Laura Weisberg

Laura Weisberg, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Dr. Weisberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in the Duke Center for Eating Disorders. She has specialized in the treatment of eating disorders since 1982. Dr. Weisberg received her BA from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and her PhD from the University of Maryland-College Park.  Before coming to Duke, she was a Clinical Associate in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.  She also was Director of the Eating Disorders Program at Westwood Lodge Hospital for 10 years. Dr. Weisberg has trained in psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, and mindfulness based therapies, and has a special interest in the application of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy and somatically oriented therapies in the treatment of eating disorders. Her current interests center on understanding change processes in psychotherapy, and the interface between trauma and eating disorders.