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Our Eating Disorder Track includes the following components:

Understanding how the framework of a bio-psycho-social model informs the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders.

Application of the assessment tools and pertinent treatment interventions in providers’ clinical settings.

Incorporate the constructs of the bio-psycho-social model in an experiential opportunity to assess a case in an interactive dialogue with facilitator.

At Safe Harbor we understand the sensitive nature of powerful patterns that control people’s lives. Our professionally trained staff offers a place to discuss the difficult matters of life in an encouraging, warm environment. We walk with others utilizing a variety of customized interventions aimed at helping clients to recover their lives.

Contact information: To make appointments - Call 1-800-305-2089.

For questions: Call Mary Pabst at 410-893-4600 ext 538 or mary_safeharbor1.com

Services

Counseling Services

Individual Counseling
Group Counseling
Couples Counseling
Seminars

Individual Counseling No Frame

Individual Counseling: aimed at understanding underlying issues and living life well in the present (description to follow)

Group Counseling No Frame

Group Counseling (check Tab to left for current groups) (description to follow)

Couples Counseling No Frame

Couples Counseling: helping couples to focus on how to heal (description to follow)

Seminars

Seminars: Speakers available to address groups in a seminar or workshop format (customized to meet the needs of your group) (links to past seminars - )

Staff

Mary Strouse Pabst, LCSW-C

Mary Pabst leads the Eating Disorder Track at Safe Harbor Christian Counseling and she brings 30 years of prior outpatient counseling experience to her clinical work here.. She completed her undergraduate work at Washington University in St. Louis with majors in classics and archaeology and received her MSW from the University of School Maryland of Social Work. In addition to her private practice, Mary has worked in the eating disorders and affective disorders programs at the Sheppard Pratt Health Systems, University of Maryland Department of Pediatrics Child Sexual Abuse Program and on a HUD funded grant in HIV/ AIDS in Baltimore City.

Mary’s professional work experience has a common thread - helping clients uncover and confront the self who remains hidden, feeling false, socially stigmatized and shame-filled. She believes that as a counselor she is privileged to play a small part in helping bind the broken-hearted and bring the light of God’s truth to the oppressed. This over-arching principle guides her work with the individuals, families and couples whom she counsels. Mary specializes in the assessment and treatment of eating disorders and the often co-occurring conditions of anxiety and depression. However, her clinical expertise runs the gamut from the treatment of childhood and adult ADHD, to helping individuals manage debilitating trauma and PTSD, to supporting couples who struggle to heal a fractured relationship. Mary’s treatment approach is founded on biblically-based principles of mind-body-spirit wellness integrated with evidenced-based clinical interventions. She states that “working toward emotional wholeness cannot be formulaic; healing and recovery are achieved when there is a strategic plan which is jointly mediated by the therapist and the client who both submit to God’s ultimate treatment plan.” In addition to counseling, Mary has spent the last 30 years working in the field of eating disorders awareness, prevention, and education. She has been a frequent lecturer and consultant to schools, universities and community organizations both regionally and nationally on issues related to eating disorders, body image and social gender bias. She has presented numerous times at The National Eating Disorders Association and The Renfrew Center Foundation conferences on issues related to the field of eating disorders and she has been a contributing writer to journals in the field. “Over the years, I have learned that eating disorders are deadly serious, co-morbidly complex and one of the most challenging of the mental illnesses to treat. It has been an extremely humbling journey.” Mary also has a passion for training and mentoring the next generation of counselors in understanding state-of-the-art treatment based on a bio-psycho-social-spiritual model.Mary has been married for 30 years and is the mother of three sons.”Parenting our three sons has been my first ministry. It has taught me to appreciate how God has designed each of us according to His Perfect Will and not mine.” Her extra-curricular interests include biking, sailing but especially SCUBA diving for which she has had a life-long passion. Professional AffiliationsThe National Eating Disorders Association (Founder and Past President; Founders Council, Chair)The Academy for Eating DisordersThe Washington Society for the Study of Eating Disorders and ObesityThe Maryland Society for Clinical Social WorkThe National Association of Social WorkersRelevant Published WorkSigall, B.A. & Pabst, M.S. (2005) Gender Literacy: Enhancing female self-concept and contributing to the prevention of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders. Social Science Information, 5,1, 85-111.HonorsThe Westin Family Award for Activism and Advocacy, presented by The National Eating Disorders Association, 2010.

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Resources

Resources

Suggested Reading for Family and Friends on Eating Disorders

Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery- Lindsey Hall & Leigh Cohn

Why She Feels Fat: Understanding Your Loved One’s Eating Disorder and How You Can Help- Johanna Marie McShane & Tony Paulson

When Your Child Has An Eating Disorder: A Step-by-Step Workbook- Abigail H. Natensohn

The Parent’s Guide to Eating Disorders: Supporting Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating, and Positive Body Image-Marcia Herrin & Nancy Matsumoto

Surviving an Eating Disorder: Perspectives and Strategies for Family and Friends- Michelle Siegel, Judith Brisman & Margot Weinshel

“I’m, Like, So Fat”: Helping Your Teen Make Healthy Choices about Eating and Exercise in a Weight-Obsessed World- Dianne Neumark-Sztainer

Your Child’s Weight, Helping Without Harming: Birth Through Adolescence- Ellyn Satter

Feeding Your Anorexic Adolescent - Claire P. Norton

The Beginner’s Guide to Eating Disorders Recovery - Nancy J. Kolodny

Crave: Why You Binge Eat and How to Stop- Cynthia M. Bulik

Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder- James Lock & Daniel Le Grange

Life Without Ed - How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder & How You Can Too- Jenni Schaefer with Thom Rutlege

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life- Jenni Schaefer

Presentation

Presentation Coming Soon!

But you can see it now on YouTube.....

Treatment Approach

Treatment Approach

Coming Soon.

Locations

Locations

Lutherville Counseling Location:

2122 W. Joppa Road

Lutherville, MD 21093

Phone: 410-821-1770

Our Lutherville, Maryland, counseling location is located at Trinity Assembly of God Church. Park in the spaces that pull right up to Joppa Road. Enter the building through the door that says "Main Office."

If coming after 5 p.m., enter the parking lot, and make an immediate LEFT. Go around the building, heading CLOCKWISE. As you're facing the freeway, you will see a basketball hoop and storage unit. Parking is on the RIGHT, facing the building. Go up a few steps toward the covered porch marked "Youth Center." Go into the double doors on the left. The waiting area and counseling office is to the right.

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