About Eating Disorder Recovery of Mid-Michigan
Problems with eating and body image are prevalent. In the United States, 20 million women and 10 million men suffer from a clinically significant eating disorder at some time in their life, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, or EDNOS (Wade, Keski-Rahkonen, & Hudson, 2011). (EDNOS is now recognized as OSFED, other specified feeding or eating disorder, per the DSM-5.) Underlying the behaviors of emotional, restrictive, or binge eating as well as excessive focus on how we look, lies core life problems that we avoid by engaging in problem eating/dieting behaviors. When we try to avoid pain in our lives, it doesn’t work – the pain does not go away and our attempts to avoid the pain, make us feel even worse. Our ability to engage fully in our lives in a way that creates happiness involves letting go of avoidant behaviors and addressing core issues in our lives.
Treatment at Partners in Change begins with helping individuals understand why and how problems with eating and body image developed. We explore the underlying needs that the eating disorder has attempted to fill and learn healthier skills to meet those needs. Treatment involves increased commitment to personal values, identification and approaching personal goals, setting healthy boundaries, engaging in skillful thinking and reducing harmful thinking, and increasing emotional management skills. We use a variety of treatment approaches for recovery including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Schema Focused Therapy, Mindfulness Based Treatment, and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. We offer individual, conjoint, family, and group therapy.
Groups are facilitated by Rebecca Brumm, M.A., LPC. Rebecca Brumm has a Masters in professional counseling and is licensed by the state of Michigan. Though she has helped clients through a variety of challenges in her practice as a therapist since 2005, she specializes in helping people work on improving their body image and treating eating disorders. Her expertise in this area comes from a variety of perspectives: she is a certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, a Health At Every Size (HAES) practitioner, a certified group fitness instructor and has worked as a health coach and a national health presenter for Cigna Health. For over a decade, she has experienced how an unhealthy relationship with one’s body can negatively affect the quality of life they live and how learning to nurture relationships with your body and with food can transform your entire life. She is passionate about helping people live happier lives by helping them to develop balance, compassion, connection, and acceptance.
Individual and group therapy takes place at Partners in Change: Psychological and Community Services, PLC in Midland, Michigan.
Treatment at Partners in Change begins with helping individuals understand why and how problems with eating and body image developed. We explore the underlying needs that the eating disorder has attempted to fill and learn healthier skills to meet those needs. Treatment involves increased commitment to personal values, identification and approaching personal goals, setting healthy boundaries, engaging in skillful thinking and reducing harmful thinking, and increasing emotional management skills. We use a variety of treatment approaches for recovery including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Schema Focused Therapy, Mindfulness Based Treatment, and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. We offer individual, conjoint, family, and group therapy.
Groups are facilitated by Rebecca Brumm, M.A., LPC. Rebecca Brumm has a Masters in professional counseling and is licensed by the state of Michigan. Though she has helped clients through a variety of challenges in her practice as a therapist since 2005, she specializes in helping people work on improving their body image and treating eating disorders. Her expertise in this area comes from a variety of perspectives: she is a certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, a Health At Every Size (HAES) practitioner, a certified group fitness instructor and has worked as a health coach and a national health presenter for Cigna Health. For over a decade, she has experienced how an unhealthy relationship with one’s body can negatively affect the quality of life they live and how learning to nurture relationships with your body and with food can transform your entire life. She is passionate about helping people live happier lives by helping them to develop balance, compassion, connection, and acceptance.
Individual and group therapy takes place at Partners in Change: Psychological and Community Services, PLC in Midland, Michigan.