Dr. Vivian Diller is a media consultant, writer, and clinical psychologist who focuses on body image, self-esteem, age, and the psychological effects of beauty and appearance. She privately practices psychotherapy which deals with individuals, couples, and families. Her practice focuses more on emotional aspects, identity-based, relationship-based, and life transition-centered, but it puts a lot of emphasis on how mental health is affected by societal norms. She has been working in New York City over decades, providing therapeutic and psychological services.
Dr. Diller has served in a variety of different roles in clinical practice, consulting, and media. She works as a psychological consultant to the big world brands in the beauty, fashion, and healthcare industries, including Procter and Gamble, Unilever, and Estée Lauder. Besides having her own practice, she also works as a columnist on sites such as Psychology Today and HuffPost, and also in large television networks, such as NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, and CNN, as a mental health expert.
She also received her Ph.D. in psychology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, did her clinical training at St. Luke-Roosevelt Hospital, and went on to receive postdoctoral training in psychoanalysis at New York University.
Dr. Diller has a history of over 30 years of experience combining clinical activity, research, and education of the population. She has authored a lot concerning the psychological issues of appearance, aging, and identity. Her first book, Face It: What Women Really Feel As Their Looks Change, is a well-known work that has been translated into various languages and has been discussed on the major media outlets. This belief is one of the reasons why one of her popular quotes is that we owe it to ourselves to seek an alternative way of feeling beautiful instead of attempting to reverse the clock.
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