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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.
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.
Laurel Watt-Aldredge, Psy.D., License #8784
Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy
12 West Central Street, Second Floor, Natick, MA
Additional Communities Served: Metrowest Boston (Framingham is convenient to area codes 508, 617, 774)
Office: 617-650-9807
Website: http://doctorlwa.com
Email: drwattaldredge@yahoo.com
Treatment Model: My approach typically combines interpersonal, relational, and cognitive-behavioral interventions. I frequently incorporate DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) and stress management training into treatment as well. My approach is informed by developmental factors and individualized treatment needs and goals.
Dr. Watt-Aldredge treats Anorexia and Bulimia; males and females, adolescents, and adults. She also works with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, Night Eating Syndrome, Compulsive Overeating, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).
Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 2001
Payment Options: Cash/Check
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.
McLean Hospital's Klarman Eating Disorder Center
Residential Care, Transitional Partial Hospitalization, Individual Therapy, Medical Evaluation, Nutritional Counseling, Group Therapy, Family Therapy are program elements of the residential service, Outpatient Treatment, Evaluation Services, Healthy Lifestyle Training
115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA
Additional Communities Served: Cambridge, Boston, Lexington, Waltham, National
Office: 617-855-3410
Website: http://www.mclean.harvard.edu/patient/child/edc.php
Email:
klarmancenter@mclean.orgMcLean Hospital's Klarman Eating Disorder Center treats anorexia and bulimia eating disorders, females, adolescents ages 13 to 23.
The Klarman Center is a comprehensive program in New England dedicated to treating the complex emotional, nutritional and educational needs of adolescent girls and young women with eating disorders (anorexia and bulimia), all in one clinical setting. The Center, which treats young women from ages 13 to 23, is housed in its own newly renovated building on the McLean grounds. The program offers a continuum of care - residential and partial hospitalization, with a referral network for outpatient care - enabling individuals to progress to less intensive levels of care as they become healthier. The same staff follows patients throughout the continuum. A program director and a medical director lead a highly trained, multidisciplinary treatment team including psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, a nutritionist, nurses and an expressive therapist. Tutoring and/or an academic classroom are available for patients up to grade 12. A key aspect of the Center is its behavioral approach and extensive resources to address psychiatric conditions, such as depression, anxiety, trauma and substance abuse, which generally underlie eating disorders. The goal is to not only stabilize the medical symptoms but also to address the root causes of the illness. The Klarman Eating Disorders Center was made possible with the generous donation of the Klarman Family Foundation, Chestnut Hill, MA. McLean Hospital is the largest psychiatric teaching facility of Harvard Medical School, an affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital and a member of Partners HealthCare.
Special features of the Klarman Eating Disorder Center at McLean Hospital include: a long and distinguished history in providing psychiatric care, including the treatment of eating disorders; major research advances in better understanding and treating eating disorders; extensive resources to address coexisting conditions, such as substance abuse, depression, trauma-related disorders and other comorbid conditions; internal medicine services available. For further information or a prompt referral, call 617-855-3410. McLean Hospital accepts Medicare, Blue Cross and many other private health insurance and managed care plans.
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) Eating Disorders Program
Director: Heather Thompson-Brenner, Ph.D.
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
The Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) Eating Disorders Program is a world-renowned center providing empirically-supported treatments for a range of mental health issues. CARD is a licensed clinic in the state of Massachusetts. The program directors at CARD have a long history of conducting funded research to establish efficacious treatments for mental health disorders, and training graduate students in psychology and medicine to provide empirically-supported treatments. CARD is easily accessible outside the Kenmore Square MBTA station in Kenmore Square.
Alexis M. Beck, MPH, RD, LDN
Nutrition Rx/
Nutrition and Diet Counseling AssociatesNutritional Counseling and Education, Individual Therapy, Support Groups, Outpatient
, Phone Counseling1051 Beacon St
reet, Suite 510, Brookline, MAAdditional Communities Served: Boston, Newton, Cambridge, Wellesley, Chestnut Hill,
Weston, Cambridge Boston University Boston College Babson College The Winsor School The Commonwealth SchoolOffice: 617-731-6786
Website:
www.nutritionrx.comEmail:
mynutritionist@nutritionrx.comTreatment Model: Cognitive-Behavioral, Nutrition Therapy, Psychodynamic, Insight Oriented Treatment. All techniques focused to create the possibility of establishing a tolerable relationship with food, eating and one's body. Direct consultations with MD available. Other areas of expertise: diet-related disease prevention and rehabilitation, pediatric nutrition, pre- and post-operative nutrition, and sports nutrition.
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: 198
5Payment Options: Cash/Check, Credit Cards (Visa or MasterCard)
, Sliding ScaleUsing 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
Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Nutritional Counseling, Outpatient, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy
1330 Beacon St., Suite 225, Brookline, MA
Additional Office: 10 Langley Road, Suite 200, Newton Centre, MA
Additional Communities Served: Boston, Brookline, Cambridge
Office: 617-332-2700
Website: www.nwedbmed.com
Email: nwbehavioralmedicine@rcn.com
Treatment Model: Integrative: we offer cognitive behavioral, nutritional, psychodynamic, self-in-relation, self psychology and psychopharmological treatment with providers who practice from a feminist prospective.
Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1979
Payment Options: Cash/Check, Insurance, Medicare
Newton-Wellesley Eating Disorders and Behavioral Medicine's expert, multidisciplinary clinical team, composed of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and registered dieticians provides outpatient consultation and treatment services to individuals 18 years of age and older suffering from Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder and Compulsive Eating.
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.
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.
Marci E. Anderson MS, RD, LDN
Nutritional Counseling
22 Hilliard Street, Cambridge, MA
Additional Communities Served: Boston, Brookline, Somerville, Newton, Harvard University, Lesley University
Office: 617-834-7336
Website:
www.marciRD.comEmail: 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
Cambridge Eating Disorder Center (CEDC)
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
Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Nutritional Counseling, Outpatient, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy
10 Langley Road, Suite 200, Newton Centre, MA
Additional Office: 1330 Beacon Street, Suite 225, Brookline, MA
Additional Communities Served: Boston, Brookline, Cambridge
Office: 617-332-2700
Website: www.nwedbmed.com
Email: nwbehavioralmedicine@rcn.com
Treatment Model: Integrative: we offer cognitive behavioral, nutritional, psychodynamic, self-in-relation, self psychology and psychopharmological treatment with providers who practice from a feminist prospective.
Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1979
Payment Options: Cash/Check, Insurance, Medicare
Newton-Wellesley Eating Disorders and Behavioral Medicine's expert, multidisciplinary clinical team, composed of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and registered dieticians provides outpatient consultation and treatment services to individuals 18 years of age and older suffering from Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder and Compulsive Eating.
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.
Michelle Spomer, Ph.D.
Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Outpatient, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy, Group Therapy
366 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 303, Arlington, MA
Additional Communities Served: Boston, Belmont, Arlington, Cambridge, Newton
Office: 781-648-3200
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
97 Central Street, Suite 205B, Lowell, MA
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.
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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