NEDA’s Skill-Building Webinars
Watch a recording of a previous webinar or sign up for an upcoming webinar. Hosted by eating disorder experts, these presentations provide participants with practical skills to support recovery wherever you are on your healing journey.
Upcoming Webinars
In this session, hosted in collaboration with the Anxiety & Depression Association of America (ADAA), panelists Jenna DiLossi, PsyD, ABPP and Rachel Curran, MA, LPC, NCC examine eating disorders as serious mental and physical health conditions that often begin during adolescence and can affect students’ well-being, learning, and relationships. Presenters explore how to recognize warning signs and symptoms, have compassionate conversations, and support students and caregivers through treatment. This session aims to empower school staff with the knowledge and tools to identify, approach, and support students navigating eating disorders.
Previous Webinars
From Silence to Systems Change: The Power of Lived Experience in Patient Advocacy
In this session, hosted by Dr. Erin Knopf, CEDS, and Eric Pothen, we explore how lived experience with eating disorders can inform advocacy, early intervention, and inclusive care. Presenters examine how silence, stigma, and delayed recognition affect outcomes and demonstrate how integrating patient voices into screening, education, and treatment can improve access and support. By bridging lived experience with professional leadership, this session invites clinicians, organizational leaders, and community members to reconsider whose voices shape our healthcare systems and how listening sooner can transform eating disorder prevention, identification, and recovery.
Building a Positive Relationship with Your Body Through Gratitude: Skills for Reducing Body Criticism and Increasing Body Respect
This webinar introduces a compassionate, skills-based approach to improving one’s relationship with their body using gratitude practices grounded in body respect and function-focused awareness. Participants will learn how to shift from appearance-based evaluation to partnership with their body, how to practice neutral appreciation when positive feelings feel inaccessible, and how to use the “AND” skill to respond to difficult body days without shame or self-punishment. This presentation is inclusive of chronic illness, pain, and disability experiences and emphasizes behavioral body respect rather than forced positivity.
Beyond the Behavior: Trauma, Culture, and Emotional Avoidance in Eating Disorders and Mental Health
In this presentation, Paula Edwards-Gayfield, LCMHCS, LPC, CEDS-C, BC-TMH, NEDA Clinical Advisor, explores how trauma, anxiety, and depression intersect with disordered eating, often shaping emotional avoidance in ways that vary across cultural and intergenerational contexts. Participants will learn to apply culturally and trauma-informed assessment strategies that distinguish disordered behaviors from culturally normative practices, while centering clients’ lived experiences. Emphasis is placed on identifying avoidance patterns, increasing emotion tolerance, and using identity-affirming interventions to support accurate diagnosis and effective, equitable care.
Eating Disorders & Co-Occurring Complex PTSD: Research Gaps & Clinical Challenges
In collaboration with The Dorm, this workshop explores co-occurring eating disorders and complex PTSD, a treatment area often overlooked. Participants will review PTSD, cPTSD, and dsPTSD definitions, examine their prevalence among individuals with eating disorders, and learn trauma-informed approaches to support positive clinical outcomes.
Presenters: Kim Dennis, MD, CEDS – NEDA Clinical Advisory Council | Amanda Fialk, PhD, LCSW, LICSW – Partner & CCO, The Dorm
Beyond Willpower: Understanding the Psychology of Emotional Eating
This 30-minute learning session explores the psychological drivers behind emotional eating, comfort eating, and binge behaviors. Hosted by Shivani Dutt, Manager, Mission Initiatives, and featuring clinical expert Sondra Kronberg, MS, RD, CEDRD-S, the session helps participants understand the difference between biological hunger and emotional coping, build greater awareness of their relationship with food, and access resources for disordered eating support.
Athlete Lived Experience Panel
In collaboration with Athlete EDGE® at Edcares, join us for a candid discussion with elite athletes on the pressures of competitive sports, eating disorders, and the journey to recovery. Panelists Amanda Sobhy, Professional Squash Player; Alice Merryweather, Former Olympic Alpine Skier, Athlete EDGE® Ambassador; and Danny O’Connor, Champion Boxer & Mental Health Advocate share their experiences navigating treatment, performance expectations, and returning to sport.
