Christine Knorr Psychotherapy Associates

09/17/2025

We are so pleased to welcome Sher Leibowitz, LMSW (formerly Sher Zadok) to our team of therapists at Christine Knorr Psychotherapy Associates!

This is great news for a multitude of reasons! Among them: many of our clients and families already know and love Sher, as she has been providing meal support and recovery coaching services with us for four years. You may also know Sher from the workshops she has hosted with us.

Sher has also worked in a similar capacity at Monte Nido and at BALANCE treatment center in New York City, where she provided Meal Support, trauma-informed yoga, and 1:1 emotional support with adults and adolescents with eating disorders. Sher also has prior experience providing substance abuse counseling as well as counseling services to middle school students.

Sher is now accepting new clients for individual therapy. We expect her schedule to fill up fast. If you would like to schedule an appointment with Sher, please give Robin a call at 845-505-1119, or fill out the contact form on our website: https://www.christineknorrlcsw.com/contact

Welcome, Sher! 💕

07/22/2025

Next time you’re in the office, feel free to take some body positive and mental health awareness stickers! Or if you can’t get here, DM us your address and we will put them in the mail for you 🙂

07/13/2025

We had the best time today supporting the Center For Safety & Change at the Women’s Distance Festival! It was an honor to meet so many awesome and supportive women!
Pictured left to right: Hannah Smith, Christine Knorr, & supporters Cathy and Melissa
The Annual Women's Distance Festival Center for Safety & Change

01/07/2025

Thank you so much to one of our favorite therapists, Lior Solaimani, for making these baby spider plants available to our clients and their families! Plant care is good for the soul and reminds us that Spring isn’t too far away. Next time you’re in the office, pour yourself a warm cup of tea and take home a plant 🌿

11/02/2024

Great advice from my colleague Dr Tenise Wall, PhD

We often talk about the red flags 🚩 that some have great difficulty in seeing especially if they have been normalized in your life. Here’s examples of green flags. When assessing relationships this is a great tool to see the quality of relationships we choose to surround ourselves with.

10/27/2024

06/25/2023

Introducing the newest member of our team, Lior Solaimani!

You all know that when it comes to finding and hiring the best of the best, I always come through and then some…even if it takes a really long time. And Lior was definitely worth the wait!

Lior is a mental health counselor who comes to us with experience treating eating disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, and trauma in residential and PHP/IOP settings. She is a brilliant, fantastic human being and we are just so lucky to have found her.

Lior will begin working with us full time
starting this week and will offer both in-office and virtual appointments. Best of all, Lior working with us means that we finally, finally no longer have a waitlist!! 👏🙏

If you see Lior around the office this week, be sure to say hi!

06/05/2023

If Hannah recommends it, it must be good! So good that it made the cut as our first Summer Book Club pick!

New York Times Bestseller “Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture” by journalist Virginia Sole-Smith offers guidance on raising kids (or raising yourself!) to have a healthy relationship with food & body image.

After you’ve read it (or listened to it…or maybe skimmed it?) we know you’ll have a lot to talk about. Join eating disorder therapist Hannah Smith on Zoom on Wednesday, June 28th at 7pm for a book club discussion.

This event is free and open to all. Register here: https://www.christineknorrlcsw.com/registration

05/25/2023

Looking for something to read this weekend? We recommend the New York Times Bestseller “Fat Talk: Parenting In The Age Of Diet Culture”. In this book, journalist Virginia Sole-Smith draws on her extensive reporting and interviews with dozens of parents and kids to offer a provocative new approach for thinking about food and bodies, and a way for us all to work toward a more weight-inclusive world.

Interested? Read on:
“By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is bad. By middle school, more than a quarter of them have gone on a diet. What are parents supposed to do?

Kids learn, as we’ve all learned, that thinness is a survival strategy in a world that equates body size and value. Parents worry if their kids care too much about being thin, but even more about the consequences if they aren’t. And multibillion-dollar industries thrive on this fear of fatness. We’ve fought the “war on obesity” for over forty years and Americans aren’t thinner or happier with their bodies. But it’s not our kids—or their weight—who need fixing.

In this illuminating narrative, journalist Virginia Sole-Smith exposes the daily onslaught of fatphobia and body shaming that kids face from school, sports, doctors, diet culture, and parents themselves—and offers strategies for how families can change the conversation around weight, health, and self-worth.

Fat Talk is a stirring, deeply researched, and groundbreaking book that will help parents learn to reckon with their own body biases, identify diet culture, and empower their kids to navigate this challenging landscape.”

There’s a whole lot to discuss there, and discuss we will! Join Eating Disorder Therapist Hannah Smith on June 28th for a community book club discussion. This event is free and open to all. For details or to register, please visit our website: https://www.christineknorrlcsw.com/groups or click the link in the image below.
We can’t wait to see you there!

04/16/2023

I’ve been saying this for years. Louder for those in the back 📣

How many times have you heard that eating disorders are all about control? If you’re struggling with one yourself or supporting someone who is, this theory has probably come up more than once. It’s a nice neat way of thinking about a messy illness, so we understand why it’s stuck around so long—but it’s a very small piece of a bigger puzzle.

Eating disorders are complex mental illnesses caused by a variety of genetic, neurobiological, environmental, and physical factors, and there’s almost never one singular cause. What usually happens is that someone is born with a predisposition to develop an eating disorder, and then certain environmental factors “turn on” the disease. Here are a few things that might contribute to someone developing an eating disorder:

🧬Certain genes
🤔Certain personality traits (like perfectionism, drive, and sensitivity)
⛔️Dieting or restrictive eating
❤️‍🩹Trauma
🧠Certain co-occurring conditions
🎬Diet culture
🍎Food insecurity
🤝A desire for control or a way to cope with overwhelming, difficult emotions

Eating disorders are effectively coping mechanisms gone awry, and control might play into that for some people. But to say that eating disorders are about a need for control is a profound oversimplification. One more *very* important thing to note: You do not need to know what caused an eating disorder in order to recover. In fact, identifying the underlying causes of an eating disorder is rarely even a part of treatment. Counterintuitive as it may seem, you can achieve lasting recovery without ever knowing why you had an eating disorder in the first place. 💚

03/02/2023

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is an eating disorder characterized by an inability or refusal to eat many foods due to lack of interest/lack of hunger, fear/anxiety, or a sense of disgust around the sensory aspects of food (textures, smells,etc).

Children and adults with ARFID usually have a very narrow list of foods they can tolerate. This can lead to health problems such as malnourishment, failure to thrive, and other problems associated with inadequate nutrition. It can also lead to social isolation and low self esteem.

Effective, evidence-based treatment for ARFID is available. Our therapists use a treatment protocol called CBT-AR. This approach utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy, along with gradual exposure and response prevention training to achieve good results. For people who suffer with ARFID, this can be absolutely life changing.

For more information about effective treatment for ARFID, please visit our website at www.christineknorrlcsw.com or give us a call at 845-505-1119.

"Put a smoothie or an unfamiliar brand of mac 'n' cheese in front of her, and she trembles with fear."