ACED treatment team consists of community professionals with more than 75 years combined experience treating eating disorders
Jan 6th, 2009 by admin
Immediate Release
A Center for Eating Disorders (ACED) names expert treatment team with more than 75 years combined experience treating eating disorders in many settings nationwide.
The core staff of therapists, psychologists, physicians, a dietitian and a yoga instructor collaborates with fellow professionals in the community to offer the state’s most comprehensive outpatient treatment center for eating disorders.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Recognizing that community fosters healing and recovery, A Center for Eating Disorders, formerly known as the Alabama Center for Eating Disorders, names a skilled team of staff members and community consultants.
With more than 75 years combined experience treating eating disorders, ACED core staff partners with fellow community therapists, consultants and physicians who offer specialized services. Empowered with experience and talent, the collaborative treatment team, as a whole, can anticipate and meet the individual needs of clients and their loved ones.
The ACED mission to connect with the community creates a solid resource, not only for clients and their families, but also for fellow professionals who encounter situations related to eating disorders.
The ultimate goal for the program is to complement therapeutic support clients have or will establish with a therapist and other outpatient service providers in the surrounding community. The ultimate goal for clients is complete recovery from an eating disorder.
Contact:
Leigh Bell, ACED Communications Director
Cell: (205) 304-4640
l.bell@acenterforeatingdisorders.com
www.acenterforeatingdisorders.com
Staff Members
●Renée Miller, MA, LPC
Founder and Executive Director
●Elizabeth McMurray, MA
Clinical Director
●Caroline West, MA, LPC, NBCC
Program Therapist
●Judith Harrington, PhD, LPC-S, LMFT
Program Therapist
●Christianne Strang, ATR-BC
Art Therapist
●Nancy Berland, PhD
Program Psychologist
●Sophia Lal, DO
Medical Director
●Sonya Grisham, MS, RD, LD, CDE
Primary Dietitian
●Leslie Hurley Black, RN
Program Nurse
●LeAnn Nequette, MA, ALC, CYT
Yoga Instructor and Associate Program Therapist*
*Supervisor: Judith Harrington, LPC-S
●Lillian Barnwell, MA, ALC
Associate Program Therapist*
*Supervisor Kim Brindley, M. Ed., LPC-S, RPT-S
●Jessica Leven, MA, ALC
Associate Program Therapist*
*Supervisor: Anita Neuer LPC-S
Community team
●Mary Boggiano, PhD
Research Consultant
●Anne-Laura Cook, MD
Community Physician
●Mary Ellen Capps, MA, LPC
Community Therapist
●Shirley Richards, LPC
Community Therapist
●Sandra Frazier, MD
Consulting Physician
●Gayle Janzen, PhD
Consulting Psychologist
●Lisa Altamirano PT, MS, CSCS
Consulting Physical Therapist
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About Founder and Executive Director Renée Miller
● Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and trained in art therapy.
● Adjunct professor in the Psychology Department of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
● Founder of first residential treatment center for eating disorders in Alabama.
● Has worked with eating disorders for 12 years in various settings.
About ACED
● Founded on the belief that full recovery from an eating disorder is possible.
● Most comprehensive outpatient program in Alabama.
● Staff has more than 75 years combined experience treating eating disorders and partners with community therapists, consultants and physicians who offer specialized services.
● Structured on the recognition that community fosters recovery.
● Operates six full days a week, with evening groups.
● Offers additional outpatient services, such as assessments, nutritional management, and individual, group and family therapy.
● Equally effective as residential treatment, but one-half to one-third the cost of that treatment option, which charges cost upwards of $2,000 per day.
Eating disorder statistics
● At least 10 million females and 1 million males have an eating disorder.
● Millions more have binge-eating disorders.
● More than 45,000 people die of eating disorders each year in America.
● Eating disorders are the most fatal psychiatric illness.
– National Eating Disorders Association
