Dina Zeckhausen grew up in New Hampshire and attended Williams College. She received her doctoral degree in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina in 1990 and interned at the Georgia State University Counseling Center. In 1990, she and her husband, psychologist Gerald Drose, established Powers Ferry Psychological Associates, a private practice which today includes twenty psychologists with various specialties and areas of expertise.

In 1996, she founded the Eating Disorders Information Network (EDIN) a non-profit devoted to raising awareness of eating disorders. That year she wrote the play “What’s Eating Katie?” soon followed by Full Mouse, Empty Mouse (Magination Press, 2007) the first children’s book addressing eating problems in kids. Since 1999 she has developed eating disorder prevention programs for high schools, middle schools and elementary schools, as well as for moms of young daughters. She presents on eating disorders to educators and parents, ‘tweens, teens and college students, as well as community groups, corporations and professional conferences. She has brought her prevention programs to schools from the Upper East Side of Manhattan to the heart of Hollywood.

Her greatest sources of joy are her husband, Gerald; her two sons, Cooper and Schuyler; and her step-son, Oliver.