Are you struggling to engage ambivalent, complex, and high-risk ED clients?


This short 4-week course is designed to help mental health professionals gain specialised skills to confidently and effectively work with clients who are:

  • Not a fit for traditional manualised approaches
  • Ambivalent or avoidant
  • High-risk to self
  • Have trauma or other complex co-occurring issues

You'll learn to: 

  • Build trust using a person-centered, individualised approach that fosters safety and connection
  • Implement a truly trauma-informed approach that recognises the interconnected nature of trauma and disordered eating
  • Navigate trauma and other complex presentations
  • Skilfully work with ambivalent clients utilising motivational interviewing techniques and harm reduction strategies to foster engagement and progress
  • Confidently assess and manage risk, prioritising client safety while respecting their autonomy
  • Adapt evidence-based therapies to meet the unique needs of complex clients
  • Develop a deeper understanding of the underlying factors contributing to eating disorders in complex cases
  • Create individualised treatment plans that address the whole person, not just the eating disorder symptoms








Course details
- All online and self-paced
- Just over 4 hours total (4 CPD points)
- Three-month access
- Filled with case examples and practical strategies

Who is it for?
Psychologists and other mental health professionals who desire to deliver high-quality eating disorder treatment for complex presentations within a framework that is:
- Weight neutral
- Non-weight focused
- Harm reduction focused
- Trauma informed
- Neurodiversity affirming
- Client led and collaborative
- Intersectional
- Anti-oppressive
- Informed by lived experience perspectives







Course Curriculum


  Working With Highly Complex Eating Disorder Presentations
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Important Information About This Course


The information in this course is also covered in the course 'A Neurodiversity Affirming Approach to Working With Eating Disorders in Adolescents and Adults'.

If after completing this course you would like to purchase the Neurodiversity Affirming course, please contact us for a discount code.





Learning Objectives


By the end of this course you will;

  • Feel confident navigating risk with high risk to self presentations in eating disorders
  • Feel confident navigating complex trauma and other complex co-occurring presentations when working with clients with eating disorders
  • Have the strategies needed to implement a harm reduction approach when working with eating disorders
  • Feel confident navigating client ambivalence and dishonesty using an affirming lens





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Thanks for adding some real world education which is largely lacking from the eating disorder PD arena. Evidence-based is all very good for basic foundations, but peer experience around these more nuanced presentations gives me more confidence to work in this area.

- Wendy Faulker -


Thank you so much for putting this training into the field. It will fundamentally inform my practice moving forward.


— Nicole Oleksak —