Ariana Elias

Since commencing clinical practice in 2002, Ariana Elias has worked within the field of body image and eating disorders in a variety of community and specialist services, in both the public and private sector.

In 2015, Ariana developed Raising Body-Confident Kids, a body image prevention program for parents and primary school aged children.

From 2019-2024 Ariana served as Chair of the Private Practice Significant Interest Group for the Australia & New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders.

In 2021, Ariana founded Tikvah Clinic with the hope of creating a specialised eating disorder multidisciplinary outpatient clinic. Tikvah Clinic provides patients and their families supportive, holistic, individualised and innovative treatments. Ariana also developed the Angels program with a focus on providing outpatient support to individuals wishing to recover in the community. The Angels are selected from the lived experience and allied health community. They continue to provide hope to patients as well as assisting them with all the tasks needed for outpatient success.

In 2023, Ariana completed her training with the Ketamine Training Centre and offers Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) to individuals with difficult to treat depression and eating disorders. She has also completed Psychedelic Assisted Therapy training and works at the Evolution Medicine Enhanced Therapy Clinic providing novel medicines to individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), treatment resistant depression (TRD) and eating disorders.

Ariana is a trauma informed therapist and has completed clinical training in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT, CBT-E), Trauma-Focused CBT, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM), Family Based Treatment (FBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR).

Ariana has full registration with the Psychology Board of Australia and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency with clinical endorsement (PSY0001194805). Ariana is a credentialed Eating Disorder Practitioner.

Media Links:

Podcast: Innovative Approaches to Eating Disorder Treatment

Kinderling Conversation: Encouraging Body Confidence in Kids