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


This 3-week course is designed to help mental health professionals gain specialized 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
- 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


This course is modules 8-10 from A Neurodiversity Affirming Approach to Working With Eating Disorders in Adolescents and Adults. Modules 8-10 specifically focus on working with highly complex, high risk, and avoidant presentations.

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
  • Have strategies to skilfully navigate non-affirming health practitioners and stakeholders




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