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THE TOP EATING DISORDER COACHES
Eating disorder coaches help people struggling with eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder, or both. Eating disorder coaches can have varied job descriptions, including working with clients face-to-face in their communities, online by phone or through email, or in a group setting. As a coach, an eating disorder specialist provides support to their clients in a way that allows them to develop their own, personalized plan of recovery.
An Eating Disorder Coach is a health care professional who has been trained in the treatment of eating disorders through intensive study, clinical experience, and supervised clinical experience with clients. An eating disorder coach can play a vital role in helping clients overcome this psychological hurdle because she is someone to whom the client can speak about their fears, their doubts, and their troubles.
Each eating disorder coaches, each with their unique style trying to help the clients overcome eating disorders and get their lives back on track, and asked them what’s extraordinary about their coaching and what has endorsed their massive success.
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Carolyn Costin
In her early twenties, Carolyn recovered from anorexia nervosa, earned two masters degrees, became a teacher and began her career a psychotherapist.
After treating her first eating disorder client in 1979, Carolyn recognized it was her calling. Her successful treatment of those with eating disorders led her to bring her philosophy to the public through her speaking, her books and the founding of her unique residential treatment center, Monte Nido.
Sarah Rzemieniak
Working as an eating disorder recovery coach feels like such a gift after years of struggle and at last recovery from my own eating disorder. I feel extremely grateful to be able to do this work today.
I made the career transition from working as a dietitian to working as an eating disorder recovery coach after realizing that it was the coaching aspect of the dietetics work that I loved the most and wanted to focus all my attention on.
I find it so rewarding to be able to support individuals in the day-to-day aspects of their recovery journeys like I would have wanted, and to help them bring about the awakening and strengthening of their vibrant, healthy selves from a coaching perspective.
Lauren Bickford
Lauren Bickford has a passion for helping people to recover from eating disorders and body image issues. She provides eating disorder recovery coaching, with a specialty in working with teens and adults struggling with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, body image issues, disordered eating, and athletes.
Lauren loves to work with clients of all backgrounds, but also has expertise in providing eating disorder and body image coaching to helping professionals i.e. therapists, RDs, & coaches.
Dr. Dorie McCubbrey
Believing that she had to be “thin to fit in,” Dorie went on her first diet when she was in the 6th Grade – and joined two-thirds of girls who are estimated to be on their first diet by their 10th birthday. At first she received compliments for her weight loss, but by age 11 she had developed anorexia.
Threatened to be “tube-fed” if she didn’t eat more, she restored enough weight so her friends and family wouldn’t worry. Although she “looked fine,” she continued to struggle with body image issues and fluctuated between dieting and binge eating throughout Middle School and High School. In College, she was a varsity athlete, and ultimately developed bulimia, like many of her teammates. In Graduate School, Dorie’s restrictive eating, binge eating and purging worsened – with weight fluctuations from anorexic lows to highs of obesity. In her late 20’s, Dorie sought treatment for her eating disorders, and finally found freedom from these behaviors after more than 15 years of misery. She wondered, “What would have happened if I never went on that first diet?”
Laura Phelan
Laura Phelan is an Eating Disorder and body image Therapeutic Coach and the founder of Phelan Well.
Since her recovery from Anorexia 10 years ago, she now specialises in Eating Disorder Recovery and helps people develop a healthy relationship with food and body image.
Her classical training is from the National Centre of Eating Disorders, this remarkable and inspiring training is continually updated in line with the latest thinking from a range of psychologies and healing approaches and is approved by The British Psychological Society.
Laura also works in a range of modalities, including CBT, trauma release rewind work, body image coaching, visualisation and a deep healing technique to help people reach FULL recovery.
Laura works 1 to 1 with clients, writes articles on mental health, wellbeing and eating disorder recovery and delivers talks and workshops for companies, brands and schools to empower people to look after their wellbeing as a whole and feel well from the inside out. She is an also an ambassador for B-eat, the UK’s leading eating disorder charity and a Mental Health trainer for Mind Charity.
