By Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS You or a loved one is struggling with an eating disorder. You’re scared about how to get started and what you’ll have to do to get better. Perhaps you’ve even tried to get help, but things aren’t improving. This is how most clients come to us at The Body […]
Stop the Resolutions and Join the Revolution
By Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS I saw an old friend post on Instagram that he is working to lose a significant amount of weight despite being a healthy and typical-sized male in his 40s. A distant family member posted she is going on a New Year’s cleanse to rid herself of all the toxins […]
About Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP) for Eating Disorders
What is Day Treatment? Day Treatment is just what it sounds like! It’s a treatment program that occurs during the daytime, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Day Treatment is also commonly referred to as a “Partial Hospitalization Program.” It’s less intensive and less expensive than hospitalization, residential or inpatient treatment. Day […]
The Crucial Step of Recovery from an Eating Disorder – Relapse Prevention
By Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS When clients come in for treatment for their eating disorder, everyone involved – from the client and loved ones to their treatment team – are in crisis mode. We’re all busy figuring out what are the symptoms, what are the stressors, triggering events, underlying mental and physical health diagnoses, […]
A Parent’s Guide for Anxiety and Teens
By Erica Ardinger, MSW candidate (intern at Body Image Therapy Center) Being an adolescent is hard. Being an adolescent with anxiety is harder, especially as teens may not understand what is going on in their minds and their bodies It is up to the parent to recognize these signs in order to give teens the […]
Eating Disorders: Parents Can Learn From The Animal Kingdom
By Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS Being a parent to a child with an eating disorder is hard. Maybe that’s not strong enough a term. It’s exhausting emotionally, physically, and spiritually. But what the research clearly shows is parents are the key to a child’s recovery. The leading researchers in family-based treatment of eating disorders […]
Our Insta-famous desires
By Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS Since the rise to fame of the Kardashian family, and Kim Kardashian especially, we have been given a new term – Insta-famous. Using the social media app Instagram, individuals like the Kardashians no longer rely on Hollywood or the music industry to become famous. It’s all about how much […]
Top 5 Questions About Insurance For Eating Disorders
Navigating insurance issues in eating disorders treatment is a complicated topic. Every treatment program has different contracts with different stipulations about what is covered and what isn’t. Even within a program like The Body Image Therapy Center, those contracts vary by location. Here are some key questions and answers that come up from clients at […]
Binge Eating Help Is Not About Weight Loss
When I finally admitted to myself I had an eating disorder, the behavior I struggled with was binge eating. From my earliest memories, I used food to sooth my fears, loneliness, and depression. Throughout my adolescence and young adult years, I struggled with horrible self-loathing because of my size and blamed all my unhappiness on […]
Celebrating Eating Disorder Recovery
I had the pleasure of being a speaker at the 2018 Baltimore NEDA Walk this past weekend. For the few days prior I kept wondering what to say to the crowd. Typically, I speak about my own experience with an eating disorder and the plight of males who often forgo treatment due to stigma of […]
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