Support For
Dietitians/Nutritionists & other Professionals
How Can I Support You?
One of the most rewarding of my professional activities is providing individual and group supervision for dietitians/ nutritionists. Although the clinical supervision model is commonplace in the field of psychotherapy, nutrition therapists often do not have mentoring and counseling support. Yet, those of us working with clients and their food issues do healing work on so many levels. I have co-facilitated a group for dietitians and mental health professionals who work in the eating disorders field and are recovering or have recovery histories. This provides a safe, confidential place to talk about issues that come up when doing this challenging work. Currently, I am facilitating several groups of nutrition professionals, including one that I call the Embodied EDRDs Supervision Group because we are focusing on bringing the body into treatment in a trauma-informed way.
Although nutrition professionals may not work directly with the underlying psychological issues, discussing food brings up so many deeper concerns, both for the client and the clinician.
I would not be the healing provider that I am today without the mentoring and clinical supervision that I have received over the years. It is very satisfying to give and receive clinical supervision as I do this work.
Individual Supervision
It’s important for nutrition therapists to have a forum to work through challenges and get support when doing this kind of counseling.
Group work is satisfying and particularly helpful for professionals in private practice. I facilitate several groups, including one for recovering and recovered professionals and one for those interested in bringing more embodiment work to nutrition therapy.