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413 Area Code

Northampton, MA (scan down)

Walden Behavioral Care

Director of Outpatient Programs, Northampton: Jennifer Smith

109 Main Street, Northampton, MA

Additional Communities Served: Pioneer Valley/Berkshires including Amherst, Easthampton, Holyoke, Hadley, Hatfield, Chicopee, Greenfield, Deerfield, Granby, Belchertown, Ludlow, Wilbraham, Springfield, Longmeadow, Agawam, Westfield, Lenox, Lee, Adams, North Adams, Pittsfield, South Deerfield

Phone: 413-582-0100 

Website: www.waldenbehavioralcare.com 

Email: jsmith@waldenbehavioralcare.com 

Walden Behavioral Care, LLC of Waltham, MA, is one of the country’s leading hospitals for treating eating disorders. Walden treats a variety of eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, a psychological disorder characterized by an aversion to eating and fear of gaining weight; bulimia nervosa, a condition where sufferers typically purge food they have eaten by self-induced vomiting, use of laxatives or other means, and binge eating disorder, which is characterized by uncontrollable, excessive eating.

Walden, which opened in 2003 at the former Waltham Hospital (now known as Children's Hospital Boston at Waltham), developed a "whole health" treatment approach. Walden is among only a few healthcare providers in the country to offer a full "continuum of care" for treating eating disorders. It provides in-patient care, residential, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient care at its Waltham facility, in addition to psychiatric care. Recognizing that many patients with eating disorders also have psychiatric disorders and vice versa, Walden treats co-occurring disorders concurrently. Walden treats each patient's medical needs, as well as providing behavioral therapy and nutritional programs. The Northampton facility is Walden's first satellite program, treating adults and adolescents as young as 13. Treatment programs include a partial hospitalization program, which provides care for six hours a day, five days a week for each patient; and intensive outpatient care, which provides care for three hours an evening for three evenings a week for each patient. Program staff in Northampton include a nutritionist, a psychiatrist, an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), social workers, mental-health counselors and an office manager.  For more information about our eating disorders treatment program in Northampton, call the Jennifer Smith at 413-582-0100 or send an email to jsmith@waldenbehavioralcare.com.

Williamstown, MA (scan down)

Hallie D'Agruma, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist,  License #017103-1

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Outpatient, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy, Group Therapy, Support Groups

132 Water Street, Williamstown, MA

Additional Communities Served: Bennington, VT

Office: 413-650-5611

Website: www.dagruma.com

Email: drhdagruma@gmail.com

Treatment Model: Dr. D'Agruma works out of a psychodynamic perspective, promoting insight and greater self-knowledge, while drawing on techniques from other schools of psychological thought (cognitive-behavioral, etc.) in order to encourage action and change in day to day life. She sees the person as a person-in-context and strives to understand the biological/physical, familial, cultural, social, interpersonal, and intrapersonal influences on the individual and seeks to integrate these perspectives into how the patient comes to know his/herself and to work through the eating disorder.

Dr. D'Agruma treats Anorexia and Bulimia; males and females, adolescents, and adults. She also works with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, Compulsive Overeating, Night Eating Syndrome, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1999

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Sliding Scale

Dr. Hallie D'Agruma has extensive training in the treatment of eating disorders and specializes in helping people overcome anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, emotional eating, compulsive exercise, body image disturbance/dissatisfaction. She also has experience working with athletes and performing artists and with women around issues of pregnancy and motherhood. She is sensitive to issues of culture and diversity-as well as those of power and control, which often underlie the eating disorder, and works with both women and men on eating and body image issues. She is currently accepting new patients and will work with them to set a fee on a sliding scale (if necessary) and will work with the insurance companies in order for patients to obtain reimbursement for seeing her out of network.

