Metro Behavioral Health Associates Eating Disorder Treatment Center, 14 Harwood Court, Suite 512, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Metro Behavioral Health Associates is an outpatient eating disorders treatment center for men, women, and boys and girls ages 12 and up, in Scarsdale, NY. Practitioners at Metro Behavioral Health Associates treat anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder, providing individual counseling, nutritional counseling, family-based treatment (FBT) which is the Maudsley approach, weekly group therapy, intensive outpatient programs, and art therapy. The approach to individual therapy is eclectic, depending on the needs of each patient, and can include cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic psychotherapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and hypnotherapy. Weekly treatment groups include those that offer support and coping skills for eating disorders, and one that offers support and strategies for binge eating/emotional overeating. There are two intensive outpatient programs (IOP). One intensive outpatient program is a mixed eating disorder program that meets three times per week, on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. The other intensive outpatient program is a binge eating/emotional overeating program that meets two times per week, on Tuesday and Saturday. Intensive outpatient program groups that meet during the week are in the evening, while the Saturday groups are morning through early afternoon. There is a dining area where each group has meals. The program for each intensive outpatient program session includes a community check-in group, a meal, meal support therapy following the meal, and an experiential group. The experiential group can include yoga, art therapy, music therapy, or hypnotherapy. The average length of treatment for the intensive outpatient program is 6-8 weeks. Metro Behavioral Health Associates offers gastric band hypnosis, for those who have considered bariatric surgery, or have at least 20 pounds to lose. Hypnotherapy is also offered for relaxation, smoking cessation, anxiety, depression, anger management, or trichotillomania. Metro Behavioral Health Associates providers include Jennie Kramer, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., the director and founder; Tara Brass, M.D., a psychiatrist; Leah Kaplan, L.C.S.W., Denise Limongello, L.C.S.W., Irene Miller, L.C.S.W., Jacob Pine, L.C.S.W., Karyn Schoor, L.C.S.W., and Morgan Somer, M.S.W., psychotherapists; Marjorie Nolan Cohn, M.S., R.D., nutrition manager, Tamra Rosenfeld, M.S., R.D., nutritionist, Sara Oppenheim-Somervile, certified hypnotherapist; and Caren Sacks, M.A., creative arts therapist. Metro Behavioral Health Associates collaborates with outside treatment providers as well. Metro Behavioral Health Associates is not on any insurance company panels. However, many people are able to be reimbursed from their insurance company using out-of-network benefits. Metro Behavioral Health Associates provides receipts that can be submitted to one’s insurance company. For people in the intensive outpatient programs, Metro Behavioral Health Associates works to try to negotiate a single-case agreement, or ad hoc agreement, with one’s insurance company. Metro Behavioral Health Associates is also a teaching facility, and has graduate student interns; a reduced fee is charged for treatment with graduate student interns, who are supervised by the center’s director. Metro Behavioral Health Associates offices are located in a building in the center of town, with metered street parking available. The center also has an office in Manhattan. Contact Metro Behavioral Health Associates Eating Disorders Treatment Center by phone at (914) 723-6242, or by email info@mbhany.com. Jennie Kramer, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., and Marjorie Nolan Cohan, M.S., R.D., are co-authors of the book “Overcoming Binge Eating For Dummies”, and Jennie Kramer has offered a free copy of the book to those who call the center, having learned about it from this website. For more information about Metro Behavioral Health Associates Eating Disorder Treatment Center, please see their website at www.mbhany.com.