Topics include seeking help, balancing health and performance, and creating safer, more supportive athletic environments. This discussion is ideal for athletes, coaches, clinicians, and advocates committed to fostering a culture where Every BODY Belongs.
Creating Supportive Kitchen and Grocery Systems for Sustained Recovery
In this webinar, Phoebe Waller, MS, RD, explores how kitchen organization, grocery routines, and everyday food systems can support individuals in eating disorder recovery. Participants will learn how to create sustainable, flexible structures around kitchen inventory, grocery lists, shopping practices, and weekly meal routines—without rigidity or perfectionism. Through reflective questions, real-life examples, and a guided case study, this webinar empowers attendees to reduce decision fatigue, build confidence in food environments, and design personalized systems that align with their recovery goals and lifestyle.
In this webinar, Blair Burnette, PhD, will explore how experiencing a chronic illness or injury can profoundly change one’s body and, in turn, their perception of and relationship with it. Feelings of grief, resentment, and anger are common but difficult to navigate. What does a healthy body image look like when your body has changed dramatically? How can you appreciate your body when it feels like it has let you down or can no longer do the things you love?
This webinar will:
Name, normalize, and validate common body image experiences related to chronic illness and injury
Help attendees explore what body appreciation can mean for them in this context
Provide practical tools and strategies for building appreciation for one’s body and its functions
In this webinar, Alli Spotts-De Lazzer, LMFT, LPCC, CEDS-C and Jenny Mullaney, CCIEDC provide practical strategies for managing the confusion, fear, and frustration families often feel and how to support a loved one’s recovery- at any age.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand the eating disorder experience of your loved one
- Get expert answers to your most pressing questions
- Learn real-life strategies to step “off the eggshells”
Small Steps, Big Change: Self-Compassion Tools for Recovery
In this webinar, Alexandra (Alex) Kasputis, NCC, LMHC-D delves into the transformative power of self-compassion in eating disorder recovery. Learn practical skills to shift away from self-criticism, navigate difficult emotions, and build a kinder relationship with yourself.
Participants will gain:
- A deeper understanding of self-compassion and its three core elements
- Simple, accessible practices for daily support
- Strategies to counter self-criticism and and build a kinder relationship with your body and food
When OCD and Eating Disorders Overlap: Understanding the Connection
Presented in collaboration with the Anxiety & Depression Association of America (ADAA), this webinar led by Dr. Norman Kim, NEDA Clinical Advisor, will explain how obsessions and compulsions can show up in food-related behaviors, provide warning signs to watch for, and offer supportive strategies for starting difficult conversations.
Attendees will leave with greater confidence in spotting concerns early and seeking the right professional help.
In partnership with Families for Depression Awareness (FFDA), this webinar led by Rocio Avila, LCSW, NEDA Clinical Advisor, explores how depression and eating disorders intersect, provides strategies for supporting teens, and offers guidance on accessing effective treatment resources.
In this webinar, Tana Luo, PhD, clinical leader at Equip, will explore Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)—how it shows up in children, teens, and adults, the most common presentations, and key signs to watch for. Participants will also learn why early screening is essential and how ARFID can be effectively treated through Equip’s evidence-based virtual care model.
Step Into My Office: Fostering Mental Health Support for Athletes
In partnership with EDCare’s Athlete EDGE® program, this webinar will help participants to recognize and respond to eating disorders and mental health concerns within team and athletic environments, using approaches that are both supportive and approachable.
In this webinar, Pamela Madsen, MS, LPC, ACS, RYT-2000, explores the connection between eating disorders & substance use—and how to shift from impulsive reactions to intentional, healthier choices.
Participants will gain:
- Understand the link between eating disorders & substance use
- Learn how stress, emotions, and impulsivity impact decision-making
- Discover practical tools from CBT, DBT, and IFS to support recovery
- Feel empowered to create a personalized plan for making mindful, values-driven
In this webinar, Kaitlyn Cornell, LCSW, CEDS-C, explores how Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) techniques can help reframe deeply held beliefs that fuel perfectionism, negative self-perception, and unhelpful eating behaviors.
