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Mary Speight, MA, IMFT

Success Stories in Eating Disorders… I met Tasha when she was 14 years old.   At the time I was the Intake Manager for a non-profit mental health clinic.  Her older sisters brought her in due to statements she was making regarding wanting to kill herself.  She had made attempts in the past to slice her wrist.  When I spoke with her individually to determine the severity of her suicidal...
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Nancy Serling, LCSW

Hope is 16 years old and was hospitalized for consuming too much alcohol.  Hope’s mom sought help for her by contacting a therapist.  During my first meeting with Hope she stated that the real problem was her eating, not alcohol.  Hope is a teenage girl concerned about her weight and appearance as many teenage girls are. In our therapy sessions Hope spoke of having friends who forced...
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Dr. Hillary Goldsher, Psy. D, MBA

Success Stories in Eating Disorders… Emma was a 16 year old young woman when she came into my office with several active, life threatening eating behaviors. Emma was 5’5 and weighed under 90 lbs. She vacillated between anorexic type conduct (starving herself and/or severely restricting food intake) and bulimic type conduct (binging on large quantities of food and purging through vomiting...
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Olivia Patrick, Clinical Psychologist

Success Stories in Eating Disorders… Sophie’s* Story By the time Sophie was referred to me she had been “through the wringer.” At just age 14 she was 160cm (5’3”) and weighed 95kg (209lbs), with signs of insulin resistance (“pre-Diabetes”).  Despite being taken to Weight Watchers meetings, attending a children’s hospital weight loss program, being given a gym membership...
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Ashley Solomon, Psy.D

Success Stories in Eating Disorders… When seventeen-year-old Sasha arrived for her first appointment with me, an initial assessment, the desperation of her emaciated body was matched only by the vacancy in her eyes. Her body weight was at just over 80% of what would be recommended, though, miraculously, her labs and EKG indicated that the anorexia nervosa had not taken as violent a toll as...
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