Betsy Ryland, Ph.D
Greg Cox, Ph.D
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Obesity2Balance

Bariatric Psychology for Living Well
Bariatric Psychology for Living Well

Psychological support & skills

for optimal success

before and after weight-loss surgery.

Weight-loss surgery (WLS) opens a door for you, and you step through it to create your new life of healthy weight maintenance. WLS is an exciting and challenging life transforming opportunity.

But do you know what steps are needed for success and life-long weight maintenance?

Do you have the life-skills for this new world? Are you prepared to make the most of your WLS? Do you have what you need to do to reclaim your health and your new life?

Our services are specifically designed to address your needs as you step through the WLS door to create your healthy balance for life-long weight maintenance.

You Are Not Alone

At Obesity2Balance, Drs. Betsy Ryland and Greg Cox are committed to helping you reach and maintain your goals for healthy life-long weight maintenance.

Betsy and Greg are psychologists, specializing in bariatric psychology, with extensive experience with WLS patients.
 
We work as a team to offer you the most up-to-date information and treatment available from bariatric psychological research combined with a heartfelt compassion for folks who struggle with obesity.

The psychological and educational services of Obesity2Balance are specifically designed to assist you before and after WLS surgery. Before surgery, Obesity2Balance helps you become emotionally and psychologically prepared for the amazing, exciting, challenging, life-transforming journey of weight loss surgery. After surgery, Obesity2Balance offers support for your healthy balance for life-long weight maintenance and living well.

Obesity2Balance offers services for all the steps in your WLS journey.

Choose Obesity2Balance when:
  • You want your psychological evaluation done by psychologists who are experts in bariatric psychology.
    Psychological Evaluation
  • You want psychologists who understand the sensitive issues of obesity.
    About Us
  • You want psychologists who have a practice dedicated to bariatric psychology.
    What is Bariatric Psychology?
  • You want an effective workshop so you can be as psychologically educated and ready for the WLS experience as possible.
    O2B Seminars
  • You are geographically distant from support groups and you need coaching by phone or TeleConferencing.
    O2B TeleCoaching | O2B Teleconferencing
  • You have already had your WLS, experienced success, but hit a weight loss plateau and need some support or information to get moving again.
    O2b TeleCoaching | O2B Teleconferencing
  • You find that a support group meets many of your needs after surgery but is "not enough", and you know you need the extra push of telecoaching or a workshop to keep on track.
    O2B TeleCoaching | O2B Seminars
  • You are struggling with unexpected depression or anxiety after WLS and you want to turn to someone who can evaluate your particular needs and make practical recommendations.
    Psychological Evaluation
  • You want a workshop in which you can learn new life-skills to complement and add vitality to your new life!
    O2B Seminars

Obesity is a symptom of being out of balance-out of balance with your body's finely tuned system of weight management.

We designed Obesity2Balance services to address your needs as you step through the WLS door to create your healthy balance for life-long weight maintenance.

We are touched by the courage, discipline and heart you bring to your journey with weight loss surgery.

We want to assist you each step of your way from obesity back to your healthy balance for life-long weight maintenance and health.



To Email:

Greg Cox, Ph.D., Psychologist
Betsy Ryland, Ph.D., Psychologist

3226 Hampton Ave.
Suite F
Brunswick, GA 31522
912.264.9724 (phone)



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