Bridge the gap between conventional eating disorder treatment and neuroaffirming care, equipping you to work effectively with complex presentations

Transform your clinical practice with this 10-week course designed for mental health professionals seeking to provide neurodiversity-affirming care for clients with eating disorders. 

Drawing from both clinical expertise and lived experience, this program equips you with practical strategies to understand and support neurodivergent clients in their relationship with food and their body. 

You'll learn to: 

• Build trust using a person-centered, individualised approach
• Effectively distinguish neurotype from disordered eating
• Confidently work with eating disorders including ARFID
• Implement a truly trauma-informed approach
• Evaluate evidence-based treatments from a neuroaffirming lens
• Navigate trauma and other complex presentations
• Work skilfully with ambivalence and avoidance

Develop confidence in handling high-risk situations, managing complex trauma, and advocating for your clients within the healthcare system. 

Whether you're new to neurodiversity-affirming care or looking to deepen your expertise, this course provides the tools, knowledge, and framework to deliver more effective, personalised support for your clients with eating disorders.

I am absolutely loving the course. It contains so much valuable content and I am learning a lot! As a credentialed eating disorder dietitian who has been working for ~8 years, appropriate professional development can be hard to find. This course contains information that is great for a variety of professionals and builds on the general knowledge of neurodiverse care and what it means in practice

— Sammy Stanton —

I found this content incredibly relevant to my work. The neuroaffirming approach to eating disorders gave me practical tools I'm already using with clients. I've started applying these principles with several clients in my caseload who weren't responding to 'traditional' approaches.

I appreciate that this course ditches the cookie-cutter approach. Instead of handing out the same protocols to everyone, it leans into tailored intervention approaches that actually honour how different brains work. So much more respectful and effective than the one-size-fits-all methods that don't always provide longevity. 

This framework has informed how I approach 'resistance' in my practice. I'm now better equipped to recognise when behaviours previously labelled as "non-compliance" might actually be neurodivergent adaptations. My clients seem to feel more understood and less judged, which has strengthened our therapeutic relationships across the board.

— Taylah Foster —

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course you will;

• Understand eating disorders through a neurodiversity affirming lens
• Understand the difference between eating differences, eating difficulties, and eating disorders
• Feel confident implementing the SAFETY tool into clinical practice
• Feel confident in untangling ARFID from Anorexia Nervosa
• Feel confident in supporting your clients to untangle their neurotype based eating preferences from their disordered eating behaviours 
• Have a variety of neurodiversity affirming resources that you can use with clients in your clinical practice
• Have a basic understanding of all of the evidence-based treatments for eating disorders as approved by Australia’s Medicare Eating Disorder Plan
• Feel confident in critically evaluating these treatments based on evidence, lived experience perspectives, and neurodiversity affirming principles 
• Have a practice that is informed by lived experience 
• Feel more confident using neurodiversity affirming principles when working with clients with complex mental health difficulties
• Feel confident navigating complex trauma 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
• Have strategies to skilfully navigate non-affirming health practitioners and stakeholders

I found the training helpful for my approach in this space. The nuances of the formulation content is very helpful and I have integrated this into my style of formulating strategies with my clients. I am looking forward to applying the strategies working with dishonesty and non-affirming practitioners.

— Registered Psychologist —

Overall the course was wonderful and I got a lot out of it. I found the course extremely relevant to my work. I have been upskilling in neuroaffirming practice and loved that this was ED-focused while also working with multiple marginalised identities. Thank you for putting it together, it was super accessible and engaging.

— Clinical & Senior Psychologist —