The Art of Treatment
A Resource for Professionals

Eating disorders are complex and integrative diseases that demand a unique and novel approach to treatment, patient, and the family. Effective treatment requires heightened self-awareness and a creative and facile use of the professional’s self in ushering patient and family towards healing. You no longer need to feel unprepared to handle these cases or compelled to refer them outside of your own practice. This site provides the education, resources, and consultation you need to become fully prepared to meet these treatment challenges yourself.

“Ms. Natenshon is a gifted and engaging presenter in the area of eating disorders and its treatment. Her grasp of the material, ability to synthesize important insights and impart them in a highly "usable" manner is impressive and inspiring. Her clinical sensitivity and passion for her subject empowers her audience to leave feeling enhanced and prepared to face clinical challenges. By combining clear thinking, concrete tools and a wealth of clinical experience, she helps you understand not only what to do when treating this population, but why.
Ava Carn-Watkins, Ph.D.Assistant Director, Graduate Program in Counseling Psychology
The Family Institute at Northwestern Universiy: Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies
 
 
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Doing What Works:
An integrative system for the
treatment of eating disorders
from diagnosis to recovery

 A must read for
team practitioners,
patients and parents.

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This book could save your child's
          life.
  
 "When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder" provides parents with hope, practical solutions, and the capacity to become effective advocates for child and recovery.
 
      Recommended by Oprah Winfrey

"It would have made such a difference in all
our lives had we found this book sooner." - JG
  
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Articles for Professionals

The Health Professional’s Unique Use
of Self in Treating an Eating Disorder


"How I Practice." Reprinted from Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention
After months or even years of treatment, parents were at a loss to understand what eating disorders are and what they imply about their child's needs, concerns, and emotional resiliency. Read More...

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 Free Guides for Professionals
Here are some tips for using When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder: A Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers in your professional practice.
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 The Free Guide for Professionals
The guide offers useful strategies and treatment ideas from the book for professionals to incorporate into their practice. Click Here

 

 
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NEDA Conference Sees Parents as Agents for Change
 
  
Treatment Innovations

 Learn more about the therapeutic effects of the Feldenkrais Method

 Learn more about the therapeutic effects of the Anat Baniel Method based on the work of Moshe Feldenkrais in treating eating disorders and body image disturbances.

 
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Consultation Services for Professionals

 Abigail Natenshon offers a variety of keynote speaking engagements, professional consultations and training workshops for health professionals.
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Upcoming & Recent Events

 • Hadassah Magazine interviews Abbie Natenshon,
    Dec/Jan issue

 • New therapy groups starting:
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       • Adolescent Group

  • Consultation Groups forming for ED Psychotherapists
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         consultation groups

  • A 10-session training webinar for
   eating disorder professionals
 

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Provided for
 Adults and Children
 Families, and Clinicians
 

Featured Workshops:

Eating Disorder Survival for Kids and Parents: Empowering Parents as Recovery Advocates
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 Coming Soon: Neuroscience and eating disorders: The role of brain plasticity as a resource in healing the eating disordered patient


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100 featured articles
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  This site addresses kids' concerns about food, healthy eating, weight management and body image
     
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