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At Victus our specialized Counselors are dedicated to providing the tools and supports needed to overcome an eating disorder. Specialized registered dietitians are available through a network of providers we have cultivated collaboration with. Including IAEDP trained and certified dietitians licensed in multiple states.
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Victus Counseling is dedicated to guiding individuals on a transformative journey toward recovery from eating disorders. We understand the complexities of these conditions and offer a supportive environment where you can find the most effective treatment tailored to your needs. Our experienced team uses a range of evidence-based therapies, like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which helps in altering negative thought patterns; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), encouraging a life aligned with personal values even in the face of distress; and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), which equips you with coping skills for emotional stability.
We also incorporate Motivational Interviewing to empower your willingness to change, Person-Centered Therapy to provide a non-judgmental space for growth, and Family Behavior Therapy (FBT) to engage the support of loved ones in your recovery process. Every step you take with us is a stride toward reclaiming control and creating a balanced, fulfilling life.
🌍 Today is World Eating Disorders Action Day! 💜
Now is the time to advocate for change, to make the changes we all know that are needed to prevent more losses, increase access to care, and provide compassionate, informed, supportive care for those diagnosed with eating disorders. We can make a difference when we start saying this is not ok - that eating disorders are the second leading cause of death of all mental health disorders. Change is possible and this is where it can start!
Email your Representative and Senators:
Ask your Representative to co-sponsor the Nutrition CARE Act (H.R. 2495) to expand access to medical nutrition therapy for eating disorder recovery.
Urge your Senators to co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act (S.1748) to protect children and teens from harmful online content.
This will only take seconds - I promise they do listen they just don't know what they don't know.
Your voice makes a difference. Let’s keep showing up. 💙
#edawareness #NutritionCAREAct #RecoveryIsPossible #endthestigma
#kidsonlinesafetyact
Please share across your social networks and let's get this to trend in honor of all those who have fought this illness with courage and bravery & for those who have lost the battle and still showed up with courage and bravery every day of the fight.
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Carly-Ann Thompson passed away on 6/10/2022 from an eating disorder. Her obituary ends “Eating disorder recovery is hard, getting treatment should not be". We love and miss you Carly.
Her family writes “…She got great joy in playing sports with the kids, taking them out for ice cream, bike rides and most of all loved making them laugh. Carly was very passionate about all sports, especially basketball where she was a star player at Valley Regional and AAU. She was always determined to the best, so much so she would challenge her dad to play defense against her. Her mother and Grammy Terry could always be heard at every game as they were by far the loudest in the crowd. She also played lacrosse and was an avid runner. She loved watching the Celtics and UCONN woman's basketball with her brother, who is her best friend. Carly embraced a silliness and joy that was incredibly contagious, it was impossible to keep a straight face as she's sending you one of her funny TikToks, Snap Chat videos, or a hilarious filtered selfie. Carly was a selfless and giving soul giving her time to missionary trips, feeding the homeless and even giving them her last dollar. Despite all these amazing qualities Carly suffered greatly from an eating disorder, she was a warrior and never gave up. God had different plans and needed another angel”
Carly-Ann Thompson’s life and name matters. May is mental health month and we can do more for those fighting eating disorders in support.
Has a nation we have lost a life to this illness every 52 minutes. Let’s stop the clock and make the changes needed. Improve the access to eating disorder treatment - because it should not be hard.
#NEDA
#Parity
www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/hartfordcourant/name/carly-ann-thompson-obituary?id=35223205
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Thank you Pulitzer Center for spotlighting parity, eating disorder treatment barriers, and the reality of what those fighting eating disorders are navigating. Melanie Haiken did a very good job of what this reality looks like. You can read her four part 11 month investigative journalism at: pulitzercenter.org/stories/front-row-seat-desperation-meet-advocates-fighting-remove-barriers-eat...
mindsitenews.org/2025/05/15/no-rural-mental-health-for-eating-disorders/
'We're Not Serving Rural Communities': One Specialist for 250,000
mindsitenews.org
In rural America, finding eating disorder treatment is nearly impossible: 20% of patients can find no residential treatment in their state.0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Thank you The Kennedy Forum for spotlighting parity and the urgent need in our nation. The reality is hard to comprehend and hold, yet we never give up hope - we refuse to give up hope that things can't change for the better in mental health resources, parity enforcement and accountability, and reduced barriers in access to care.
Keeping our loved one's names and faces alive in hopes of preventing further loss and suffering through parity enforcement, advocacy, and hope is the catalyst for national change. The time really is now - we have lost so many already. Our nation can do better in parity enforcement for mental health and substance use disorders and I believe we will do better - humanity needs this.
