Bio

Tara Deliberto, PhD, is a spiritually-inclined, transpersonal, clinical psychologist who is also a speaker, author, retreat leader, and former faculty member of Cornell University’s Medical College.  Dr. Tara created and published a treatment for eating disorders with New Harbinger in 2019, which was translated into Spanish last year.  Earlier in her career at Harvard University, Dr. Tara published research on suicide and self-injury that is now widely cited in the academic literature. Outside of her research & practice as a psychologist treating clinical populations, Dr. Tara’s personal focus is on developing practical methods for transcending ego towards the end of spiritual expansion of consciousness.  Tara’s new book “The Three-Step Method to Raising Consciousness: A Modern Spiritual Method for Transcending the Modern Ego” will be published next year.  

Background

While in her academic role on faculty at Cornell, Dr. Tara felt intuitively compelled to create Integrative Modalities Therapy (IMT), a flexible and easy-to-implement treatment for eating disorders, which are notoriously difficult to treat and deadly. IMT was published by New Harbinger at the end of 2019, just prior to eating disorder rates nearly tripling during the pandemic. The Spanish translation of IMT was made available in 2023. IMT is now used all over the world to treat people with eating disorders. Being a leading expert on eating disorders - which are ego based - serves as the perfect background for developing a method to transcend the ego more broadly.

Prior her work in eating disorders, Tara served as the senior laboratory manager at the Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Research at Harvard University, where she helped conduct studies on borderline personality disorder, suicide, self-injurious behaviors. She has also held leadership positions in the Academy for Eating Disorders as well as the New York City CBT Association, and served on the editorial board of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention. Her work has been widely cited in the academic literature (see Google Scholar page) and has been discussed in major media outlets such as the Harvard Gazette, Science Daily, and TIME.