Contributor: Crystal Bowlby, PhD, HSP, CEDS-C

Crystal Bowlby, Ph.D., HSP, CEDS-C, is a clinical psychologist (Health Service Psychologist) serving patients and staff in the adult eating disorders program at Laureate Eating Disorders Program in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Crystal has specialized in the education and treatment of eating disorders since 2002 (and has been at Laureate since 2014). Working from a strong relational framework, Crystal approaches her work from a human-to-human stance, whereby the therapist is both a learner and a teacher, an observer/witness and a co-traveler. Crystal’s passion and curiosity to grow, to learn, and to relate to others engenders her work. She is drawn to depth/Jungian perspectives, transpersonal psychology, positive psychology, embodiment, and soul care. Research interests surround therapist's use of self in the therapeutic process, the role of gratitude to enhance quality of life, self-abandonment, qualitative features of recovery, and the themes of hope, curiosity, and surrender.