| Laura Hill, PhD., CEO/CCO | |
 Once upon a time there was a nightingale. When she sang, people came from far and wide to hear her beautiful song. We, at The Center for Balanced Living, help each person find her or his own song; and serve to make their voices strong through support and treatment. The clinicians and staff model a respect for individual voices through their own relation to one another as we support one another while we offer comprehensive care on multiple levels. We are a group of strong individual voices that have come together through a common vision and mission that has developed a harmony of service that I have found to be unique and powerful. As one voice at The Center, I have provided therapy for persons with eating disorders since 1979, and conducted research on eating disorders since 1984. I was the Director of the National Eating Disorders Organization from 1990 (formerly NAAS) to 1994, when it moved to Laureate and then evolved to become the National Eating Disorders Association in Seattle Washington (note our link to this national organization). I was a founding member of the Academy for Eating Disorders and a current fellow (FAED). In addition, I was the Clinical Director of The Center for the Treatment of Eating Disorders (CTED) from 1994 until 2000, when I then became a founder and the CEO of this freestanding nonprofit organization, The Center for Balanced Living (formerly The Center for Eating Disorders). |