Help your patients start recovering now.
Eating disorders are on the rise.
It's been an incredibly challenging few years. The Covid-19 pandemic took a lot away from everyone, and we are still seeing a huge increase in mental health concerns. The increase in eating disorders continues and has been referred to as the "shadow pandemic".
You can help.
You can help people living with eating disorders, no matter what area you work in, as a health care provider. You may even be the first person to pick up on the red flags of an eating disorder. Regardless of whether you pick up on the eating disorder or not, you can still advocate for early and timely intervention to reduce harm and suffering.
The hospital programs are overflowing.
Hospitals programs are overflowing and waitlists are just getting longer. Our healthcare systems are struggling to keep up with the ever-increasing need for eating disorder care.
Any health care provider can help share the load.
HCPs in the community are stepping up to help offload hospital programs. If eating disorder care can start in primary care settings, hospital stays can be reduced or avoided altogether. This is a win-win situation, isn't it?
If you're feeling unprepared, worried and fearful of making a mistake, you're not alone.
Every single day, I hear HCPs say they aren't sure how to manage eating disorder care. Most training programs, regardless of health discipline, do not train us in detecting, assessing and treating eating disorders. Of course you're having trouble getting your feet beneath you when an eating disorder case comes across your caseload.
Don't let imposter syndrome hold you back.
Every health care provider I have worked with starts there too. They tell me they are afraid of saying something wrong, so they don't say anything at all. HCPs everywhere are feeling stuck.
This is why I do this work.
Hi. I’m Jillian Walsh, RD, RP
Eating Disorder Care Provider and Health Educator
I am the founder and Clinical Lead at Change Creates Change Eating Disorder Care where I specialize in working with families who have a child living with an eating disorder. I became a dietitian in 2014 and later completed my masters to become a counselling therapist in 2019. I have spent over ten years working with all ages of folks living with eating disorders across Canada in outpatient, day treatment, inpatient and now private practice.
Eating disorders are one of the most deadly mental illnesses, yet health care providers often receive inadequate formal training in this area. I created this course so I could bridge this gap. My goal is to educate other health care providers about eating disorder care, but most importantly, improve your confidence in supporting folks living with eating disorders.
Let me teach you how to navigate addressing suspicions of an eating disorder and treatment best practices. We can work together to share the burden of eating disorders on our hospital system and avoid treatment delays.
And together, we fight the eating disorder.
VIRTUAL TRAINING: EATING DISORDER CARE FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
EDC for HCPs is an 8-week long intensive training that combines on-demand education modules and weekly live calls with Jillian Walsh, RD, RP.
Unit 1: Motivating Change in Eating Disorder Recovery
Unit 2: Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment
Unit 3: Symptom Interruption
Unit 4: The Refeeding Process and Setting Treatment Goal Weights
Unit 5: Navigating Eating Difficulties
Unit 6: Supported Eating
Unit 7: Managing Discomfort
Unit 8: Cultural Competence, Internalized Biases, and Clinician Burnout
8 CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS
What You Get:
Education
Education modules to help you build a strong knowledge base of eating disorders so that you can best support your patient along their recovery journey.
Available in video and podcast format so you can tune in on the go!
1:1 Call With Jillian
Once you complete the course, you can book a 30-minute 1:1 call with Jillian to discuss any questions you have.
Patient Handouts
Download PDF resources to use with patients right away!
Self-Study Readings
Recent and relevant peer-reviewed literature to bring your practical learning deeper.
Tools and Resources
We want you to feel comfortable helping your patients who are living with an eating disorder. As a registrant of the EDC for HCPs training, you will receive access to downloadable handouts that you can use with your patients right away. The handouts cover topics such as readiness to change, symptom interruption and the Refeeding Hierarchy (as seen on the left).
We have supported clinicians from organizations across Canada.
What Others Are Saying:
"This is a great course to learn more about eating disorders and provided practical tools/handouts to use when counselling patients. This course has helped increase my confidence with seeing eating disorder patients."
"I have taken at least 3 course for health professionals on eating disorders, and have found this one, by far, to be the most practical and useful. Jillian has a down to earth style and one unexpected benefit was picking up insightful tips or phrases she uses. I would highly recommend this course for any dietitian wanting to learn about eating disorders."
"As a primary care practitioner without much prior training in E.Ds, this course provided a great introduction and overview of what I needed to feel more confident and comfortable providing care to patients with eating disorders. Jillian is very knowledgable and explained the information clearly. The live weekly Q&A sessions were great for questions that came up from course material and from real cases. I would highly recommend this course!"
"EDC for PCPs is an excellent course that provides a great overview and practical tips in bridging the care of those with eating disorder, awaiting specialized care. The resources are well thought out and helpful in guiding the practitioner and the client work through eating recovery. Through her presentations and Q&A sessions, Jillian demonstrates her expertise, passion, and sincerity in supporting PCPs in their care for those affected with eating disorder."
"One of the best eating disorder courses I have taken in my career. The information obtained from the course was so easily transferable to practice and was of immediate benefit to helping youth and families."
"I have been thoroughly impressed by [Jillian], she provided supportive effective understanding and knowledge to support our eating disorder patients - thank you for supporting me and supporting my patients."
"Overall, a very comprehensive and detailed summary of how to provide care for those with eating disorders in the outpatient field and has left me feeling much more confident to move forward working with this population."
"This course offered useful knowledge and tools to help patients with eating disorders. I feel more confident in my ability to help these patients moving forward."
"Jillian is very knowledgeable and engaging. Her content will help you provide a strong base for treating the ED population."
