Melissa Gerson, LCSW, the Founder and Clinical Director of Columbus Park Outpatient Center for Eating Disorders came to the mental health field after a having fulfilled a dramatically different career course as a professional ballet dancer. Melissa joined the Miami...
Research demonstrates that Family Based Treatment (FBT) – also called “Maudsley Treatment” – is more effective for treating Anorexia Nervosa (AN) than any other intervention for patients under 18 years old. FBT is an intensive outpatient treatment focused...
Eating disorder sufferers experience distress before mealtime, during mealtime, after mealtime… In other words, when in the throes of an ED there is little reprieve from food-related fear, anxiety, and preoccupation. With treatment there can be relief from these...
An interesting Op Ed was recently published to online publication Redbook Magazine discussing the fine line between body positivity and body obsession. Lisa Fogarty, an adult female who has been recovered from anorexia nervosa for many years, delved into her unique...
As we continue our blog series on DBT Skills for coping, we enter the DBT module or chapter called Emotion Regulation. Emotion Regulation skills have three primary goals: 1) to help us better attend to and understand our emotions, 2) to decrease our vulnerability to...