First and foremost, ALL BODIES ARE WELCOME
- LGBTQ+ affirming care
- Trauma-informed care
- Neurodiversity affirming care
- Health at Every Size®, fat-positive, and anti-diet care
- Safe space for BIPOC individuals
- Any religious affiliation (or no religious affiliation)
- Children, adolescents, and adults
What to Expect:
The first step is to reach out to us, to schedule a free consultation call. This is about 15 minutes where you and your potential therapist will get to know each other. This process helps you and your potential therapist preliminarily assess your needs and assess if it is a good therapeutic fit.
After the consultation call, you and your therapist will schedule an initial assessment, which takes anywhere between 75-90 minutes. The therapist will complete a biopsychosocial assessment with you. There will be questions about your identity, family, general mental health, eating disorder symptoms/behaviors (if applicable), and more. After gathering all of this information, the therapist will be able to come up with a preliminary treatment plan and provide recommendations for your care that the therapist deems ethically and clinically appropriate. If our client is a child or adolescent we typically do an initial assessment with the parent/caregiver as well.
Once these two steps are complete, therapy sessions begin! Therapy sessions are about 50 minutes. However, you and your therapist may decide to meet for a shorter or longer session time.
What We Offer:
Individual Therapy
Parent Support Sessions
Therapeutic Meal Support Sessions
Exposure and Response Prevention Sessions
Additional Services:
- Clinical licensure supervision for social workers (LCSW)
- Supervision for clinicians working towards their Certified Eating Disorders Specialist (CEDS) certification
- safeTALK training (3 1/2 hour suicide awareness and education training)
- Eating Disorder and general mental health trainings
“Gabby is an incredible supervisor – dedicated, thorough, and always there to provide support. She offers a powerful balance of comprehensively processing clinical matters matters, while encouraging you to take steps on your own to gain and strengthen your clinical skill set. I left my supervision period feeling confident, and with a greater capacity and knowledge base to problem solve and offer the best care possible to my clients.”
RACHAEL SCHOLL, LCSW, THERAPIST
Examples of Trainings
2023
- 10/05/2023: Gabby developed and led training for the Fairfax County Wellness Circle Crisis Stabilization Unit staff: “Eating Disorders 101”
- 9/26/2023: Kelsey developed and led training for an outpatient therapy practice: “Eating Disorder Basics/101”
- 7/12/2023 & 8/17/2023: Gabby developed and led training for two outpatient registered dietitian group practices: “Mandated Reporting“
- 5/19/2023: Marissa developed and led training to a high school in Prince William: “Eating Disorders 101: What They Are and How to Treatment Them”
- 2/28/2023: Gabby and Kelsey co-developed and led training for Cigna ED Awareness Series: “The Treatment and Conceptualization of Eating Disorders Through a Trauma Informed Lens”
2021-2022
- 11/18/2022: Gabby led a safeTALK training for local ED specialized registered dietitians
- 7/14/2022: Kelsey led a info session on “Eating Disorders and Domestic Violence”
- 4/19/22: Gabby developed and led training for Hexagon US Federal: “Stress Management”
- 3/22/22: Gabby and Kelsey co-developed and led training for Cigna ED Awareness Series: “Understanding Eating Disorders: Moving from Maladaptive to Adaptive Coping Skills”
- 7/27/21: Gabby co-developed and led training for Cigna ED Awareness Series: “Counter-Cultural Eating Disorder Recovery: Implementing Health at Every Size®”
- 2/5/21: Gabby and Kelsey co-developed and led 1.5 hour CEU training for clinicians: “Weight Inclusivity: Practical Implementations” co-hosted with Center for Discovery and Rock Recovery
2019-2020
- 10/2/2020: Gabby co-developed and led 1.5 hour CEU training for clinicians: “Weight Inclusivity: Our Paradigm Shift In Treating Eating Disorders” co-hosted with Center for Discovery and Rock Recovery
- 8/25/2020: Gabby co-developed and led training for Cigna ED Awareness Series: “Breaking Through the Confusion: Assessing Level of Care for Eating Disorder Treatment”
- 5/8/2020: Gabby co-developed and led training for an outpatient practice: “Eating Disorders: What to Look for, What Level of Care Does this Client Need, & How to Have the Higher Level of Care Conversation”
- 3/7/2020: Gabby co-developed and led 1 hour CEU training for the Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day in Northern Virginia: “Extreme Picky Eating Explained: Treating Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)”
- 3/2020: Gabby developed and led training for the Virginia locations of Discovery Mood and Anxiety Program of Discovery Behavioral Health: “Understanding the Basics of Eating Disorder Treatment”
- 4/23/2019: Gabby co-developed and led training for Cigna ED Awareness Series: “Mental Health & Emotional Treatment of Eating Disorders”
- 2/23/2019: Gabby co-developed and led 2 hour CEU training for the Northern Virginia Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: “Treating Eating Disorders”
- 2/21/2019: Gabby developed and led training for Center for Discovery Inspiration Call – nationwide therapist training call – on how to treat someone diagnosed with Avoidant Restricting Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
Good Faith Estimate
You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your health care will cost.
Under the law, health care providers need to give patients who don’t have certain types of health care coverage or who are not using certain types of health care coverage an estimate of their bill for health care items and services before those items or services are provided.
- You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any health care items or services upon request or when scheduling such items or services. This includes related costs like medical tests, prescription drugs, equipment, and hospital fees.
- If you schedule a health care item or service at least 3 business days in advance, make sure your health care provider or facility gives you a Good Faith Estimate in writing within 1 business day after scheduling. If you schedule a health care item or service at least 10 business days in advance, make sure your health care provider or facility gives you a Good Faith Estimate in writing within 3 business days after scheduling. You can also ask any health care provider or facility for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule an item or service. If you do, make sure the health care provider or facility gives you a Good Faith Estimate in writing within 3 business days after you ask.
- If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more for any provider or facility than your Good Faith Estimate from that provider or facility, you can dispute the bill.
- Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate and the bill.
For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit http://www.cms.gov/nosurprises/consumers, email FederalPPDRQuestions@cms.hhs.gov, or call 1-800-985-3059.
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