508 and 774 Area Codes

Natick, MA (scan down)

Laurel Watt-Aldredge, Psy.D.,  License #8784

I have quite a bit of experience working with anxiety and mood disorders co-occurring with eating disorders. In addition, I have worked extensively with pre- and post-gastric bypass patients. I also have training and experience in Behavioral Medicine and experience: treating chronic pain, insomnia, chronic illness, cancer diagnoses, cardiac conditions, stress-related physical conditions, infertility, and smoking cessation. Anyone with health-related emotional distress or wanting to make health-related behavioral changes might benefit from my Behavioral Medicine background. I have a particular interest in grief and loss as well.

Janet Weathers, Psy.D.,  License #7940

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Outpatient, Hypnosis, Couples Therapy

99 East Central Street, Natick, MA

Additional Communities Served: Natick, Wellesley, Wayland, Framingham, Sherborn

Office: 508-650-3800 

Website: www.dr-weathers.com

Treatment Model: I use a combination of cognitive/behavioral and Internal Family Systems (IFS) approaches. Cognitive/behavioral approaches focus on understanding the hidden or repetitive thought patterns that may maintain behaviors or suffering. IFS is a gentle exploration of the various parts of oneself that may at times seem unruly, out of character, or may provide motivation for unwanted behaviors. This is a collaborative and non-pathologizing form of therapy in which clients access an innate Self, a core of compassion and leadership qualities. Working from this core of compassion, the client brings balance, acceptance, and healing to parts of himself or herself that may have experienced shame, hurt or overwhelming emotions.

Dr. Weathers treats Anorexia and Bulimia in adult men and women. She also works with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, Night Eating Syndrome, Compulsive Overeating and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1999

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Insurance, Medicare, Blue Cross insurances are accepted. Other insurances may also be possible.

617 Area Code

Belmont, MA (scan down)

McLean Hospital's Klarman Eating Disorder Center

Email: klarmancenter@mclean.org

Boston, MA (scan down)

648 Beacon Street, Boston, MA

Additional Communities Served: Brookline, Newton, Cambridge

Office: 617-353-9610

Website: www.bu.edu/card/clinical/eating.html

Treatment Model: The Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) Eating Disorders Program is committed to the provision of empirically-supported outpatient psychotherapy for eating disorders and co-occurring mood and anxiety issues, including cognitive-behavioral therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, dialectical-behavioral therapy, and integrative treatments. Free and low-cost treatment with qualified experts is available due to the support of research and academic funding.

The CARD Eating Disorders Program treats Anorexia, Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder in adolescent and adult women.

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 2002

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Credit Cards, Sliding Scale

Brookline, MA (scan down)

Alexis M. Beck, MPH, RD, LDN

Nutrition Rx/Nutrition and Diet Counseling Associates

Nutritional Counseling and Education, Individual Therapy, Support Groups, Outpatient, Phone Counseling

1051 Beacon Street, Suite 510, Brookline, MA

Additional Communities Served: Boston, Newton, Cambridge, Wellesley, Chestnut Hill, Weston, Cambridge Boston University Boston College Babson College The Winsor School The Commonwealth School

Website: www.nutritionrx.com

Email: mynutritionist@nutritionrx.com

Ms. Beck treats Anorexia and Bulimia; males and females, children, adolescents, and adults. She also works with Compulsive Exercisers, Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, Pica, Night Eating Syndrome, Compulsive Overeating, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1985

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Credit Cards (Visa or MasterCard), Sliding Scale

Using a high touch and perceptive individuated approach, Alexis Beck has the ability to help you finally find resolution after you have been challenged by hospitalizations, in patient and IOP's and countless therapies. She works with a very talented psychiatrist whose services are an option...you will be embraced by an integrated approach that is psychodynamic, yes, but deftly integrates Cognitive Behavioral and DBT subtlety...Alexis is not afraid to step outside the traditional lines to help you get to the nucleus of what seems to be a hopeless repetitive pattern...She is a clinical nutritionist with strong training in CBT, DBT and interactive Counseling. She welcomes you into her offices full of possibility, hope and resolution...

