-Might you be wondering if certain eating habits and/or body image concerns could mark the onset of a clinical eating disorder in your child?

-Do you find yourself struggling to get your child to understand and admit that there is a problem, and/ or that he or she needs to consider changing destructive behaviors before they become entrenched and dangerous?

-Are these behaviors and the discussions around them negatively affecting your relationship with your child?

-Does it frighten you to think that an eating disorder might be fatal?

-Are you of the (erroneous) belief that an eating disorder is incurable?

-If your child is currently in treatment, do you feel discouraged that his or her progress is not what it should be? Do you wonder if this is the best you can do for him or her?

-Finally, as a parent, do you find yourself at a loss for where to turn to find the quality of expert help you and/or your child deserve? If so, you have come to the right place….

As a consultant for parents of children with eating disorders, Abigail educates and supports parents in their efforts to support their recovering child. She helps parents define their ever-changing role in their child's recovery, and to define and resolve problems that may occur throughout the child’s treatment process.  She functions as a representative for parents with the child's outpatient or inpatient treatment teams where needed, and intervenes with schools or hospitals to help parents manage and accommodate their child's complex and changing needs during recovery.

As a consultant for parents of picky eating children and for picky eating adults, Abbie helps to assess and diagnose the problem, offering counsel, making referrals, beginning the process of education and understanding in initiating the healing process, and inspiring action. 

Abigail provides:

• Consultation for parents and families seeking guidance about diagnosing an eating disorder, confronting resistance to healing, and bringing the patient to an acceptance of care.
• Consultation for parents and families seeking to intervene with the team to achieve more effective and timely outcomes.
• Education and advocacy for members of the patient’s eating disorder treatment teams. 
• Mentoring and coaching for parents and families who need validation, support and guidance in knowing what they are doing right, and in advocating for recovery in any of its various stages, whether their treatment is with me, or elsewhere
• Professional advocacy, representing patients and/or families with in-patient and out-patient treatment teams

Abigail also offers:

• Telephone and Skype consultation, coaching, and psychotherapy….
• Intensive treatment services to out-of-town patients and their families who choose to travel to Illinois for daily, week-end, week-long (or longer) consultation and/or psychotherapy treatment.

Accommodations for both long and short-term stays are readily available near-by on Chicago's north shore.

Abigail consults with eating disordered patients internationally.  She currently provides individual and family therapy with clients and parents in the Ukraine, the Philippines, in China and Taiwan.