I am a Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach trained through the Carolyn Costin Institute (CCI).

CCI trains coaches how to best support a client and the client’s treatment team to assist clients in making the necessary day to day behavior changes necessary for recovery. 

For years in her private practice and her various treatment programs, Carolyn Costin trained both licensed and non-licensed individuals skills not taught in traditional counseling and therapy programs, such as how to eat with clients, take them grocery shopping or to buy new clothes. These are tasks are now performed by eating disorder coaches, as an adjunct to traditional treatment.

The field of eating disorder coaching is rapidly growing, yet, until now, no formal, rigorous training programs existed, thus she realized the need and CCI was born. CCI is the first to offer a sophisticated, thorough, rigorous certification program.

The coaching program has attracted students from all over the world, with incredibly diverse backgrounds and life experiences: From therapists who desire more eating disorder training, to chefs, housewives and recovered individuals who want the skills to help those with eating disorders recover. 

A CCI Eating Disorder Coach assists clients in reaching their treatment goals in real life situations, providing support, appropriate challenges, and serving as both role model and guide.

Coaching is an important aspect of an overall strategy for treating individuals with eating disorders. In essence, coaches provide a crucial aspect of treatment by accompanying clients in everyday situations and providing exposure and response prevention.

Through Intuitive Eating, I help guide clients to ditch diet culture once and for all and to make peace with food, their body and exercise. 

Elyse Resch defines Intuitive Eating as the dynamic interplay between instinct, emotion and thought (as it pertains to food, body and movement). The Intuitive Eating framework recognizes that you don’t need to have full-blown eating disorder to have been harmed by diet culture and to deserve a better relationship to food, body and exercise. 

Intuitive Eating (IE) is an evidenced-based model, pioneered by Registered Dietitian Nutritionists, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch in 1995. It has been continuously revised and updated through editions of the book since. Intuitive Eating helps people make peace with food and create a healthy relationship with eating, mind, and body.

In response to worldwide requests for personalized IE guidance, they created the Intuitive Eating Counselor Certification, a standardized training and certification process to help assure a consistent message that promotes the intention and the integrity of the Intuitive Eating process.

University of California, Berkeley

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Antioch University

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