Nancy Clark, MS, RD, Sports Nutritionist

Sports Nutrition Services, Healthworks

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Nutritional Counseling, Outpatient, Inpatient, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy, Group Therapy, Support Groups

1300 Boylston Street Route 9 Brookline, MA

Additional Communities Served: Belmont, Boston, Cambridge, Newton, Wellesley, and surrounding areas

Office: 617-795-1875 

Website: www.nancyclarkrd.com

Email: nclarkrd@rcn.com

Treatment Model: Nutrition Counseling combining non-diet approach with Cognitive Behavioral, Stages of Change, Motivational Counseling, listening and caring.

Ms. Clark treats Anorexia and Bulimia; males and females, adolescents, and adults. She also works with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Binge Eating Disorder, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1980

Payment Options: Cash/Check

As a sports nutritionist, I enjoying helping competitive athletes, compulsive exercisers and fitness exercises transform their fears about food being the fattening enemy into peaceful fueling practices. My book, Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook, Third Edition (available via www.nancyclarkrd.com) includes a strong section on weight and body image issues including how to lose weight and have energy to exercise and how to overcome disordered eating practices.

Nutrition and Exercise Workshops: Finding the right balance of food and exercise is a struggle for many people with eating disorders. This workshop, featuring sports nutritionist Nancy Clark RD, CSSD and exercise physiologist William Evans PhD, includes abundant information to help transform compulsive exercisers into well fueled athletes. Helpful information for health professionals as well as clients themselves. Please see www.sportsnutritionworkshop.com for complete information.

Newton-Wellesley Eating Disorders and Behavioral Medicine

Director: Perry L. Belfer

Outpatient services include: Individual confidential patient consultation; Consultation to families and health care professionals; Individual, family treatment; Psychiatric evaluation and psychopharmacologic treatment (to individuals in psychotherapy in our practice); Nutritional counseling; as well as Case management and treatment coordination.

Cambridge, MA (scan down)

Kate Aisenberg PsyD, PhD, Clinical Psychologist

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Outpatient, Couples Therapy

59 Church Street, Suite 4, Cambridge, MA

Additional Communities Served: Boston, Somerville, Newton, Brookline, Arlington

Office: 617-492-4662

Treatment Model: Her approach is a combination of psychodynamic psychology and cognitive behavior therapy.

Dr. Aisenberg treats Anorexia and Bulimia with adult and adolescent women. She also works with Binge Eating Disorder and Obesity.

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1995

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Sliding Scale

Dr. Aisenberg is an experienced psychologist interested especially in treating professional, students and recent mothers. She has worked in a range of settings, from hospitals to universities. Her approach focuses on viewing your eating disorder as a way of coping with intense feelings which you feel you cannot contain. When eating disorders diminish in therapy, Dr. Aisenberg can focus on what lies beyond them and how to address the feelings of deprivation they often reveal.

Website: www.marciRD.com  

Email: marci@marciRD.com

Treatment Model: My goal is to take a collaborative approach in working with my clients and their other treatment providers. I use a non-diet approach to food and nutrition while combining cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, motivational counseling, and goal setting. Through open communication and building bonds of trust, I work closely with my clients to create a nutrition plan that meets their needs and helps them move along the road to recovery.

Ms. Anderson treats Anorexia and Bulimia in adolescent and adult women. She also works with Compulsive Exercisers, Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, Compulsive Overeating and Pica.

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 2005

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Sliding Scale

Director: Seda Ebrahimi, Ph.D.

