CEBT Founder and Practice Leader Lucene Wisniewski, Ph.D., FAED was featured in the July 17, 2025 edition of the podcast “Once Shattered: Picking up the Pieces.”
The podcast is hosted by Linda and John(Jack) Mazur, who in 2022 founded The Emilee Connection, a non-profit organization in 2022 in memory of their daughter Emilee to provide peer support, social connection, and education for adults with eating disorders and for their family members.
In the podcast, Wisniewski discusses her own journey to founding CEBT. Here’s an excerpt, about selecting a therapist – or rather, having one selected for you:
It never ceases to amaze me how people decide who someone should see, you know, basically at the front door. So the way that we do it is we do a pretty extensive assessment, where we’ll send you a battery of questionnaires, all kinds of problems that you might have.
And then we do an interview. And then based on that, we decide who’s the right therapist. Not just because somebody has an opening makes them the right therapist.
Or even just because what you told me on the phone you’re struggling with, that I match you with the right person. Because the thing that I would see happen over and over … is that when … people would call and they would say, I’m depressed, I’m anxious. And then because we do this assessment, we would find out, oh wait, and they have an eating disorder.
But had we just relied on what they told us at intake, we wouldn’t have known that. And so the Center for Evidence Based Treatment is committed to a pretty hefty evaluation where we try to figure out all the things that might be going on, and then we match you with the right intervention for the problem that you have. And I feel very passionate about this…. Yeah, eating disorders never stand alone.
The full episode is available below and on your favorite podcast streaming platform.
JUL
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