Margit Berman, PhD

Margit I. Berman, PhD, LP, is a clinician, researcher, professor, trainer, and author of A Clinician’s Guide to Acceptance-Based Approaches for Weight Concerns: The Accept Yourself! Framework and A Workbook of Acceptance-Based Approaches for Weight Concerns: The Accept Yourself! Framework. She was recipient of the 2015 Hitchcock Foundation Scholars Career Development award for her research and development of the Accept Yourself! Intervention for large-bodied women with depression.

Currently associate professor of clinical psychology at Augsburg University and assistant professor of psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, she is also past chair of the Society for Counseling Psychology’s Section for the Promotion of Psychotherapy Science and former associate editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology. She is a member of the Association for Size Diversity and Health and has researched, taught, and given presentations on ACT and other self-acceptance-based approaches nationally and internationally for the past fifteen years.

Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Margit Berman has employment relationships with Augsburg University and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She receives royalties as a published author. Margit Berman receives a speaking honorarium. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Margit Berman is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Contextual Behavior Science, and the Association for Size Diversity and Health.