WELCOME TO
The Art and the Science of the Treatment
of Eating Disorders


A Comprehensive, Multi-dimensional Resource for the Support and Education
of Eating Disorder Professionals
 
"Ms. Natenshon's grasp of her 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 matter empowers her audience to feel enhanced and prepared to face clinical challenges. By combining clear and innovative thinking, concrete tools, and a wealth of clinical experience, she helps professionals 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 University: 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
 
   About the book
•   Table of contents
•   Testimonials
•   Book review

 
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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    for  Parents  or  Professionals

 

Articles for Professionals

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


How Eating Disorders Heal

"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.
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Nine Part Series:
 •
 Picky Eating Adults and Kids
 • Early Childhood Feeding Disorders
 
 
Abbie provides consultation and
   referrals for brain-based interventions.

  
Read Intervention article here

Seeking common threads to effective practice

What psychotherapists, medical doctors, nutritionists and other health professionals need to know...

Combining the Feldenkrais Method with Traditional Psychotherapy to Treat Eating Disorders

Practitioners…. avoid these 9 common pitfalls

More Articles...



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.

 
     Read Anat Baniel's new book!

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Other Resources:

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NEDA Conference Sees Parents as Agents for Change

 

Upcoming & Recent Events

Fall 2011

For Professionals:

1. 3 part Webinar Series: ED treatment and recovery    
2. Online consultation groups for ED Psychotherapists

CEU credits to become available for professional training seminars

 For Patients and Parents

1. 5 part Webinar Series: Parenting the ED child
2. 3 part Webinar Series: ED treatment and recovery
3
. On-line consultation groups for parents
4
. Adult patient therapy groups starting

Media and Publications
101.9 FM News Interview: New York City: ED in Young Children

Feldenkrais and Eating Disorders   In Press:  Academy of Eating Disorders Online Newsletter, AED Forum.  October, 2011

“Seeking Common Threads to Effective Practice”   In Press:  Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention   2012, Volume 20 #1.

E-book    Knowledge is Power: Understanding and Healing Eating Disorders  Fall, 2011

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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Individual Skype & phone consultation
for psychotherapists

Group Teleconference consultation

A 10-session training webinar for eating disorder professionals
 
...call (847) 432-1795 for more details.


NEED A SPEAKER?
FOR KEYNOTES AND TRAINING WORKSHOPS
 
CONTACT ABBIE

 


For Nutritionists and Registered Dietitians

New workshop
 
12 tenets of RD practice


Professional & Psychotherapy Services
Provided for
Adults and Children
Families and Clinicians
 
•  Parent coaching/consultation
•  Treatment for adults
•  Adult treatment groups
•  Marathon treatment interventions
   for out of town patients/families

•  Marriage and Family Counseling
•  ED diagnostic eval/assessment
•  Case management consultation


Holistic Adjunctive Treatments
•  Anat Baniel Method
•  Feldenkrais Method
       ...for ED & body image
          disturbances
       ...for the Elderly
          at www.myseniorportal.com

Featured Workshops:

Eating Disorder Survival for Kids and Parents: Empowering Parents as Recovery Advocates
Click Here for full details on this exciting new workshop.

Neuroscience and eating disorders: The role of brain plasticity as a resource in healing the eating disordered patient Click Here

Embodied Mindfulness in the Creation of the Self
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Services available to Educators.


About Abbie

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Resources for you and your patients:
 
  Click to read over
100 featured articles
by Abbie
     
  This site addresses kids' concerns about food, healthy eating, weight management and body image
     

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