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THE TOP EATING DISORDER COACHES

4th January 2024

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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In Brief : The Top Eating Disorder Coaches

Erin Berenson – Erin Berenson’s coaching approach is deeply personalized, drawing from her own journey to recovery from disordered eating and incorporating principles of neuroplasticity for lasting behavioral changes.
Lexi Crouch – Lexi Crouch brings authenticity and empathy to her coaching, drawing from her own lived experience of overcoming an eating disorder to deeply connect with her clients.
Dr. Dorie McCubbrey – Dr. Dorie’s coaching is informed by her own struggles and ultimate freedom from over 15 years of eating disorders, emphasizing the importance of understanding each individual’s unique journey.
Laura Phelan – Laura Phelan’s coaching draws from a diverse range of modalities, including CBT, trauma release, body image coaching, and deep healing techniques, to support clients in achieving full recovery.
Elisa – Elisa’s coaching combines various modalities including NLP and RTT™ therapy, tailored to help individuals recover from eating disorders and return to intuitive eating.
Cindy Spratt – Cindy’s coaching journey stems from her personal struggle with food, evolving from a love for cooking to a decade-long battle with various eating disorder behaviors.
Erin Grumley – Erin Grumley’s coaching addresses the challenges of navigating family dynamics and societal pressures, offering support to individuals recovering from various eating disorders.
Sarah Lee – Sarah Lee’s coaching emphasizes compassion and goal-oriented support, drawing from her own transformative journey to guide individuals in healing their relationship with food and body.
Kirsten Hunneyball – Kirsten Hunneyball’s coaching encompasses a wide range of challenges including eating disorders, addiction, self-esteem, and personal empowerment, providing holistic support to individuals seeking transformation.
Erin LoPorto – Erin LoPorto’s coaching centers around rebuilding trust and empowering individuals to define their own path to healing, emphasizing the importance of reconnecting with joy and intuition.

Erin Berenson

Erin Berenson is a Carolyn Costin Certified Eating Disorder (ED) Recovery Coach, specializing in guiding individuals towards a life free from disordered eating patterns. Through personalized support tailored to each client’s unique needs and goals, Erin helps her clients develop sustainable habits and foster a positive body image.

Driven by her own experiences overcoming an eating disorder, Erin understands firsthand the challenges and triumphs of the recovery process. Her personal journey fuels her passion for supporting others in reclaiming their lives and rediscovering their worth beyond the constraints of their eating disorder.

Outside of her coaching practice, Erin is an advocate for eating disorder awareness and mental health education, working to reduce stigma and promote understanding within her community. She is also a sought-after speaker and workshop facilitator, sharing her expertise and insights to inspire hope and transformation in others.

What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?

As someone who has recovered from an ED myself, I understand that the road to recovery is different for each person. My coaching style is tailored to each client’s specific goals and needs and every detail of my program is customized to the individual client. My training is based on Carolyn Costin’s 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder, but unlike more traditional approaches, I also incorporate principles of neuroplasticity into my approach, guiding clients to help rewire their brain patterns and develop healthier neural pathways, fostering lasting changes in behavior and mindset.

What according to you has been the most critical thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?

The single most important factor contributing to my success as a coach is my unwavering commitment to fostering a safe and empathetic environment where clients feel truly understood and supported in their journey towards recovery. I combine both traditional and non-traditional approaches, leveraging evidence-based strategies alongside innovative methods to ensure comprehensive support tailored to each individual’s needs.

Lexi Crouch

Lexi Crouch is Clinical Nutritionist (Bachelor of Health Science), Media Health Expert, Eating Disorder Coach, Entrepreneur, Keynote Speaker and Yoga Teacher. Recovering from a severe and enduring Eating Disorder over a decade ago which took up most of her younger years, Lexi has gone on to coach and mentor others to do the same. Combining her lived expertise and health science background, Lexi uses a combination of techniques to empower and help individuals flourish. She has a very rewarding career in which she gives back to others and is published regularly in the media.

What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?

Coming from a personal lived experience, I am a big believer of being real and authentic to best help others on their journey. I have found it is the best way to really meet the individual at a deep level and to be able to connect and relate to what they are going through and to be best able to guide. As a coach, I use a variety of lifestyle techniques, nutrition and personal growth strategies to help bring balance to assist with overcoming behaviours and limiting thoughts of those going through and an Eating Disorder or Mental Health issues.

What according to you has been the most critical thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?

It would have to be my personal self-care and practices to be my best version for my clients. I believe in practicing what I preach and looking after both my physical and mental health has contributed to my success. By doing so I remain strong, balanced and grounded which ultimately has helped bring a lot of happiness and success into my life and been the best way to give my full capacity to my clients to help them achieve their best.

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?

Let me know in the comment section below.

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