Amy Yandel Grabowski, MA, LCPC, ATR, is the founder and director of The Awakening Center, one of the first outpatient eating disorder treatment programs in Chicago, Illinois. She has provided individual psychotherapy and group therapy to women and men with eating disorders for over 30 years and also has led eating disorder support groups for over 20 years. She was trained in the Internal Family Systems therapy model by founder Dr. Richard C. Schwartz and has been a visiting lecturer on eating disorders at Northwestern University, Illinois School of Professional Psychology, National Louis University, and DePaul University. Amy is also a professional member of the National Eating Disorders Association and the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals and a past member of the Academy of Eating Disorders.