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Allison Grupski, PhD
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Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Il

Dr. Grupski is a recent graduate from the Counseling Psychology program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed her pre-doctoral internship training at the James A. Haley VA Hospital in Tampa, Fl and she is currently a postdoctoral fellow working in the division of Psychosocial Oncology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Il. As a graduate student, her research centered on how motivation for exercise and different types of physical activity are associated with outcomes such as disordered eating, habitual body monitoring, and appearance anxiety in college women. She is especially interested in how certain types of exercise participation (e.g., yoga, resistance training) can encourage the internalization of body attitudes that are focused on competence rather than appearance.

During her time at the University of Illinois, Dr. Grupski served as the coordinator and developer of outreach efforts focused on disordered eating and body image concerns in the university population and in local secondary schools. In this position, she developed educational and insight-oriented programming efforts for diverse populations and spearheaded a multi-modal effort to address concerns of over-exercise in campus fitness facilities. Her clinical interests center around binge and emotional eating, mindfulness interventions, preparation for bariatric surgery, health behavior change, and adjustment to cancer for individuals and families.