(JK—there are endless reasons we need RDs.) However, ADHD is a big one. And how lucky are we to have talent like Julia Cassidy, MS, RDN, CEDS-C in our neighborhood? At VFED this month, Julia demonstrated how registered dietitians can help reduce patients’ shame as well as clinicians’ frustration. Individuals with ADHD are four times…
Like so many things, understanding Psychosis leads to seeing it in more places. VFED’s March talk, “Understanding the Psychosis Continuum,” was eye-opening. Krystal Wright, LCSW gave a riveting talk that covered the differential and overlap of psychotic episodes with not only Eating Disorders, but also with ADD, Autism, and Bipolar Disorder. The term, “Psychotic Break”…
Things are not good in our communities these days- more people need more help and we are witnessing trauma in real time. However when we gather together, we help each other to know our pain and to tolerate it. We minimize the very trauma that we are helping our clients to process. Because trauma is stored…
Friday was a perfect gathering at VFED to conclude 2025, a year of unpredictably for us all. Emily Rotenberg, RDN, CEDS brought her team from California Virtual Eating Disorder Experts (CVED Experts) to help us answer a very big question- how does one teach nutrition to someone with an eating disordered brain? And the very…
THANK YOU to all who participated in VFED’s online talk today, “Teens, Families, and Eating Disorders.” Isabella Shirinyan’s enthusiasm was contagious. And because treating the family is part of our job so we learned skills to help parents (i.e., “critical allies”) as well as the teens. Young people have a window before an ED fuses…
“There is nothing we can do or say that has a bigger impact than the relationship” This, the wisdom from Natalie Katz,MPH,RD – our June speaker and owner of Feeding Your Soul Nutrition. Her talk, “The Ins and Outs of Managing a Group Practice…and Working in One” cleared up the misconceptions we had and inspired…
For EDAW 2025, Dr Moreen Rubin spoke about Autism and ED’s in Female Clients- the recognizing of it and the correcting of common myths. This super comprehensive presentation was made more special by Moreen’s own self disclosure and various case examples. ASD is prevalent in individuals with eating disorders- especially prominent in anorexia nervosa, where…
It’s a Starting Place At our final Table Talk of 2024, VFED had a beautiful visit with Jonathan Dang, LMFT, CEDS. Jonathan reviewed the common ED validated assessment tools (EDE-Q6, EAT-26, BAS, MOET, GAD7, PHQ9) and briefly guided us through them. One is helpful with ARFID subtypes, one especially relatable for male pts, one to identify…
We are all humans. This is Ashley Vicari, LPCC-S’S basic message in working with body image. Ashley, cohost of the “All Bodies. All Foods.” podcast also gives us, “Any body is a good body.”VFED’s Table Talk this month focused on social media, exposure to numbers, and our own countertransference as factors in body image work…
TT Robyn Caruso VFED welcomed Robyn Caruso, LMFT, CEDS-S this week- to teach us about sociometry. Sociometry works with relationships- quantifying who is connected to whom and the strength of those connections. It looks at unprocessed experiences at the sensory-motor level of functioning where the body’s automatic responses are targeted. Robyn shared her psychodrama training tools…
