The Life Enrichment Center (LEC), LLC was founded in Lawrence, Kansas in December 2000. Formerly the Comprehensive Eating Disorder Treatment Center in Southern California, the goal of LEC is to provide high quality, accessible, and cost effective treatment and education. LEC founders believe strongly in the need for community-based alternative solutions for eating disorders (C-BASED Programs) and a variety of other mental health and life issues. It is the intent of C-BASED Programs to reduce the need for cost prohibitive inpatient and residential programs. C-BASED Programs will support a self-directed recovery process that empowers individuals and provides for ongoing support and a sustained recovery. C-BASED Programs will allow for earlier intervention with individuals struggling with unhealthy eating behaviors, often stopping the advance of problems into fully diagnosable disorders. C-BASED Programs will provide essential education and support to parents and agencies that will be instrumental in prevention of unhealthy behavior. C-BASED Programs will provide continuing education to healthcare providers to increase awareness and demystify difficult to treat disorders. C-BASED Programs will provide training and consultation to healthcare professionals (mental health providers, dieticians, etc) interested in treating eating disorders and other disorders in establishing community-based outpatient treatment teams. C-BASED Programs are community based with significant online programming to increase support and effectiveness.

As far back as 1997, LEC's co-founder Ed Bloch had dreamed of providing supportive programming on the web. Originally conceived around disordered eating the web-based concept has grown to include a variety of mental health and life issues. The need for support in making life changes is well documented. Advances in computer and internet technology make web-based support a true enhancement to an individual's recovery process and life changing efforts. LEC, together with California based website-builder and technology company Webolution, has developed an infrastructure that allows LEC and its partners to develop and continue to enhance programs.

LEC Founders

ED BLOCH, LSCSW has been treating eating disorders for 15 years. Ed and his wife Jena are Co-Owners of the Life Enrichment Center (LEC) in Lawrence, Kansas. Ed is a former Director for the Rader Institute, one of the first nationally recognized treatment programs to identify the need for specialized eating disorder treatment. He also directed an inpatient program for survivors of sexual abuse. Ed has served as a clinical consultant to inpatient and residential programs, and as an education consultant for school districts and professional organizations. For six years Ed was an instructor at Pepperdine University's Graduate School of Education and Psychology in California; facilitating courses in Eating Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theory, and Substance Abuse. Ed was Founder and Director of Comprehensive Eating Disorder Treatment Centers in Southern California where hundreds of individuals were treated successfully in an outpatient setting.

JENA LEUENBERGER, MA, LCMFT received her Master's Degree in Psychology from Antioch University in Southern California with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy. After attaining her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Kansas State University, Jena spent 8 years in Southern California honing her skills in working with eating disordered individuals. She worked with Monte Nido Treatment Facility, a residential eating disorder treatment program. Jena has served as a consultant to school districts, Beach Cities Health District, professional organizations, and has worked closely with dieticians and nutritionists in developing strategies and programs for overcoming compulsive eating, including a unique workshop on Eating From the Inside Out, a process that helps individuals escape the diet mentality and the diet merry-go-round. . Jena's personal experience has made her passionate about assisting others with their struggles and showing others the possibilities they have with recovery in their lives.

ZACHARY DAVID BLOCH, CHILD is featured on the cover of the Live Diet Free information page. Why? What you see is Zachary's reaction to the first time he saw the Pacific Ocean when we visited his family and friends back in our old home State of California. We thought that Zachary captured the innocence and wonder of the pre-conditioned human state so well that we felt it reflected what the Live Diet Free concept is all about. And, as all loving doting parents, we also thought he looked cute.

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