Participants will learn how to:
- Identify and understand limiting beliefs around food, body image, and self-worth
- Apply practical REBT techniques to help challenge and reframe limiting beliefs
- Explore how to integrate these techniques into daily life
In this webinar, Eleanor B. McAuliffe, LPC-S, CEDS-C, will offer practical strategies for supporting a loved one with an eating disorder, even when denial makes it hard to encourage them to seek treatment. Participants will learn to use both love AND leverage to encourage treatment and promote recovery, set healthy boundaries, identify and address common objections, and de-escalate tense situations.
In this webinar, Chelsea Levy, RD and Maia Campbell, LCSW, will explore the pillars of pleasure and the skills of tuning in, noticing, and savoring what feels neutral, safe, or even pleasurable in our bodies. Learn how connecting to pleasure can support a nourishing relationship with food and body in recovery.
Participants will:
- Reflect on the pillars of pleasure most accessible to their current point in recovery
- Review the skills of tuning in, noticing, and savoring
- Engage in a supported exploration of their mind-body experience of pleasure
- Explore how to reclaim pleasure as a tool in recovery
In this webinar, Gabrielle “Gabby” Katz, MSW, LCSW, CEDS-C, explores the challenges of clothes shopping, including fatphobia, limited size options, and societal pressures around the “ideal” body. Attendees will learn practical strategies to navigate these challenges, such as choosing inclusive stores and how to approach shopping with confidence. Skills will include grounding techniques, mantras, and learning to focus on comfort and fit over appearance. Participants will also learn how to shop with a supportive loved one and manage anxiety before, during, and after shopping, empowering them to embrace body diversity and make shopping a more positive experience.
In this webinar, Makenna Robery, LMFT, eating disorder therapist, dives into how eating disorder behaviors like restriction, bingeing, and over-exercising are often maladaptive coping strategies. Learn how to replace them with positive, sustainable behaviors that align with your values and help you meet your emotional needs in healthier ways.
What you’ll gain:
- Insight into what your eating disorder behaviors are trying to fulfill.
- Practical strategies for coping in more effective, long-term ways
Whether you’re in recovery or supporting someone who is, this webinar is packed with actionable steps to strengthen your journey.
Offered in collaboration with the Anxiety & Depression Association of America (ADAA)
In this webinar, Norman H. Kim, PhD will explore the overlap between eating disorders and anxiety disorders. Dr. King will present the rationale for using exposure-based treatment approaches to help people better manage their anxiety and develop better ability to manage strong emotions.
Co-hosted by NEDA, Eating Disorders Resource Center (EDRC), and Kahani
In this session Mehek Mohan, co-founder of Kahani will share how digital tools complement traditional therapy, who can benefit from these interventions, best practices for integrating technology into care, and a live demo of Kahani, an evidence-based recovery platform.
In this session, Debra Spector, MS, RDN, CDN, a registered dietitian and expert in eating disorders, will guide you through:
- What intuitive eating really looks like from a professional’s perspective.
- How to recognize when you’re ready to eat intuitively.
- Tips for rebuilding trust in your body, especially if you’ve experienced trauma or struggle with PTSD.
In this webinar, Dr. Jaime Fenton, PhD shares practical skills to manage stress in a healthier way. Discover how practicing mindfulness can help you navigate life’s stressors, from school and work pressures to daily challenges, with tools grounded in self-compassion and awareness.
In this webinar, Whitney Otto, MA, PCC and Deb Schachter, LICSW shares the fundamentals of their unique approach to body image healing. You’ll learn how to:
- Discover your personal “Inside Out” body image patterns.
- Engage in a workshop exercise to uncover how you think and feel about your body.
- Learn practical strategies to shift your relationship with your body image.
Please note: this webinar includes mentions of body dissatisfaction.
In this webinar, led by expert Bryn Miller, LPC, CEDS-S, you’ll learn practical strategies to confidently support your loved ones and gain tools to guide them through recovery. You’ll learn to:
- Complete a visual exercise to set clear goals for your Caregiver work.
- Utilize a tracking tool to clearly assess if things are working- and what to do if they aren’t.
- Try out an empowering reframe for approaching the hardest situations with your loved one.
This workshop is intended for anyone supporting a loved one struggling with an eating disorder or mental health issue.