Residential Program, Partial Hospitalization Program, Intensive Outpatient Program, Individual Therapy, Nutritional Counseling, Group Therapy, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy, Psychopharmacology, Support Groups, Family/Friends Support Group

3 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA 

Additional communities served: New England, North East United States, National

Office: 617-547-2255 or 888-900-CEDC 

Website: www.eatingdisordercenter.org

Email: Info@cedcmail.com

Treatment Model: Cognitive Behavioral, Interpersonal Therapy, Psychodynamic, Psychopharmacology, Eclectic, Nutritional Counseling

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 2000

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Credit Cards, Insurance

The CEDC is a specialty center that provides a comprehensive continuum of care to individuals suffering from eating disorders.  Services include a 22 bed residential program for females 12 years and older, Partial Hospital Program (PHP) for females and males 12 years and older (2 separate tracks of adolescents and adults) and Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for females and males ages 12 and over, and a variety of outpatient services. The Center is staffed by a multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, counselors, psychologists, and nutritionists who work closely together to ensure the highest level of care. The mission of CEDC is to provide residential, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient treatment in a non-institutional setting with the aim of preventing hospitalization.

Monthly Drop-In-Group on the last Saturday of each month from 11:00am - 12:15pm, call 617-547-2255 for more information.

CEDC is also a training site for post doctorial psychology, as well as child and adolescent psychiatry fellowships.

Newton, Newton Centre and Newton Highlands, MA (scan down)

Merrill Mead-Fox, Ph.D.

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Outpatient, Hypnosis, Couples Therapy, Group Therapy

93 Union Street, Suite 303A, Newton Centre, MA

Additional Communities Served: Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Wellesley, Waltham

Office: 617-969-9608 

Email: mmeadfox@comcast.net

Treatment Model:  An integrative model including cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, self-psychology, hypnotherapy, and internal family systems approaches.

Dr. Mead-Fox treats Anorexia and Bulimia; males and females, adolescents, and adults. She also works with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Food Addiction, Night Eating Syndrome, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, Compulsive Overeating, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1984

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Insurance, Sliding Scale

Dr. Mead-Fox is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience in working with adolescents and adults with eating disorders. Her work with people with eating disorders has involved assessment and evaluation, direct clinical service, crisis intervention, multi-disciplinary team coordination and instruction, research, professional training and lecturing, professional supervision, and consultation with family members, secondary schools, and universities. She uses a multimodal and multidisciplinary approach, tailoring treatment to the individual and working closely with medical professionals, nutritionists, psychopharmacologists, and others to coordinate care.  

MEDA (Multi-Service Eating Disorders Association)

Group Therapy, Support Groups, Community Outreach, Education and Prevention, Outpatient, Assessments, Consultations, Trainings for Professionals, Coaching

Executive Director: Beth Mayer, LICSW 

Outreach Coordinator: Jessica Cunningham

Office Coordinator: Kristin Tyman

92 Pearl Street, Newton, MA

Additional communities served: A National Program

Office: 617-558-1881

Outreach Coordinator: 617-558-1881 ext. 15 (for education and volunteer information)

Office Coordinator: 617-558-1881 ext. 12 (for general information)

Connect Line: 617-558-1881 ext. 12. Available during office hours to assist clients with their concerns and connect them to resources. Connect to Recovery: MEDA's clinical branch offering support groups, assessments, consultations, coaching services.

Website: www.medainc.org

Email: kristin.tyman@medainc.org

MEDA treats Anorexia and Bulimia; males and females, children, adolescents and adults.

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Credit Cards

MEDA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention and treatment of eating disorders and disordered eating. MEDA’s mission is to prevent the continuing spread of eating disorders through educational awareness and early detection. MEDA serves as a support network and resource for clients, loved ones, clinicians, educators and the general public. MEDA was founded in 1994 by Rebecca Manley who had the vision to provide services to the underserved individual, family and friends to prevent and treat eating disorders. MEDA is a group of mental health professionals and recovered individuals, on staff and as members of our referral network, working to achieve that goal. MEDA is not funded by the state of Massachusetts and relies solely on contributions and income from services to operate.

Newton-Wellesley Eating Disorders and Behavioral Medicine

Director: Perry L. Belfer

Outpatient services include: Individual confidential patient consultation; Consultation to families and health care professionals; Individual, family treatment; Psychiatric evaluation and psychopharmacologic treatment (to individuals in psychotherapy in our practice); Nutritional counseling; as well as case management and treatment coordination.

