Training

A popular speaker, educator, and event planner, Lyster-Mensh organizes trainings, expert speakers, and research-based training materials for your organization.

Analysis

Circum Mensam will analyze your treatment protocols, internal training, office procedures, intake and discharge, written materials, website, and marketing from the unique -- and essential -- parent perspective.
Lyster-Mensh's international familiarity with programs and family experiences for the past decade give your practice a view to how your services compare and contrast with services around the world.

Consultation

Treating eating disorders is a challenging field which draws some of the most passionate clinicians in the world. Lyster-Mensh takes an evidence-based, solutions-focused approach to troubleshooting issues around involving parents in treatment.

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A NEW IDEA: Starfish Care Packages

Do you know a family who has just learned a son or daughter has an eating disorder? Show your caring and support with a Starfish Care Package, newly available from Circum Mensam. This colorful, hope-filled package is delivered by Priority Mail and includes crucial information about eating disorders, choosing treatment, and tips for how to support the whole family. Includes notes of support, coping tips, recipes, and inspiration. Contents designed by the noted advocate and author, Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh. The price of each package includes shipping and a 10% donation to F.E.A.S.T., the international organization for parents of eating disorder patients.

Eating disorders are treatable! Parents and families are part of the solution!

Clinics and treatment providers: click HERE to arrange for discounts to order multiple packages.

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Including parents in treatment saves futures... and lives

In the past 15 years so much has been learned about the brain and how certain people's genetics can make them more vulnerable or more resilient. Many of the traits that seem to predispose individuals to mental illnesses like eating disorders can also be strengths when appropriately nurtured. Mobilizing and empowering families to face the crisis of an eating disorder diagnosis is an evidence-based approach that offers the best chance at recovery. Including parents also means patients are more likely to stay in treatment. Patients of all ages deserve a family environment with responsible adults who both understand the disorder and act on their loved one's behalf. Skilled well-trained clinical teams collaborate with families.

The research

Faster recovery and better engagement for your patients,
improved job satisfaction for your staff

Compliance with newer evidence-based treatment recommendations can be a challenge. Yet more
and more clinicians are finding that their job is easier and more satisfying as they successfully engage
parents and families into their practice. Combining experience with evidence allows treatment providers
to do what they do best: successfully treat patients who get to go on to their lives free of eating
disorder thinking, behavior, and medical consequences.

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