Melissa McCreery, PhD, ACC, is a Psychologist, ICF Certified Life Coach, Emotional Eating and Self Care Expert for Entrepreneurs and Professional Women, and the founder of TooMuchOnHerPlate.com, a company dedicated to helping women worldwide achieve their goals with health, weight and emotional eating. She specializes in helping smart savvy women who’ve found success in other areas, conquer that “last frontier”—making peace with their own eating and ending weight loss battles once and for all while creating the lifestyle they hunger for.
Dr. McCreery has specific expertise in emotional eating and helping women target the specific reasons they overeat, as well as creating effective, individualized approaches to long term weight loss. She is regarded as an expert at helping women enhance their self-care and create powerful change.
Melissa is a featured columnist for WLS (Weight Loss Success) Lifestyles magazine where she is also a member of the editorial advisory board and is the Self-care expert at Best Life Design and a columnist at Self-Help Online and numerous other online wellness websites.
Find out more and pick up a free audio series: “5 simple steps to move beyond overwhelm with food and life” at http://TooMuchOnHerPlate.com.
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