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How to find the Best Eating Disorder Therapist

Posted on: December 23rd, 2025 by Our Team

When looking for the best eating disorder psychotherapist, it is important to choose a clinician who is well-trained, experienced, and genuinely focused on your needs. Here are some reasons that Arin Bass, MFT at HEAL Marin, is regarded as one of the best eating disorders therapists in Marin and San Francisco.

Eating disorders typically require a team. Even when therapy is the core, many clients benefit from collaboration with a primary care clinician or adolescent medicine, a registered dietitian who specializes in eating disorders, and sometimes psychiatry for medical management when anxiety, depression, OCD, or trauma symptoms are part of the picture. This is exactly the reason that Arin Bass created and built HEAL Marin as a holistic psychotherapy group practice specializing in women’s issues, eating disorders, and disordered eating.

HEAL Marin is a therapeutic haven for women of all ages, from adolescence to adulthood, helping them to overcome challenges and heal. They offer individual and small group therapy, nutrition counseling, parent coaching, and a suite of supplemental options tending to the mind, body, heart and soul.

Expertise in Eating Disorders

Arin Bass is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (CA Lic #83366) with extensive experience supporting adults and adolescents to overcome and heal from mental health struggles such as eating disorders, body image issues, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship issues, family conflict, professional/academic dilemmas, and stress around life transitions. She has experience working in various treatment settings, including partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, residential treatment, and outpatient private practice.

Committed to effective and compassionate care rooted in evidence-based interventions, she works with clients to identify the root causes of their struggles and develop personalized care plans—always in a safe and nurturing space that allows clients to explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors without judgment. Arin’s holistic approach uses a wide array of therapies to tend to the mind, body, and soul for deep, lasting well-being and happiness.​

Expert Eating Disorders Training

Arin earned her B.A. with a double major in Psychology and Neuroscience and went on to earn her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy from The American School of Professional Psychology. Arin is trained in a wide range of therapeutic techniques, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Family-Based Treatment, Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), Internal Family Systems, Psychodynamic, and Integrative.

At Heal Marin, Arin’s approach to patient care is individualized based on each patient’s symptoms, conditions, and functional level. She employs an evidence-based psychological practice, giving the patient the best chance for success. Arin has 15+ years of experience in treatment eating disorders in a variety of settings. She has served as board chairs on multiple non-profits focused on eating disorder education, awareness, and prevention efforts.

What does it mean to be MFT licensed?

The primary goal is to protect the public by ensuring that therapists have the specialized competence, ethical knowledge, and clinical experience to effectively diagnose and treat mental, emotional, and relationship issues within family systems, allowing them to practice independently and maintain high standards of care. Licensing validates training in family systems theory, enabling therapists to address problems holistically within relationship contexts rather than just individually.

Heal Marin is one of the best group psychotherapy practices for eating disorders in Marin and San Francisco.

Arin knows from both science and experience that true healing must tend to the mind, body, and soul. To achieve this, in the past, she often referred clients to specialists and yearned to someday offer women and adolescents a full suite of holistic healing services in one trusted, supportive, and joyful place. She has manifested this long-held vision by opening HEAL Marin—a mental health haven in the heart of Marin County, where women can access highly qualified practitioners who provide integrated therapies that are the pillars of deep healing and enduring health.​