Gia Marson

Gia Marson is a licensed psychologist, consultant, longtime meditation practitioner, and an integrative medicine health coach trained by Duke Integrative Medicine. Dr. Marson has spent the last two decades helping adolescents and adults reach their whole-health goals at her private practice located in Los Angeles, CA, and by conducting training, teaching, and providing clinical supervision. She is a blogger for PsychologyToday.com and a contributor to goop.com, as well as the author of The Binge Eating Prevention Workbook: An Eight-Week Individualized Program to Overcome Compulsive Eating and Make Peace with Food (2020). For eight years she served as the founding director of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Counseling and Psychological Services Eating Disorders Program, where she provided clinical services, taught an Intuitive Eating and body image class, and co-authored the program’s first collaborative treatment manual. Marson also served as a psychologist on the UCLA Athletic Care Committee, where she worked alongside prominent physicians and trainers to coordinate mental and physical healthcare for world-class student-athletes. For three years, she served as a consultant helping to launch the Nourish for Life outpatient program at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. Early in her career, Marson was a clinician at the Renfrew Center’s intensive outpatient program and the Monte Nido Treatment Center’s residential program. Dr. Marson believes in the power of therapy as a space for self-reflection, identifying stuckpoints, expanding the capacity for satisfying relationships, and receiving support as well as an opportunity to address one’s unique vision for growth, change, and health.