Nancy Ellis-Ordway, PhD, LCSW
Co-editor of Weight and Wisdom: Reflections on Decades of Working for Body Liberation
Nancy Ellis-Ordway, PhD, LCSW, (she/her) is a psychotherapist with more than 35 years’ experience, specializing in treating eating disorders, body image issues, stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship issues. She has a private practice in Jefferson City, MO.
In addition to a master of social work degree from Washington University and a PhD in health education and promotion from the University of Missouri, she completed the Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy training program at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute.
She has written chapters for five books and authored Thrive At Any Weight: Eating To Nourish Body, Soul, and Self Esteem (2019). She is the coeditor of Weight Bias in Health Education: Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice (2021) and the coauthor of “Weight Stigma as a Violation of the NASW Code of Ethics: A Call to Action” in The Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics (2022).