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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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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The 5 Best Weight Loss Products Ever Created
So you want to solve your weight problem? I can help you. I solved my weight problem twenty-five years ago when I lost 140 lbs. permanently, after twenty-five years of being overweight. Now I teach others. I’m a psychotherapist and the author of The Anderson Method, my successful weight loss self-help book that describes the program I teach clients and other clinical professionals so they can help their clients too. It’s getting high marks from doctors and behavioral professionals all over the country as well as the clients who have succeeded with it themselves.
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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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How to Eat Everything You Like and Still Lose Weight
Most people think that to lose weight you have to deny yourself your favorite foods and stick to a rigid diet. On the contrary, one of the keys to permanent weight loss is learning how to eat everything you like, even “splurging” on the weekend, without gaining weight. This is not only possible, but it is absolutely necessary if you want to lose weight permanently.
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Therapeutic Psychogenics: The New Psychology to Lose Weight
There’s a new psychology getting rave reviews for its phenomenal success in helping people achieve permanent weight loss. It’s called Therapeutic Psychogenics. Therapeutic Psychogenics is a collection of “mind control” techniques I developed that helped me lose 140 pounds over 20 years ago, after suffering through 25 years of a losing battle against obesity and all its miseries. I now teach this time-tested methodology to clients and other therapists. Here’s a sampling:
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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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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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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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10 Things You (and Your Schools) Need to Know About Beating the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
My most vivid childhood memories are from grade school. They are awful memories of ugly days, too many to count. I was “the fat kid.” Every year, the school nurse would make her way from room to room, a doctor’s scale in tow. When she got to our room, we were called by name, and we got weighed. It was like walking to the gallows. I used to think that my misery was unique, but at age 58, as a psychotherapist who has heard thousands of people tell their most intimate secrets, I’ve learned that I am far from alone.
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The Keys to Personal Change
Everywhere I turn everyday, I encounter people who are unhappy with some aspect of themselves or their lives. They are not just at my psychotherapy practice or the community clinic I volunteer in. I encounter them at church, at nightclubs, at the health club, at the convenience store, at the symphony, at professional gatherings. Something is wrong and they need it to get better. They are everywhere. They are us. After years of encounters with people who need to make changes in their lives, I find that some get better, and some are stuck.
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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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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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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
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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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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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