VFED September looked at the phenomenon of clients who lack connection to pleasure in their world. Those who feel they do not deserve it, those who are afraid of it, and those who simply can no longer recognize it. Nicole D’Aoust, LMFT- who is clinical director at Monte Nido Vista- wants us to ask the…
This is why we need dietitians. (JK there are endless reasons we need RD’s). 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’…
After a century of relative plateau, the prevalence of eating disorders surged in 2020 and remains at record highs. This increase is not happening in a vacuum; it is the result of a “perfect storm” of societal stressors—from geopolitical instability to the profound isolation of a remote-work and social-media-driven culture. This session explores how these…
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…
