Banding Together

Banding Together: Support for the Gastric Band Community, is for anyone with a Lap-Band™ or a Realize Band™ or an interest in adjustable gastric banding as a weight loss alternative. Gastric band patients who get coaching have better results with the band. Support is crucial to having a successful and satisfying life with a band. Dr. Robbie is an internationally certified coach, a licensed clinical psychologist, a specialist in emotional eating issues and a successful lap-band surgery recipient herself. She deeply understands the issues that are unique to bariatric surgery patients. Dr. Robbie is the owner and founder of Centered Coaching and the creator of Banding Together™: Supporting the Gastric Band Community. She is an expert on non-dieting approaches to emotional eating. She has led lap-band support groups, mindfulness and emotional eating awareness groups both in the Chicago area and nationally by teleconference. In addition, she travels to California several times a year to participate in retreats with her mentor, renouned author and teacher Geneen Roth. Dr. Robbie has been a consultant to some of the best-known bariatric centers in the U.S.A. and served on the faculty of Chicago Medical School for 16 years. She is the author of Banding Together™: The Newsletter for the Lap-Band Community and the forthcoming book The Unofficial Lap-Band Owner’s Manual. Dr. Robbie coaches clients in her Highland Park office and worldwide by phone. She also leads lap-band support groups both locally and worldwide by phone.