About

Margit I. Berman has a Ph.D. in counseling and social psychology from the University of Minnesota. She is currently Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Augsburg University and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.  She is the author of A Clinician’s Guide to Acceptance-Based Approaches for Weight Concerns: The Accept Yourself! Framework (Routledge, 2018) and A Workbook of Acceptance-Based Approaches for Weight Concerns: The Accept Yourself! Framework (Routledge, 2018). She received the 2021 National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology’s President’s Leadership Award for her work developing and launching the Clinical Psychology PsyD Training Program at Augsburg University. She was a 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. She is 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 feminist, cognitive-behavioral therapist who trains clinicians in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and self-acceptance based interventions throughout the U.S.

Fees and Insurance

At this time, my rates are $195 for an initial assessment and treatment plan, $195 per 45-minute individual psychotherapy or 50-minute couples or family therapy session, and $125 per session for Accept Yourself! group therapy. Training and individual supervision for clinicians is also offered at $195 per hour, or $125 per hour for a supervision group. I accept credit cards and HSA/FSA payments, and can provide documentation for you to submit to your insurance for reimbursement of my fees as an out-of-network provider. At this time, I am not an in-network provider on any insurance panels.