781 and 339 Area Codes

Michelle Spomer, Ph.D.

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Outpatient, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy, Group Therapy

Additional Communities Served: Boston, Belmont, Arlington, Cambridge, Newton

Treatment Model: An integrative approach combining Cognitive-behavioral and Psychodynamic therapy models, along with skills drawn from Dialectical Behavior Therapy.  The therapy work is considered to be a collaborative process that takes place in a supportive, yet appropriately challenging setting in which individuals are encouraged to learn about themselves, understand the meaning behind their symptoms, and take positive action toward recovery.

Dr. Spomer treats Anorexia and Bulimia in adolescent and adult women. She also works with Compulsive Exercisers, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 2000

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Insurance, Sliding Scale

Dr. Spomer is a licensed Clinical Psychologist who specializes in the treatment of eating disorders in older adolescents and adults.  She also works closely with parents and families of those suffering with eating disorders, providing psychoeducation and therapy.  Dr. Spomer's treatment approach is integrative with a strong focus on cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic therapy; through this approach, both the symptoms of disordered eating and the factors that maintain them can be adequately addressed.  She also has skills in Dialectical Behavior Therapy which she has found quite useful in helping those she works with to manage the variety of feelings that are often revealed along the road to recovery.   Dr. Spomer was previously a psychologist at the Klarman Eating Disorders Center at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School where she provided a variety of services to girls/young women in a residential and partial hospital setting.  She also provides therapy as part of the staff at Newton-Wellesley Eating Disorders and currently directs the Intensive Outpatient Evening Program for Eating Disorders at Laurel Hill Inn. 

Medford, MA (scan down) 

Laurel Hill Inn

Residential, Day and Evening Programs for the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Linda McDonald, Director of Admissions

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 368 Medford, MA 02155-0004

Additional communities served: Serving adults throughout New England and nationwide.

Office: 781-396-1116

Website: www.laurelhillinn.com

Email: lhi@laurelhillinn.com

Payment Options: cash/check, insurance (they work with most insurance providers)

The residential treatment program at Laurel Hill Inn focuses exclusively on adults, age 18 years and older suffering from anorexia or bulimia nervosa. The treatment model is focused on cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavioral skills training. Education and practice are key elements of our treatment program. Daily, there are skill-teaching groups that help the clients modify their eating disordered behaviors so that they may lead more productive & fulfilling lives. Clients receive individual, group, family therapy, and nutritional counseling. Experiential outings are incorporated into the treatment program in order for clients to practice the skills they are learning through real-life situations while on pass with family and supports.

The Day Treatment Program allows for intensive eating disorder treatment while an individual continues to live at home. In some cases, day treatment is often the appropriate next step following inpatient or residential treatment. This level of care provides structure, support and supervision for two meals and one snack a day. Additionally, a broad range of groups addressing psycho-education, DBT skills building, cognitive behavioral, body image, and healthy nutritional goals will be offered each day. Treatment is provided from 8:00 AM to 2:30 PM, Monday through Friday. In order for clients to participate in this level of care, they need to be medically and psychiatrically stable and have an outpatient treatment team.

Evening treatment programming is ideal for clients who have commitments during the day but need more support than their outpatient treatment team can provide. This level of care provides structure for three evenings per week (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday). Treatment is provided from 5:30pm to 8:30pm and includes a community dinner, three groups each evening and nutritional counseling. Clients participating in the evening program must be medically and psychiatrically stable, have an outpatient treatment team and have daytime structure such as employment, school, or volunteer work for at least three hours daily.

