Francie White, M.S.
Registered Dietitian

Francie White has a bachelor’s degree in health science from U.C. Santa Barbara and a master’s degree in Nutrition Science.  She is a Registered Dietitian with extensive counseling experience.

Francie White has specialized in all types of eating disorders, exercise disorders and body dysmorphia for 25 years.  In addition to having a longstanding private practice in Santa Barbara, she has traveled extensively throughout the United States teaching professionals how to treat eating disorders and giving workshops with and for those suffering from them. 

Initially, she gave Breaking Free Workshops for best selling author Geneen Roth, which were based upon Geneen’s book, Breaking Free from Compulsive Overeating.  Francie then created her own professional trainings through Inner Escapes, a company she founded in 1993, where she taught with well known authors Carolyn Costin (The Eating Disorder Sourcebook) and Anita Johnston (Eating in the Light of the Moon).  These training's combined the latest cognitive behavioral therapies alongside Jungian mythology, ritual, and life changing inspirational processes.

Francie has also given lectures and interviews on television, including CNN, as well as newspapers, including a piece on Exercise Resistance in the NY Times.  Three years ago, she and her husband, therapist Terry White, decided to travel less and open the Central Coast Intensive Outpatient Program, where she could put her expertise to work for three local cities.  She continues to lecture and write as well as devote her attention to the prevention and treatment of eating disorders.