Valerie Wood Social Worker LCSW, LCADC

Valerie Wood, MSW, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in working with clients that are contemplating or who have had weight loss surgery. Ms. Wood also has extensive experience in the treatment of addictions and eating disorders. She holds a Masters in Social Work from Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, and is currently on the faculty at Bergen Community College in the department of Sociology and Behavioral Sciences. She has been a guest expert on eating disorders on television and radio talk shows, and has been active in community service including speaking tours at local high schools. Ms. Wood specializes in relapse prevention and will be facilitating a relapse prevention group for a prominant surgeon in Westchester County NY in the Spring of 2004. Finally she is a member in good standing of the National Association of Social Workers.