Professionals

As professionals, you play a key role in identifying eating distress.

Eating distress and eating disorders can be serious and complex mental health illnesses. They are characterised by negative thoughts about body size and weight, food and eating. 

As professionals, you can play a key role in the identification of eating distress and finding support services. Support and treatment services are vital to the care and recovery from eating distress.

Eating Distress North East can train you to support people with eating distress, aiding early identification and prevention.

We can help you to start those difficult conversations and offer an easy referral path to our service. We’ll also give you the skills and practical information to support people within your own service.

Our training for professionals is tried and tested, highly regarded and easy to understand. We offer training options that focus on awareness, early identification and early intervention, and can be tailored to your specific needs.

Our Services

Education and Training

We deliver a range of CPD-accredited education and training sessions on eating distress/disorders. Focused on increasing knowledge, understanding and confidence, they promote early identification, intervention and recovery.

All our education and training services are informed and underpinned by our extensive experience supporting people with eating distress:

Working with eating disorders for professionals

This training assists professionals with early identification of an eating disorder /eating distress, builds confidence and explores strategies to best support those in their care.

Understanding Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

Exploring misconceptions around form of eating disorder, this training develops an understanding of signs and symptoms and how to talk to someone about ARFID.

Neurodiversity and eating distress

This training explores the links between neurodiversity and eating distress and supports participants to apply new knowledge effectively within their work setting.

Holding onto Hope for professionals

This is an in-depth skills training course for professionals working with someone with an eating disorder/distress which focuses on communication, thinking styles and behaviour. Our training will help you develop knowledge of eating disorders/distress and a toolkit to better support someone in your care.

Who are our education and training sessions for?

Examples of people we’ve delivered talks and training to include:

• GPs
• Mental health support services
• Schools and universities
• Young people’s services
• Community organisations, local authorities, and companies

We can also design bespoke education and training packages, please get in touch with us to discuss.

Children and Young People

We can design and deliver workshops for children and young people in schools and youth settings, creating a safe space for exploration of themes including mental health, self-esteem, body image, self-soothing and coping strategies.

These can be complemented with additional education for teachers, youth workers, other staff, and parents/carers for a holistic package of education and support.

Employers and organisations

We can support you to understand how to recognise eating distress in your staff team, how to sensitively respond, what organisational measures you might want to consider, and what further support you and your employees can access.

Why EDNE?

EDNE is a centre of excellence for eating distress support in the North East.

We are the only specialist eating distress service in the region offering therapeutic counselling.  We have over 30 years of experience in delivering high-quality services to anyone experiencing eating distress.

Read more About Us.

Contact Us

To find out more information or to book a training course, please contact our Education and Training Officer Sarah Lou Murray at sarahlou.murray@edne.org.uk

We can also design and deliver bespoke training packages to suit your needs, please get in touch with us and we can arrange a meeting to discuss. We offer both virtual and in-person training to best suit the needs of your organisation.

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