Faith Carlson - Victus Counseling
www.thekennedyforum.org
Caption: Faith Carlson with her brother, Andrew Faith Carlson, a Clinical Therapist specializing in eating disorder treatment at Victus Counseling, was drawn to the field after learning that eating…1 CommentsComment on Facebook
This cherry tree caught my attention in DC. It was held up by these pillars and I went over to read this sign….
It has me think that even in the best intention, best care, best hope…support is needed. Support not just in one area to thrive, multiple areas. Not because this gift, this iconic cherry blossom tree was not the best, but because we ALL need support.
People are not ment to do life alone even with the best intentions. We know eating disorders thrive in isolation - where no support exists.
Perhaps we can see support comes in many “pillars” in life. That it does not mean weakness. That it does not mean you’re not trying your best.
Support means your going to have the best chances of growing, thriving, and blossoming in your own unique ways when you allow the support in your eating recovery process - to trust the process - those on a trained, qualified, educated treatment team want to be those supports alongside all the others you allow into your growth journey.
- Victus Counseling
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A few posts from Eating Disorder Coalition Day! You can reach out to your representatives on each government website and ask to endorse the request this year that we don’t lose funding on grants for early intervention of eating disorders and not to lose funding on training doctors about eating disorders. These funds were already approved, set aside, and we are asking they don it get cut and are renewed - these grants are smaller grants and not wasted funds.
I was apart of a team that did apply for the women’s health grant early intervention and while not awarded it did go to two colleges using last years funds for early interventions.
This is how you can have your voice heard - email your Senator and Representatives and request support on the blue info graph pictured!
- 2025 Eating Disorder Coalition Day
Washington DC
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My day heading to DC - and well everyone who has worked with me or knows me totally lol can agree this is so me 🤦♀️lol and I am sure the senate staffers and well every professional I cross today will get it ..maybe..
Sharing my message over to Equip haha this is going to be a day!
Dear Equip & Mackenzie …about those stickers mailed to Victus 😁 I totally placed this one on my water container for all those great clients to see during therapy (positive messaging) and it so is…
I’m loving explaining this sticker (what I do, where I got the sticker and all the wonderful advocacy education about eating recovery) at every water fountain in DC and my ‘pre-gaming’ advocacy day for a little Tricare conversations
Thanks for the sticker and let’s go team recovery!
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I am already missing my clients today! I am also so grateful that I can show up in DC to advocate for the betterment of those fighting in eating recovery work.
YOU all inspire me. YOU are fighters. YOU all are so important and valuable people - we can do better in the field and these trips help me say - no can’t be the answer in reducing help in research, training, early interventions in treating eating disorders.
We never lose hope! More updates - currently in Chicago and heading over to DC to join others activates in sharing what needs to change.
Keep up the hard work - you can do more than you think in recovery - I have hope.
More updates coming has I am out in DC this week.
- With humility, Faith Carlson
- Victus Counseling
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9 months ago Anna passed away from her eating disorder. Another name and face of the reality of mental health diagnosis of an eating disorder.
Sharing Anna’s story with great humility and responsibility has I prepare for my 4th trip up to DC for National Eating Disorder advocacy in Washington. Anna was not a client of mine but she was yet another courageous fighter in the community of people with eating disorders.
Her family shared this heartfelt message on her obituary “And she will be remembered, in part, as a girl who lived with and died from anorexia, a disease that remains poorly understood by the medical community and the public at large. Anna Mary Znachko, along with everyone who loved her, walked 18 years on a difficult journey of questions without answers and hope without promise. Her family hopes that no one else will ever experience the suffering that Anna did. To support funding, research, and education about this disease, Anna's family requests that those who celebrate and grieve her life and death consider making a donation to the Academy for Eating Disorders.”
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Academy for Eating Disorders website: lnkd.in/gbZCyv_N
May is mental health awareness month and eating disorders are a mental health illness. Let’s take the time to remember the names and families who have suffered life changing loss from mental health.
Holding Anna Znachko in that space of devastating loss from mental health and the hope for positive change in the field increasing support. It takes courage to hold space for both - and we can.
#MentalHealthAwareness
#eatingdisorderrecovery
#NEDA
#EDC
#VictusRecoverySD
#neverlosehope
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“Lives Are Impacted”: Therapist Battles Insurance Denials, Delays, and Hurdles That Affect Patient Care
/in In the NewsArticle taken from The Kennedy Forum Faith Carlson, a Clinical Therapist specializing in eating disorder treatment at Victus Counseling, was drawn to the field after learning that eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental health condition, second only to opioid use disorder. She wanted to make a difference in helping those […]