About Us - Who We Are

CEDAR Formation + Mission

Richmond Center for Eating Disorders was created in 2021, based on the alarming rise of eating disorders in the community and the overwhelming requests for care following the pandemic. One of our early objectives was to make eating disorder recovery at home accessible and effective. We intended to grow our center to offer needed resources and yet stay small enough to provide excellent and compassionate care.

In 2023, it became abundantly clear that anxiety disorders were also on the rise and we reevaluated the ways in which our organization could help the community. We wrapped in more services to address anxiety and officially changed our name to CEDAR - Richmond Center for Eating and Anxiety Disorders. CEDAR comes from the anagram for Richmond Center for Eating and Anxiety Disorders.

Our Founder Story

Julie Guild and Julie Knopp served countless families and individuals suffering with eating disorders for years while in different organizations, in the same building! It made all the sense in the world to finally merge together based on their collective passion and mutual desire to offer higher levels of care for eating disorders. Together, they created an approachable, evidenced based outpatient treatment for families and individuals. They are excited to be expanding their highly specialized staff in an effort to offer their services to more of our community.

Julie Guild, MSW, LCSW Co-Founder + Director Certified Family Based Therapist

Julie works with teens and their families. She is Certified in Family Based Treatment (FBT) through the Institute for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders.
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Julie Knopp, RD, CEDS, CISSN, CPT Co-Founder, Dietitian

Julie works with teens and adults and specializes in Family Based Treatment and sports nutrition. She is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, Certified Sports Nutritionist, Certified Intuitive Eating Specialist and Certified Personal Trainer.

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Sara Hill, LCSW Therapist

Sara works with teens and adults. Sara has extensive training in CBT and CBT-E for eating disorders as well as Temperament Based Treatment for eating disorders.

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Sarah Cazares, LCSW Therapist

Sarah loves working with teens, adults and their families treating eating disorders and is trained in CBT-E, one of the leading outpatient treatments for eating disorders. She also specializes in treating anxiety and has a passion for outdoor therapy.
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Our Founder Story

Julie Guild, MSW, LCSW Founder + Director Certified Family Based Therapist

Julie works with teens and their families. She is Certified in Family Based Treatment (FBT) through the Institute for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders.
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Julie Knopp, RD, CEDS, CISSN, CPT Founder, Dietitian

Julie works with teens and adults and specializes in Family Based Treatment and sports nutrition. She is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, Certified Sports Nutritionist, Certified Intuitive Eating Specialist and Certified Personal Trainer.

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Sara Hill, MSW, LCSW Therapist

Sara works with teens and adults. Sara has extensive training in CBT and CBT-E for eating disorders as well as Temperament Based Treatment for eating disorders.

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Sarah Cazares, MSW LCSW Therapist

Sarah loves working with teens, adults and their families treating eating disorders and is trained in CBT-E, one of the leading outpatient treatments for eating disorders. She also specializes in treating anxiety and has a passion for outdoor therapy.
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