Amy Ruffolo Quinn, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist with a private practice in El Segundo, California. She is also the founder of Your Beautiful Beginning, LLC, where she leads Wild Dolphin Wellness Retreats that weave together somatic healing, nature, and the medicine of joy.

 

Amy’s work lives at the intersection of mind, body, and soul. She specializes in eating disorders, exercise addiction, psychedelic integration, substance use, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and healing our most intimate relationships, including the one we hold with ourselves. She often integrates joyful movement into her sessions, helping clients move energy through the body, expand their emotional capacity, and reconnect with the parts of themselves that have long asked for tenderness.

 

As a mother and graduate of the Postpartum Action Institute, Amy is deeply devoted to supporting prenatal and postpartum women. She understands how pregnancy and new motherhood can feel especially vulnerable for those with a history of disordered eating. Her work centers on helping clients attune to their body’s cues, feel safe within themselves, and nourish both body and spirit during this profound transition.

 

Amy’s lifelong bond with dolphins is a grounding part of her therapeutic lens. Their playful nature, fluidity, and embodied joy act as a mirror for what becomes possible in healing: ease, connection, curiosity, and a return to the body as a place of pleasure and aliveness. Dolphins symbolize a way of being that Amy helps her clients reclaim a way of living that is free, attuned, and joyfully connected.

In recovery from an eating disorder, many of Amy’s clients naturally experience an awakening in sensuality, desire, and vitality. The capacity to trust self expands deeply!