LeLi – Love for Life

The LeLi day center is the first facility of its kind to close the gap between inpatient and outpatient treatment for people who suffer from eating disorders. It aims to reconcile therapy and everyday life. LeLi offers low-threshold, multimodal and individual therapy programs for their participants. There are also offers for affiliates and family members to receive support. Another goal is to remove the taboo surrounding eating disorders through public relations work and to carry out preventive work with workshops in various social institutions (e.g. schools, counseling centers).

Eating disorders are severe mental illnesses. The number of people who suffer from eating disorders is constantly growing. Eating disorders are not socially recognised, although they have the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses. There is a lack of low-threshold offers that are suitable for everyday life. 

LeLi’s therapeutical offer is based on the individual needs of the participants and is suitable for the social everyday life. Beside therapy on the behavioural level, the project concentrates on the person behind the symptom. To support this aim, LeLi develops a trauma sensitive treatment for eating disorders.

LeLi has a interdisciplinary team. Because of their different expertise they are able to cover the topics of mental health, medical care, nutrition, everyday life and skills training, body awareness and movement, as well as networking, case management, and public relations. LeLi uses the highly innovative method of NeuroDeeskalation® in the treatment of their participants.

As a low-threshold, multi-professional, networking offer, LeLi creates a clear stance for the treatment of eating disorders and helps patients to step out of trauma dynamics. This also includes breaking down taboos surrounding eating disorders. Through its presence in the media, the topic is gaining increased attention and social awareness.

The day centre is the first facility of its kind to close the gap between inpatient and outpatient treatment for people who suffer from eating disorders. It aims to reconcile therapy and everyday life. This concept can be operated in every region. The setting will be enlarged in the form of eating disorders specific shared homes in the future.

Illustration © Elisabeth Krischner