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A personal path to recovery

NewCircle was built on the belief that people heal better when they feel like themselves in treatment. So we made room for that. You’ll see it in the way we practice, the programming we offer, and the community we’ve built around it. Clinical rigor and real human warmth aren’t tradeoffs here. They’re the whole point.

Meet the team

Healing happens in relationship, and the strength of our team reflects the strength of our mission.

Members of NewCircle bring clinical expertise, lived compassion, and a deep commitment to walking alongside you in recovery. We are not just providers—we’re listeners, advocates, and fellow humans who believe in your capacity to heal.

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Our treatment levels

Recovery looks different for everyone. That’s why we offer multiple levels of care, each designed to meet you exactly where you are.

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Residential
Treatment

For individuals who need a higher level of support, our Residential program offers 24/7 care in a warm, home-like setting designed for healing.

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Partial Hospitalization
Program (PHP)

A bridge between full-time care and daily life. PHP runs five to six days a week. Full days of therapy, meal support, and skill-building with evenings at home. Housing available where clinically appropriate.

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Intensive Outpatient
Program (IOP)

For those ready to integrate recovery into daily life, IOP offers structured, flexible support across four days a week, so you can maintain work, school, or family commitments while staying connected to care.

Reach out today

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NewCircle Reviews

“After my whole life of never being sure I could get help, this place blew me out of the water. I have fully graduated out of the program and my life is forever changed. All of the staff are amazing individuals who are there to really change lives. The facility is beautiful and has so many amazing qualities that it would take me pages to describe them. If you need help, I HIGHLY recommend here!”

– Residential Alumni, NewCircle
Date: 1/6/2026

“New Circle really did change my life for the better. I completed two months of Res and a month of PHP. The RC’s (especially Timmy) are fantastic and wonderful. Larry is the best intake coordinator in the WORLD (so kind and communicative!). The clinicians helped me work through so many struggles and to build a support system at home. This treatment program is SO individualized; it is able to meet the needs of so many individuals. There are so many things I could say, so I will leave it on this note…. If you are considering coming to New Circle, yes. Come, without a doubt. I am in a larger body, and that did not negatively impact my treatment whatsoever. I felt very accepted by staff. After struggling with my eating disorder from early childhood into adulthood, I’m finally able to see a life for myself without bulimia.”

– Residential & PHP Alumni, NewCircle
Date: 3/10/2026

“I would suggest this program to anybody struggling with an eating disorder. This program is so supportive and positive the people who work here really care about their jobs and the effect they have on others. From therapists all the way to nursing, everyone here is amazing!! If you’re struggling in any way, please call NewCircle.”

– Program Alumni, NewCircle
Date: 2/20/2026

Frequently asked questions

For families, clients, and referring providers who want to understand who we are before they reach out.

Yes — and we’re proud of it. NewCircle earned the Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval for Behavioral Health Care and Human Services in May 2026. The Joint Commission is the gold standard for healthcare accreditation in the United States, and earning this recognition means our programs, our team, our facility, and our care standards have been independently verified against some of the most rigorous benchmarks in behavioral health.

For families trying to make one of the hardest decisions of their lives, and for providers looking for a place they can trust to care for the people they refer, this accreditation matters. It means someone other than us has looked closely — and confirmed that what we say we do, we actually do.

We’re privately owned, which means every decision we make is a clinical one — not a corporate one. We’re not part of a large network optimizing for volume. We’re a team of people who chose this work, in a space that was built intentionally for healing, caring for a community of clients who deserve to feel like people first and diagnoses second. Our facility feels like a home because it’s supposed to. Our staff stay because they want to. And when you call us, you talk to a real person who genuinely wants to help you figure out the right next step — even if that step isn’t with us.

We also hold the Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval, offer dedicated programming for LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities, and provide age-separate care for adolescents and adults. But honestly, the thing that makes us different is harder to put in a list. You tend to feel it when you walk in.

Our team is one of the things we’re most proud of. Chris Willson, LPC leads as our Clinic Director, and Katie Reese, M.Ed., LPC directs our clinical mental health programming. Medical care is overseen by Tracey Jones, MD, our Medical Director, with additional support from nurse practitioners Kayla King, MSN-Ed, APRN, PMHNP-BC and Amy Henry, DNP, CRNP, AGPCNP-BC. Nutrition — which is central to eating disorder recovery — is led by Morgan Abercrombie, MS, RDN, LD, a registered and licensed dietitian who specializes in exactly this work. Beyond leadership, our day-to-day team includes licensed therapists, a board-certified music therapist, and nursing staff who are here because eating disorder care is what they do, not just what they happened into. Meet everyone →

We draw from a range of approaches that have strong clinical evidence behind them, including DBT, CBT, ACT, EMDR for trauma, and Motivational Interviewing to help clients connect with their own reasons for change. We layer in somatic work that helps clients reconnect with their bodies, not just their thoughts. We also believe deeply in the healing power of creative expression, so art, music, movement, and ceramics are woven into our programming alongside structured nutrition support and supported meals. None of it is off-the-shelf. Every treatment plan is built around the specific person in front of us — their history, their diagnosis, their life. The modalities are the tools. The relationship is the work.

Yes, and this is important to us. Eating disorders almost never show up alone. Anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, complex trauma — these are part of the picture for many of our clients, and we treat the whole picture. Our medical team, psychiatric nurse practitioners, therapists, and dietitians work together so that nothing falls through the cracks. We use EMDR for trauma, DBT for learning to regulate difficult emotions, and we stay in close communication with any outside providers a client is already working with. Recovery is complicated enough without your treatment team working in silos.

It is, and this isn’t something we say lightly. NewCircle is weight-inclusive, LGBTQ-affirming, and culturally competent — not as a policy position, but because the people on our team live these values and some of them belong to these communities themselves. We have dedicated programming for LGBTQ clients and BIPOC clients, and we work hard to make sure that every person who comes to us feels genuinely safe, not just tolerated. Everyone’s story is different. Everyone’s body is different. Everyone’s identity is their own. That’s not a complication for us. It’s the whole point.

We make it as easy as possible. Our National Outreach Director, Jennifer Luyster, works directly with referring providers and is a great first point of contact if you have questions before you’re ready to send a formal referral. You can also reach our admissions team directly at (205) 848-4514 or through our referrals page. Once a referral comes in, we keep you in the loop — during treatment and through aftercare planning. We believe the relationships between providers matter as much as the referral itself, and we treat those relationships accordingly. Submit a referral →

Yes. We work with many major insurance providers because we believe cost shouldn’t be the thing standing between someone and the care they need. Our admissions team will verify your benefits, walk you through what your coverage actually means in plain language, and handle the coordination on our end. It takes about two minutes to check. Verify your insurance → or call us at (205) 848-4514 and we’ll take it from there.

We do. Specialized eating disorder treatment at this level isn’t available everywhere, and we know that for some families and individuals, traveling for the right care is worth it. Our admissions team can help you think through the logistics: housing, what to bring, what arrival looks like, what communication with family looks like during treatment.

If you’re on the fence about whether making the trip makes sense, just call us. We’ll have an honest conversation about whether NewCircle is the right fit for where you are right now. That’s a conversation worth having either way. (205) 848-4514