Laurel Hill Inn is accredited by JCAHO and is licensed by the Department of Mental Health in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Pembroke, MA (scan down)

Diana D. Mansfield, LMHC

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Coaching, Holistic Healing, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy, Group Therapy, Support Groups, Phone Counseling

2 Columbia Road, Suite 11, Pembroke, MA

Additional Communities Served: Hanover, Marshfield, Duxbury, Scituate, Plymouth

Office: 781-826-2270

Email: diadima@verizon.net

Treatment Model: My treatment approach is relational and integrative with a strong focus on cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic therapy. Also available is an expressive therapy approach in a private art studio setting. I works closely with families and clients with eating disorders offering psychoeducation, therapy and counseling. 

Ms. Mansfield treats Anorexia and Bulimia; males and females, adolescents, and adults. She also works with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 2003

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Credit Cards, Sliding Scale

Ms. Mansfield is a licensed mental health counselor working with eating disorders in older adolescents and adults. Her treatment approach is relational and integrative with a strong focus on cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic therapy. Also available is an alternative treatment of expressive therapy in a private art studio. She works closely with families and clients with eating disorders offering psychoeducation, therapy and counseling. Her compassionate approach supports the complex journey toward recovery. 

Waltham, MA (scan down)

Ellen R. Glovsky, Ph.D., RD, LDN

Coaching for Nutrition and Weight Management

Nutritional Counseling, Group Therapy, Support Groups, Outpatient, Workshops

85 Lincoln Woods Road, Waltham, MA

Additional Communities Served: Newton, Brookline, Lexington and Lincoln

Office: 781-890-1618

Website: www.nutrition-coach.com

Email: elglov@aol.com

Treatment Model: Cognitive-Behavioral, nutrition therapy and coaching that is focused on eating behavior and shifting to "normal" eating and a "normal" relationship with food. Dr. Glovsky works solely as a nutritionist and not as a psychotherapist. Dr. Glovsky also facilitates workshops through Feeding Ourselves.

Dr. Glovsky treats Anorexia and Bulimia; males and females, adolescents and adults.

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1992

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Sliding Scale

Walden Behavioral Care

Director of Admissions: Paula Vass, LICSW

9 Hope Avenue, Suite 500, Waltham, MA

Additional Communities Served: Walden accepts patients from New England and nationally.

Admissions phone: 781-647-6727 

Website: www.waldenbehavioralcare.com

Email: info@waldenbehavioralcare.com

Walden Behavioral Care treats anorexia, bulimia, food addiction, binge eating disorder, compulsive overeating, and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). Walden treats athletes and compulsive exercisers; males and females; adolescents and adults.

Walden Behavioral Care has responded to the evolving knowledge of eating disorders by becoming one of the first hospitals in the country to offer the full “continuum of care” for treating eating disorders. Walden offers acute inpatient, residential, adult partial hospitalization, adult evening intensive outpatient, adolescent after school intensive outpatient treatment and programming specifically designed to treat binge and night eating.

For those with advanced eating disorders, 24-hour monitoring and nursing care are essential. Treatment at this level stabilizes the patient in preparation for intensive behavioral, medical, nutritional and psychological therapy. Walden is one of only a few hospitals in the country to offer acute inpatient care in a specialized, dedicated program. Inpatient care typically lasts for 2 weeks. As patients progress, they can continue their treatment in Walden’s residential, partial hospitalization or intensive outpatient programs. For those who still need a structured, full-time program, Walden Place provides treatment in a comfortable, home-like setting. Partial hospitalization is offered 6 hours per day, 5 days per week and is the recommended treatment for those who are not quite ready to make the transition from fulltime hospital care to independent living. It includes a daily, structured program, but patients return home each evening. Finally, intensive outpatient care is offered 3 hours per evening and 3 evenings per week and is designed to help patients complete their readjustment and maintain healthy eating patterns. Patients move in both directions within Walden’s continuum of care. When more intensive care is need, it is available for them. As they gain control over their disorder, they move toward independent living. Because Walden provides a full range of treatment options, it can treat patients who are at any stage in their eating disorder. As a result, patients receive uninterrupted medical care as they advance toward lasting recovery. Walden’s eating disorders programs provide discrete, highly specialized treatment for patients 12 and older. For more information, please call the Admissions Department at 781-647-6727 or send an email to info@waldenbehavioralcare.com. You may also visit Walden on the web at www.waldenbehavioralcare.com. Walden treats patients from New England and nationally.

