.com and you'll see videos about my program as well as information about how to get my book and contact my associates."
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