Elisa
I’m an Eating Disorder Recovery Coach helping people recover from various eating disorders, extreme dieting behaviors and helping them return back to intuitive eating.I’m a Certified Life Coach and a NLP Master Practitioner (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Certified RTT™ Therapist (Rapid Transformational Therapy) and I’m also trained in Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy (EDIT)™
Cindy Spratt
When I was young, I loved being in the kitchen, food was yummy and fun: it meant freedom and security. As a pre-teen, the art of cooking evolved into an impassioned skill, as I gained a job with a catering company and went on to cook and serve food for many years.
As a teenager, my relationship with food morphed into something different.
I spent a decade as a competitive gymnast, but when the time came to quit, the drastic drop in exercise along with puberty, catty change-rooms, and gossipy high-school hallways had their way with my once loving, and rather normal, relationship with food.
From my teens well into my twenties, my food journey became my largest struggle. I found myself in the throes of binging and purging, starving, dieting, over-exercising, and popping pills. You name it, I did it. I was at complete loss and the loneliness was unbearable.
Erin Grumley
Being around family can be stressful and exhausting. Whether you are worried about being gendered correctly or if you are anxious about them hovering over you to make sure you are eating, it can take a toll on you.
But it isn’t just family. Interacting with the world can be just as exhausting.
Thoughts about food can be intrusive and can take away from being engaged in conversation with friends or coworkers. Going shopping, going to the grocery store, or going to the gym can all cause your eating disorder brain to fire on all four cylinders. Or, as somebody who identifies as gender expansive, it could mean correcting people, educating people, or just deciding it isn’t worth the battle more often than you would like.
Sarah Lee
“As your coach, you will find that I am open-minded, compassionate, encouraging, and goal-oriented. I want to meet you where you are.”
Serving and working as an Eating Disorder Recovery Coach is one of the most rewarding accomplishments of my life. Helping to transform and heal relationships with food and body has proven to be extremely gratifying work, changing one life at a time.
As your coach, you will find that I am open-minded, compassionate, encouraging, and goal-oriented. I want to meet you where you are. My desire is to help you achieve your highest potential, not by strategies that punish, but through those that nourish. Because of my personal experience and educational certifications, I am committed and equipped to guide you along your journey. As we work together, eating challenges and struggles with your body become a place of exploration. Instead of seeing such challenges as the enemy, they become opportunities for growth and self-development.
Kirsten Hunneyball
Hello, and welcome! If any of these questions resonated with you, I am here to help. My name is Kirsten Hunneyball and I am a Certified Life & Recovery Coach who addresses challenges to do with eating disorders, addiction, body image, self-esteem, relationships & communication, spirituality, goal setting and personal empowerment.
There is nothing that brings me more joy, than to watch someone move from a place of feeling hopelessness in their life, to a completely transformed version of themselves. I believe my purpose is to bring light to those who have felt lost in the darkness. I do this by digging deep with my clients on an emotional, spiritual, physical, and mental journey.
Erin LoPorto
Erin LoPorto is the creator of Happy Body! Life Coaching and the “Embody. Empower. Evolve.” formula for healing from trauma and eating disorders. After overcoming her own eating disorder, Erin studied with leading experts in yoga, energy healing, bodywork, and somatic expressive therapy becoming an expert on healing the mind-body connection.
She has taught at Walden Behavioral Care for Eating Disorders since 2013 and held a private practice since 2011.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
Most eating disorder programs have a path or method for people to follow – but no path has ever worked for everyone. I help people rebuild trust in themselves. Through a process of helping them notice their joy and pleasure, I empower my clients to connect with their own bodies and intuition so that they can create and define their own path to healing. I offer one of the only programs that focus on healing the relationship with the body and not just the relationship to food and behaviors.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
The single most important thing that has contributed to my success as a coach is my unyielding belief that every individual already has the answers they seek inside them. This is supported by my own journey of healing where I learned how to trust myself even when I was going against the crowd. I gained further tools for helping people to connect with their own knowledge through the study of yoga, meditation, somatic expressive therapy, and energy healing.
Conclusion
There you have it, you’ve just read about the industry’s top eating disorder coaches.
What has been your biggest takeaway from this?
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