Wellesley, MA (scan down)

Roberta Pearle Lamb, MPH, RD, LDN,  License #LDN1027

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Nutritional Counseling, Outpatient, Coaching, Support Groups, Phone Counseling

11 River Street, Suite 2, Wellesley, MA

Additional Communities Served: Newton, Cambridge, Boston, Weston, Lexington, Waltham, Watertown, Belmont, Wayland, Natick, the MetroWest, and surrounding suburbs as well as area college and university communities. The office is located just off 128 and the Massachusetts Turnpike.

Office: 781-330-2540 

Website: www.nwnutritioncoach.com

Email: rpl@nwnutritioncoach..com 

Eating disorder treatment for adults and adolescents struggling with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or non-specified eating disorders such as binge eating disorder, night eating syndrome, emotional eating or orthorexia. I also offer nutrition coaching for weight management, obesity, pre- and post bariatric surgery, as well as coaching for individuals with complicated medical or psychiatric histories. Related approaches are used for treating type 2 diabetes, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), and metabolic syndrome.

Treatment Model: Nutrition coaching incorporates a thorough nutrition assessment which encompasses the client's personal goals, motivations and strengths, as well as their medical and psychosocial histories. The assessment is critical to the development of an individualized training program aimed at effecting lasting behavioral change. Improving nutrition is more than understanding food sources of critical nutrients. Developing a nutrition blueprint that reflects personal biochemical and physical characteristics gets at the essence of nutrigenomics, the study of how food and diet interact with specific genes to increase or decrease the risk of certain diseases. Nutrition therapy and coaching combines cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approaches applied to nutrition behavior as well as mindfulness practices which increase awareness and facilitate behavior change over time.

In treating individuals with eating disorders and eating addictions, I have witnessed the vicious cycle of out-of-control eating followed by shame and self-criticism. Of course the destructive eating patterns have little to do with food itself; the diet-based treatments that largely prevail in conventional wisdom often create or exacerbate disordered eating. Rather, gradual introduction to personal acceptance and permission to savor "forbidden" foods in a controlled environment lays the foundation for the change necessary to achieve lasting health and wellness.

I serve as the eating disorders resource professional for the Behavioral Health Nutrition (BHN) practice group of the American Dietetic Association.

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 2001

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Insurance

978 and 351 Area Codes

Andover, MA (scan down)

Karin Lewis, LMFT

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy, Group Therapy

63 Park Street, Andover, MA

Office: 978-475-1617 

Email: karinslewis@gmail.com

Treatment Model: As an experienced, specially trained eating disorder therapist and as someone who has been recovered herself from anorexia for over 15 years Karin is committed to helping individuals with food, exercise, depression, anxiety and relationship issues. Through a combination of cognitive-behavioral, dialectical behavioral, psychodynamic, family system and the knowledge that an eating disorder is about much more than just food, Karin is able to help clients navigate through the personal exploration of the more complex issues that are being covered up by the adaptive functioning of the eating disorder behaviors. Karin believes that through insight, awareness, strength, support, and courage that full recovery is definitely attainable.

Ms. Lewis treats Anorexia and Bulimia; males and females, children, adolescents, and adults. She also works with Athletes, Binge Eating Disorder and Compulsive Overeating.

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 2005

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Sliding Scale

Karin was the assistant clinical director of both the Eating Disorder Center of California and Monte Nido Treatment Center of Los Angeles, CA before returning to Boston. She has been a member of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals since 2000 and was a past board member of the Association of Professional Treating Eating disorders in San Francisco, CA. She has presented a number of talks to high school and college students about eating disorders and is committed to supporting clients and their families through their battle.

