One of the area’s top experts in addiction medicine, eating disorders and psychotherapy, Jyotika Vazirani, PMHNP, CS-P, BC, is starting a new therapeutic group for women “Me, My Body and Alcohol”. Part of Vazirani’s private practice, the ongoing weekly group will serve women for whom drinking is starting to negatively impact their health, relationships, work or how they feel in their bodies.
Vazirani identifies the ideal “Me, My Body & Alcohol” group member as “looking for insight into what they really need and how to get it healthfully”. Vazirani adds, “this is so women can have genuine emotional support, open up to their joy and share their worries.”
Limited to 8 committed women, “Me, My Body & Alcohol” will meet Tuesday afternoons at 2:30 pm for 75 minutes at a cost of $85 per session. Vazirani states, “this group is for women ready to make an investment in themselves.” In accordance with Covid-19 restrictions, the group is currently meeting online using a HIPAA-compliant software.
Meet Your Moderator: Jyotika Vazirani
Vazirani led top local intensive outpatient programs for alcohol and eating disorders, most recently as Medical Director and Consultant at Aquila Recovery-DC. She has been Psychiatric Director at Body Image Therapy Center in DC’s Woodley Park, Clinical Director at Kolmac Clinic on K Street in Washington and a Consultant to the DC Board of Nursing. She has maintained her private nurse practitioner practice since 2004.
Jyotika Vazirani has been sharing her own research about inflammation, mental health, and alcohol’s impact on the body for at least 20 years. Her own interest was sparked by her family’s and her own personal history as well as working as a nurse and wanting to be on the side of prevention and positive mental health. She integrates traditional psychiatry with integrative/functional psychiatry, sexual health, healthy lymphatic and hormonal health, and everyday lifestyle decisions. Her goal is that she and her patients make informed choices that improve authentic quality of life. She believes we should not feel that there are “good or bad” choices but, ideally, choices that can be personal, mindful, intentional and based on how we listen to our own bodies and our needs. Her life’s work has led her to achieve specialization in psychopharmacology, individual and group psychotherapy, sexual health, couples and family therapy, ecological impacts, and financial recovery as she believes all our choices and mindsets come together to provide a total quality of life.
Education
Jyotika received her BA from Bates College (Rhetoric, Japanese), has her BSN from Howard University (Nursing), her MSN from University of MD - Baltimore (Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing), and was privileged to have been a US House Rep Page during High School.
Personal
When not in DC hanging out with her husband and son, she is reading, on her SUP, or trying to play golf.
Meet Your Moderator: Sarah Moore
An athlete, mom, wife and DC native, Jyotika Vazirani will be joined by another athlete, mom, wife and DC native, Sarah Moore, A Licensed Professional Counselor in private practice in Arlington, Virginia. Moore created and led “Rethinking Your Drinking”, a therapeutic book club for women, and co-led support groups for Postpartum Support Virginia for several years. Her more than five decades in the region enable her to call on many experiences and resources for clients.
Education
Sarah received her BA from Washington College (Political Science) and obtained her masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Marymount University, during which she worked at Kolmac Clinic - DC and was elected to Chi Sigma Iota, the honor society for the counseling profession.
Personal
When not at work, the tennis court is often where you can find her. There, or walking her dogs, Goldie and Rafa.
Me, My Body & Alcohol
For more information about “Me, My Body & Alcohol” and to arrange for an interview, please email: hello@sarahmoorelpc.com