Helen Rydge is a Clinical Psychologist who has worked with clients with eating disorders for 20 years across a range of public and private settings. She has provided supervision to those working in eating disorders since 2010 and runs workshops on the treatment of eating disorders. Helen formerly worked as the Clinical Lead at InsideOut Institute, where she oversaw the re-development of the Essentials online introductory training for eating disorders. She has conducted research into the treatment of eating disorders and is particularly interested in the role of motivational interviewing techniques.

Helen works with adults and teens with eating disorders, and uses a range of evidenced based treatment models, most prominently Family-based treatment, and CBTe. Her treatment usually involves adjunctive motivational approaches. She also brings a range of experience across additional treatment models, including SSCM and MANTRA, and has a thorough understanding of the core principles and issues related to working with clients with eating disorders and co-morbid concerns.

Helen is also well placed to help clinicians manage eating disorders within the private practice setting with knowledge of issues such as building a treatment team, team communication and ethical and boundary concerns.

Consultation Modality: Consultation groups will generally be based on case presentation brought by consultees. This will then lead to other issues that will be helpful generally to others in the group. We may cover strategies using discussion, education, and practice. Helen is also happy to share resources she has developed over the years.

Availability: Wednesday morning or afternoon, or Thursday lunchtime at 12pm or 1pm.

Anthea Fursland has practiced as a clinical psychologist for 40 years, in the UK, US and Australia. Over the past 15 years she has consulted with clinicians all over Australia. Anthea uses various treatments in her practice, mostly CBT-E (trained by Fairburn), and also SSCM (trained by its creator, Gini McIntosh).

Consultation Modality: Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT-E) and Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM): I am flexible with timing and frequency of consultations. I believe that good, regular consultation improves clinician confidence and competence, thus resulting in better outcomes for our patients. I find that what works best is people presenting a case, which not only raises issues pertaining to that case, but is helpful to others in the group. Also useful is going over a particular strategy (e.g., the formulation in CBT-E), using discussion, illustration, examples and role play.

Mandy Goldstein is a Clinical Psychologist who has worked in the treatment of eating disorders in the private practice context for more than 13 years. She has undertaken research on the dissemination of evidence based treatment to private practice, and is well placed to support those considering working in or transitioning to the private practice space. Mandy has also trained in day program and inpatient environments, and works with teens and adults across the spectrum of eating disorders.  She has provided supervision to those working in eating disorders since 2012 and runs workshops on the treatment of eating disorders. Mandy works with adults, teens and children with eating disorders, and uses a range of treatment models in her practice, most prominently Family-based treatment, and CBTe. She brings a range of experience across different treatment models, including a sound understanding of the core principles of working with eating disorders, as well as working with patients with trauma backgrounds.

Consultation Modality: Mandy provides consultation across the age span and across a range of evidence based modalities, informed by an understanding of the core principles of eating disorders and their treatment, and a commitment to reflective practice in supervision. For those working with adults, consultation will draw primarily on CBTe principles; for those working with children or teens, sessions will draw primarily on FBT principles. There will be flexibility to explore other evidence based approaches including MANTRA, Interpersonal psychotherapy, Structured Supportive Clinical Management, Adolescent Parent Therapy, and Adolescent Focused Therapy as needed. Mandy has a particular interest in working with clients with eating disorders and trauma and brings keen understanding of formulation and treatment of these more complex presentations to her consultations. Sessions are intended to support both novice or more experienced clinicians wanting to enhance their skills and reflect on practice, and aim to support improved confidence and competence in working with this complex group of clients. Mandy is also able to provide consultation for those new to treating eating disorders in private practice settings, or considering how best to adapt evidence based modalities for online use. Mandy is an ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician and able to provide consultation to those wanting to apply for or maintain their credential.

Katryna Henry is a Senior Social Worker at Central Coast Area Health Service with the Eating Disorders Outpatient Service. Katryna has worked in the public sector for over 25 years and in the private sector over the last 7 years as a Mental Health Social Worker and Clinical Supervisor.

Katryna has over 15 years’ experience specialising in the field of Eating Disorders with extensive experience in the assessment and provision of evidence-based practice of Family Based Treatment (FBT) in the outpatient setting, and in particular with complex presentations.