Harvard, MA (scan down)

Lisa Claudia Briggs, MSW, LICSW

Intuitive Body

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Outpatient, Coaching, EMDR, Holistic Healing, Hypnosis, Family Therapy, Support Groups, Phone Counseling -- Phone coaching and internet support or in person sessions.

Blue Willow Farm, 307 Ayer Road, Harvard, MA

Additional Communities Served: Now In Newton and Wellesley too!  Brookline, Chestnut Hill, Weston, Wayland, Boston

Office: 978-772-0009 

Website: www.IntuitiveBody.com

Email: Lisa@Intuitivebody.com

Treatment Model: Ms. Briggs uses an Integrative Holistic based treatment model. This includes psychodynamic techniques, EMDR, guided-imagery, therapeutic writing, and Energy-related techniques . 

Ms. Briggs treats bulimia in adolescent and adult women. She also works with Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder and Compulsive Overeating. 

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1986

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Credit Cards, Sliding Scale 

The Intuitive Body approach shows women and teens how to "Break the Spell of Overeating" by teaching the principles that create the "Energy of Weight Loss". I've created a new 16 page, content-rich Ebook (my gift to you, of course!) called "The Energy of Weight Loss: 7 Essential Secrets" which includes an opportunity to have a complimentary phone session with me if you choose. The Energy of Weight Loss includes foundational information that I want to share with anyone struggling with overeating. Download your copy here (and sign up for a complimentary phone consultation with me!) - http://www.IntuitiveBody.com

Lowell, MA (scan down)

Denise Giroux Peaslee, MS, MEd, LMHC,  License MA#6618

Greater Lowell Personal Development Center

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Outpatient, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy, Group Therapy, Support Groups

Additional Communities Served: Chelmsford, Westford, Billrica, Woburn, University of Lowell

Office: 978-319-5384 

Email: dgpeas@comcast.net

Treatment Model: I work cooperatively with clients to assist them in reducing symptoms and meeting their personal challenges by helping the client understand their relationship with food and how it relates to thoughts, feelings, relationships, and behaviors. Through increased self-awareness the client is able to focus on problem solving, goal setting, and developing realistic solutions to their personal challenges.

Ms. Peaslee treats Anorexia and Bulimia; males and females, adolescents, and adults. She also works with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, Compulsive Overeating, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Insurance (Blue Cross /Blue Shield, Network Health, Neighborhood Health, Tricare), Sliding Scale

Eating Disorders are often time consuming and isolating. Let's work together to reclaim your health.

Newburyport, MA (scan down)

Susan E. Allen, Ed.D.

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Coaching, Couples Therapy

1 Merrimac Street, Suite 16, Newburyport, MA

Additional Office Location: 42 Mallet Drive, Freeport, ME

Additional Communities Served: Haverhill, MA, Portsmouth, NH, Salem NH, Andover MA

Office: 978-462-7107 

Office: 207-846-7999 (Maine)

Website: http://web.me.com/susaneallen/drsusaneallen.com/Welcome.html

Email: susan.e.allen@verizon.net

Treatment Model: For most people, a holistic and integrated approach is necessary to support the very hard work of healing from an eating disorder. I use a combination of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (usually including homework or areas to think about in between our meetings), and Relational, Interpersonal Therapy. In many situations I prefer to include a nutritionist and a physician on the team. Having worked with many wonderful people over many years, I am very conscious of the fact that each person brings a different need, and each benefits from a little different style. I will always collaborate with you to determine the best way for us to work together.

Dr. Allen treats Anorexia and Bulimia; males and females, adolescents, and adults. She also works with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, Compulsive Overeating and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1985

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Credit Cards, Insurance, Medicare

I have recently published an ebook called Leaving the Labyrinth: 25 Activities for Living Well After an Eating Disorder. This is a self-help book filled with ideas which have been favorites for my clients over the past 15-20 years. For more information, please go to http://web.me.com/susaneallen/Leaving_the_Labyrinth/Home.html 

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