Dr. April Benson
Compulsive Buying Specialist
April Lane Benson, Ph.D., is a nationally known psychologist who specializes in the treatment of compulsive buying disorder. She has been in private practice in New York City for over 30 years. Co-founder of the Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia, the oldest outpatient eating disorders clinic in New York, Dr. Benson also serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy.
Dr. Benson graduated cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University, and has earned a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Ferkauf Graduate School, Yeshiva University. She holds post-graduate certificates in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis from the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, in the Treatment of Eating Disorders from the Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia, and in Spirituality and Psychotherapy from the Blanton-Peale Institute for Pastoral Counseling.
Dr. Benson has appeared widely in the media. Her most recent television appearances were on "My Strange Addiction," "The Bank of Mom and Dad," "ABC News Now," "Good Morning America" and "The Today Show." Recent radio interviews were heard on "Your Money with David Holland," "Marc Sussman's Money Message" on Air America, "The Peter Walsh Show" on Oprah and Friends radio, "The Jean Chatzky Show" on Oprah and Friends Radio." Quoted in The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, she has also been referenced in Money Magazine, Kiplinger Personal Finance,Simple Living, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Redbook,Marie Claire, and a variety of internet publications.
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Dr. Benson will be doing a weekend workshop for overshoppers at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, October 21-23, 2011. for details, Click here
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Dr. Benson's new book, To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop, draws on recent reserach and on decades of working with overshoppers, and brings together key insights with practical strategies in a powerful program to help overshoppers stop overshopping. As they progress through the book, they take back control of their shopping and spending and create a rich, more meaningful and satisfying life. Dr. Benson is also offering a fully-assembled shopping journal that's an optional companion to the new book. There is also a comprehensive resource center on the website, offering resources, treatment centers, books, videos, and relevant organizations.
View Dr. April Benson's new book, To Buy or Not to Buy:Why We Overshop and How to Stop
To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop is now available digitally as an ebook at the following sites:
View Dr. April Benson's Shopping Journal, which accompany To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop
Dr. Benson's first book, I Shop, Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self (Aronson, 2000), takes a multidisciplinary approach to the problem of compulsive buying. It includes contributions from the fields of sociology, consumer behavior, marketing, community education, psychology, and psychiatry. Her chapter in Addictions: A Practical Handbook (Wiley, 2004), reviews the forms of treatment that are currently available for compulsive buying disorder and suggests the most effective way to formulate a treatment plan. In the March-April issue of the Psychotherapy Networker, Dr. Benson has written an article titled "To Buy or Not to Buy," which addresses the fact that there's much more to shopping than meets the eye. She outlines what shopping can provide and writes about mindful shopping. She's recently written two more chapters in academic books, one about social costs, social factors and public policy about compulsive buying and the other is a case repot.
Get more information on Dr. April Benson's book, I Shop, Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self!
Concerned about your buying behavior? For a free self-assessment, Who Needs Help? 3 Ways to Know, go to http://shopaholicnomore.com
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Recently launched is "Stop the Shopping Insanity," a series of 3 one-hour conversations that Dr. Benson had with women who share the simple, yet profoundly successful strategies they used for overcoming their debt problems forever. You'll also see Dr. Benson working with two women around purchases they made that they later regretted in the free 14-minute video that comes with the conversations. For details, go to http://shopaholicnomore.com/secrets/
Dr. Benson has taught therapists at a number of postgraduate institutes and college counseling centers about compulsive buying and its treatment. She offers a 4-session didactic course to therapists and a 12-week experiential training seminar for therapists that want to use the treatment model that she's developed. For information on therapist training, go to: www.shopaholicnomore.com/for-therapists/
She also offers an online course, I Shop Therefore I Am: Understanding and Treating Compulsive Buying. For details go to www.PsyBC.com and a thirteen-week training seminar for therapists who want to learn about the treatment model that Dr. Benson uses. She maintains a private practice in New York City where she works with individuals and small groups and does educational coaching for stopping overshopping by telephone with overshoppers around the country.
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Dr. Benson graduated cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University, and has earned a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Ferkauf Graduate School, Yeshiva University. She holds post-graduate certificates in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis from the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, in the Treatment of Eating Disorders from the Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia, and in Spirituality and Psychotherapy from the Blanton-Peale Institute for Pastoral Counseling.
For past media featuring Dr. April Benson, visit: http://www.shopaholicnomore.com/press-kit/
For recent and upcoming media, visit: http://www.shopaholicnomore.com/press-kit/upcoming-media