Throughout 2017-2018 Katryna was FBT Champion for the district and was involved in facilitating support, consultation and training for clinicians as part of the NSW Eating Disorder Workforce Plan.

Katryna has since continued to provide consultation and supervision to staff within the public and private setting and is currently involved in the provision of  supervision as part of the National Eating Disorders Collaboration (NEDC) credentialing packages.

Consultation Modality: Consultations will focus on clinicians building skills and confidence in the delivery of the evidence based practice of Family Based Therapy. The groups can discuss individual cases or general themes that are identified and discussed in a reflective framework. Consultations will draw primarily from FBT principles but may draw on Systemic Family Therapy, Adolescent Focused Therapy (AFT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – Enhanced for Adolescents (CBT-E for adolescents). Group consultations can focus on the complexities of families and empowering parents in supporting their young person in recovery and managing levels of distress. Groups will accommodate the needs of each group participant. Welcome any level of experience from beginners to more experienced clinicians.

Availability: Mondays at 12pm – 1pm or Fridays at 1pm – 2pm AEST.

Kellie Lavender specialises in working with adolescents and young adults. She became a certified FBT therapist in 2013 and an Institute Faculty member/supervisor in 2018 and trainer (2020) . She has presented widely on FBT at local and international conferences and has published a paper on rebooting FBT following perceived failed attempts. Kellie provides supervision to clinicians both in the public and private setting as well as specialist FBT training and consultation to treatment teams across New Zealand and internationally. Her modality of choice and expertise is FBT but also provides training and supervision for Adolescent Focused Therapy (AFT) a manualized, empirically evaluated individual treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa. Kellie has a keen interest in neuroscience and integrates this into all the modalities she supervises. 

Consultation Modality: FBT & AFT.

Availability: Tuesday, Weds or Thursday at 12pm AEDT

Renata Wosik is an experienced Psychologist who has over 15 years clinical experience working in complex clinical presentations. She has worked in Government sectors, NGO’s and Private Practice, and developed an interest in eating disorders in 2006 when she trained in FBT whilst working within NSW Health. Renata specialises in FBT for working with young people with eating disorders, and sees young people in the context of their family. She has strived to create flexibility into the FBT model to allow for more complex family presentations, and has worked hard to adapt protocols with success in challenging client groups. Renata currently works in her own private practice in the South West of Sydney, and this has now grown to 2 clinics and growing still. Renata is a reflective clinician who enjoys spending time in supervision allowing clinicians to develop curiosity within their practice, and is passionate about working within the Maudsley Framework.

Consultation Modality: FBT Maudsley family therapy for eating disorders (child and adolescent cases)

Group session requirements will be discussed within each group, and each group will be tailored to suit the needs of the individual group. Usually case consultations are a good opportunity to allow the group to learn and provide valuable insight into someones work. Collaboration, insight and reflective practice are all vital to the development of good supervision groups, and look forward to working with clinicians to better their understanding and challenge thought in this area.

Availability:
Day/time: Thursdays. Consultation frequency is flexible although I generally find regular supervision works best on a fortnightly or monthly basis.

Terrill is a dietitian with over 25 years experience working with people around their relationships with food, body and eating. Her work has included both public and private eating disorder services in Melbourne, across inpatient, day program and community treatments and with both adults and adolescents. Currently she is working in private practice and consultancy and in the provision of clinical supervision for dietitians, emphasising motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral skills enhancement and from a weight neutral framework.

Consultation Modality: Consultation will encompass all aspects of dietetic work across eating disorder diagnoses and settings for treatment. This can include how nutritional therapy fits with various evidence based modalities such as FBT and CBT-E, scope of practice, dietetic boundaries and self care. A reflective but structured approach will be used with 2 participants each time being asked to bring a case or situation for all to discuss. Terrill is trained in motivational interviewing for supervision and has been running group supervision for some years so is comfortable working in this setting and supports practice standards for supervision for dietitians that are available on the DAA website.

Availability: Terrill sessions will start after June this year. Once you sign up, she will reach out to finalise days and times, based on the consultees preference.

Watch this short Q&A session with dietitian Terrill Bruere APD who talks about what to expect if you join her online consultation group: