About Lisa
Lisa Mikus, RD, CNSC, CDN (she/her/hers) is a licensed Registered Dietitian who specializes in treating children, adolescents, and adults with eating disorders in New York and New Jersey. Lisa has extensive experience providing nutritional counseling to individuals with Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED), disordered eating, and orthorexia. She also has worked extensively with individuals who struggle with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), individuals with food phobias, and those engaging in compulsive exercise or an unhealthy relationship with movement.
Lisa’s Approach
Lisa is passionate about helping individuals improve their relationship with food and body. She believes in an individualized nutrition approach tailored to each client’s needs, lifestyle, and readiness for change. In her sessions, she strives to provide a safe space so her clients feel comfortable and understood.
Lisa’s treatment framework includes a non-diet and weight-inclusive approach and uses evidence-based treatment principles to effectively assess clients from both physiological and behavioral standpoints. Taking into account the client’s nutritional, medical and behavioral needs, she then translates this information into a personalized nutrition treatment plan.
She approaches each session with a non-judgmental and warm outlook. Lisa believes in creating a welcoming space inclusive of diversity in gender identity, race, age, sexual orientation, body size and shape, physical ability, ethnicity, and religious beliefs. Lisa actively collaborates with members of a client’s treatment team including psychologists, social workers, primary care doctors, pediatricians, endocrinologists, and psychiatrists to provide integrated care for each client.
Lisa’s Background & experience in treating Eating Disorders
Lisa graduated from The University of Texas at Austin where she earned a Bachelor of Science in the Coordinated Program in Dietetics and completed over 1200 hours of supervised practice as a dietetic intern. She gained invaluable experience as a Clinical Dietitian in the NICU at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, and Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. After learning more deeply about the complexities of eating disorders and the unique and crucial role Registered Dietitians hold as part of a collaborative care team, she transitioned to working primarily with individuals with eating disorders and those in pursuit of healing their relationship with food, body, and movement.
Recently, Lisa acted as the Nutrition Coordinator of the Eating and Weight Disorders Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. During this time, she provided nutritional counseling for children, adolescents and their caregivers in Family-Based Treatment (FBT) for eating disorders as well individuals with Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa, ARFID, and those with extreme food phobias. Through training, supervision, and involvement in research at Mount Sinai, she became well-versed in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E). Lisa counseled many clients with eating disorders and complex co-occuring conditions such as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, Personality Disorders, and Trauma. Prior to opening Lisa Mikus Nutrition Therapy, she was part of an eating disorder-focused nutrition practice for seven years in New York and New Jersey.
Lisa holds a Certified Nutrition Support Clinician (CNSC) credential established by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN). Lisa is in the final steps of receiving her Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian (CEDRD) credential which requires 2500 supervised patient care hours directly in the field of eating disorders. She currently acts as the Education Chair of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP) NY Chapter. Lisa is a member of the International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians (IFEDD) and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND).
In 2017, her co-authored book, Everyday Diabetes Meals: Cooking for One or Two was published. Lisa is passionate about offering science-backed nutrition and rebuking diet culture in the press.
