Who We Are

Executive Board

President Erika Bent, LPCC, LMFT, CEDS-S

ErikaBent is a licensed psychotherapist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She serves as the Director of Clinical Operations at The Healthy Teen Project, a treatment program for adolescents struggling with eating disorders. In addition, she has a private practice in San Francisco where she treats adults, adolescents, and families. Erika is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Supervisor (CEDS-S) through  IAEDP . 

President Elect Salena Schapp, PsyD

Salena Schapp is a licensed psychologist (PSY29619) with experience treating patients across the lifespan and a particular specialty working with children, adolescents, and families. Salena completed her graduate training in clinical psychology at the PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium, where she focused her studies on children and families. She finished her predoctoral internship training at University of Texas Austin/Dell Children’s Medical Center and her postdoctoral residency at Kaiser Permanente in Redwood City. Salena co-founded Beyond Measure Wellness Collaborative, a team of psychologists and dietitians practicing from a weight-inclusive, Health at Every Size® approach, focused on helping individuals improve their relationship to food and their bodies. Salena is certified in Family Based Therapy (FBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). Salena enjoys supervising, consulting, and teaching other professionals, as well as the greater community, through trainings and presentations.

Secretary Sarah Mortensen, LMFT

I’m Sarah (LFMT CA # 85498), owner of Mortensen Psychotherapy, supervisor, and therapist!  I enjoy helping adolescents, younger adults, and their caregivers as they go through the process of healing from disordered eating and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). This includes increasing understanding of one's self and forging healthier relationships with food, friends and family. I supervise therapists beginning their careers creating unique and individualized treatments for every client. When I'm not working, I love taking my 3 boys to a museum, reading a good book at the beach, and trips to the Korean Spa.

Treasurer Kirsten Graves, MS RD

Board Chairs

Certification Chair Jen Powers, MS, RDN

Jen is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Certified Yoga Teacher.  She has extensive experience over the past 15 years working in a variety of settings including residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and outpatient eating disorder treatment.  Currently, she is working at Willa Wellness Center as the Director of Nutrition and in her private practice.  Jen takes a non-diet, Health at Every Size® aligned, and client centered approach.  Her background in nutrition therapy and yoga provides a unique opportunity to strengthen the mind-body connection when working with her.  It is Jen’s passion and mission to help people find freedom with food and to feel empowered in their body.

Marketing Chair Kira Olsen, LMFT

Kira Olson is a licensed psychotherapist and Owner of Olson Counseling Services Inc., a private practice that serves adolescents, adults, and families both virtually and in person in California. Kira's educational path includes Bachelors degrees in both Exercise Science and Psychology and a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy. She is certified in Family Based Therapy (FBT) and is also a Mindfulness Based Eating Awareness Training Qualified Instructor (MB-EAT-QI). Her professional experience has included community education and outreach, program development, referral relations for eating disorder programs, and experience in a range of treatment levels and settings. Kira is passionate about education and prevention efforts in the community, early intervention and treatment, and advocacy in mental health.

Marketing Chair Elect Sam Finkelstein, RD

Sam is a weight-inclusive Registered Dietitian who believes that all bodies in all stages are deserving of quality, evidence-based healthcare. Sam co-founded Beyond Measure Wellness Collaborative, a team of therapists and dietitians committed to weight-inclusive care. Sam has dedicated her career to learning how best to serve the populations most in need. Through this commitment, Sam has become an expert in approaching eating disorder treatment using philosophies such as Health At Every Size (HAES) ® and Intuitive Eating. In addition to eating disorder treatment, Sam enjoys supporting patients through common nutrition-related challenges utilizing a non-diet approach, and is in the process of becoming specialized in perinatal nutrition. Outside of individual work, Sam and the Beyond Measure team value providing a service to the community around them, with presentations, supervision, and training for fellow eating disorder professionals, or by presenting on important preventative topics in partnership with our local schools, libraries, and social groups. Sam loves to connect with others via social media – you can see her work by following @SamTheDietitian, and @BeyondMeasureSFBay on Instagram.

Membership Chair Sara Leung, RD

Sara Leung is a Registered Dietitian, Nutrition Therapist and Consultant with a private practice based in the South Bay and able to work with clients in a variety of states across the country. She has worked in the field of eating disorders for 15 years and has specialized in eating disorder treatment for 12 years. In previous years Sara worked at Cielo House as their Lead Dietitian as well as consulted with various treatment programs in the Bay Area. She works from a HAES, anti-diet approach and believes in the individual approach to treatment as well as loves collaborating with other providers to provide the best care to her clients. She is working to become a Certified Intuitive Eating Counseling to expand her knowledge and expertise in treating clients along the entire eating disorder spectrum.

Hospitality Chair Arin Bass, LMFT

Arin has over 10 years of experience working as a psychotherapist with adolescents, adults, and families supporting people in healing their relationships with food, body, eating disorders, body image issues, alongside depression, anxiety, life stressors and transitions, and relationship issues. Currently she has a private Practice in Marin, CA. Arin has worked in a variety of treatment levels, from Inpatient to Residential treatment, Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient. Arin utilizes a multidisciplinary theoretical approach with emphases on Psychodynamic, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, EFFT, HAES® and Feminist Psychoanalytic models. She has tremendous passion for working with people who struggle from eating disorders. Arin believes that people have the capacity for change and that a trusting therapeutic relationship, specific skill sets, and hope are important components for recovery from an eating disorder. She is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the Hospitality Chair on the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, and she is the Sponsorship Chair on the board of Eating Disorder Recovery Support, Inc. Arin is working towards becoming a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist through IAEDP. 

Education Chair Tylynn Ludwig, RD

Tylynn Ludwig is a Registered Dietitian who completed her undergraduate degree in dietetics at the University of Wisconsin-Stout and her dietetic internship at the Minneapolis Veterans Affair Medical Center (VAMC). Furthering her education, Tylynn fulfilled a six-month nutrition fellowship at the San Francisco VAMC specializing in interdisciplinary outpatient treatment. Following several years of practice at the VA, Tylynn transitioned to Sutter Health where she settled into the role of Clinical Dietitian for the adolescent inpatient and partial hospitalization programs at Herrick of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley, CA. During Tylynn’s tenure, she gained valuable knowledge and experience working in eating disorders. Currently, Tylynn is a Registered Dietitian at The Healthy Teen Project and has a private practice in San Francisco, CA.

Social Media Chair Brianna Thompson

Having started her business career in a multi-media marketing role at NBC Connecticut, Brianna moved back to her home town in the Bay Area 5 years ago and began her true passion of working in the eating disorder treatment world. As the Regional Director of Outreach for Within Health, Brianna helps connect people with programs and collaborates with various community providers in order to make sure those that need treatment find the right fit for their specific behavioral health needs. She admires how genuinely passionate those that work in the eating disorder field are about their profession, and shares in the commitment to help families and clients navigate the challenging yet rewarding process of recovery.

Brianna is honored and excited to join IAEDP Bay Area’s wonderful board members this year and looks forward to participating in the events to come!

Medical Liaison Amanda Downey, MD

Amanda is an assistant professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at UCSF where she cares for adolescents and young adults with eating disorders. She works with patients and their families to develop a treatment plan that honors their unique strengths and challenges. Her research works to dismantle the systems that increase risk for eating disorders and improve evidence-based eating disorder treatments. She is the assistant medical director of the UCSF Eating Disorders Program and the medical lead of the UCSF Translational Psychedelic Research (TrPR) Program.