Eating Disorder Education

The FBT Course Dietitians Have Been Missing

Deepen your expertise in Family-Based Treatment (FBT) with our comprehensive online course.

BONUS! Free monthly studygroups with the instructors for the lifetime of the course!

23 CE Credits Pending Approval by Commission on Dietetic Registration
Eligible through September 2029

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Because “figure it out as you go” shouldn’t be the standard for treating adolescents with eating disorders

 Most dietitians who end up on an FBT team learn on the job, piecing together protocol from conference sessions, hallway conversations, and trial and error with real families. Family-Based Treatment is one of the most effective approaches we have for adolescent eating disorders, yet dietitian-specific training in how to actually implement it has been almost impossible to find. Until now.

What you’ll walk away with

Confident Grasp of FBT’s Core Components

A clear understanding of how they apply specifically to your role as the dietitian on the team through all three phases of threatment.

Method for Determining Target Weight Ranges

A repeatable method for determining individualized target weight ranges along the recovery timeline, so you’re never guessing.

Practical Feeding Strategies

Practical feeding strategies and behavior management plans you can use with families.

Tools to Support Families

The tools to support families through the messy parts: crisis moments, plateaus, ambivalence, and relapse.

Return-to-Sport Guidelines

Guidelines and clear instructions on navigating physical activity and recovery.

Specialized Guidance

Specialized guidance for diverse populations, ARFID, and higher levels of care.

Plus direct instruction from leaders in the field, including Renee Rienecke, PhD; Rebecka Peebles, MD; and Sarah Tores, RD

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Who is this for?

Dietitians who are ready to stop learning FBT by accident and start practicing it with real skill, whether you’re brand new to eating disorder work or you’ve been doing this for years and want to sharpen what you know.


 Enroll now and become the dietitian every family needs in child and adolescent eating disorder treatment. The field needs many more RDs who are confident in working with families and young patients. Join us!

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Here’s what to expect:

Connection: Explore the dynamic role of Family-Based Treatment (FBT) in managing adolescent eating disorders.

This course delivers essential knowledge that will enable you to understand and effectively apply FBT, enhancing your practice and offering substantial benefits to your clients and their families.

Evidence-Based Learning: Immerse yourself in a curriculum that integrates the latest FBT research with best practices.

Gain valuable insights from seasoned experts in adolescent eating disorders, positioning you as a skilled practitioner in family-centered treatment approaches.

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You’ll get

  • 23 CEs for Dietitians
  • Registration includes Monthly Live Study Groups at no cost to enrolled students
  • 100% Online and self paced 20 Part Series
  • Hear and learn directly from a parent who implemented FBT with her child
  • BONUS Module: Method for calculating estimated target weight range for recovering adolescents
  • Course developed by experts at the tops of their fields
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What You’ll Gain From this Course

Lived experience knowledge

Includes perspective and lessons from Katie Maki, RN, a parent with lived experience of supporting her child with an eating disorder

Best practices

Special attention to best practices for returning individuals to their estimated growth curve and identifying target weights

Monthly Live Study Groups

Registration includes Monthly Live Study Groups at no cost to enrolled students

What you will learn

When you complete this program this is what you can expect to achieve

Introduction to FBT and Its Role in Eating Disorder Treatment

Understand the principles of FBT and how it transforms the treatment landscape for adolescents with eating disorders.

Engaging Families in Treatment

Learn strategies to effectively involve families in the treatment process, enhancing the support system for adolescents.

Addressing Challenges in FBT

Navigate common challenges and learn to overcome obstacles in family-based interventions.

Practical Application and Case Studies

Apply what you learn through practical exercises and detailed case studies that illustrate successful FBT scenarios.

Continuous Professional Support and Development

Participate in ongoing professional development through live sessions that foster a deeper understanding and refinement of your FBT skills.

Weight inclusive approach

This course is presented from a weight inclusive approach so that you can practice within your values.

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Revitalize your approach to adolescent eating disorder treatment with our innovative FBT-Informed Course, designed to deepen your impact and broaden your therapeutic reach.

This course directly addresses the challenges dietitians face when working with adolescents with eating disorders.

It offers in-depth training on engaging families effectively, understanding complex family dynamics, and mastering specialized treatment strategies to make a real difference in young clients’ lives.

What Students Are Saying

  • Best investment I have made

    I am fascinated with the depth with which the different contents of the FBT course have been addressed. I had the opportunity to take both versions, and they have been incredibly valuable. They have reinforced and expanded my knowledge, providing me with a solid foundation of confidence to work with the most challenging cases, including the sensitive issue of weight stigma that exists among professionals and families. Becoming a member of EDRD Pro is the best investment I have made.
    Beatriz Verdi, Registered Dietitian, Master’s in Psychology
    Dietitian

  • Extraordinary!

    The training has been extraordinarily useful. Katie’s sessions specifically are amazing. She generously shares her approach and process in a variety of different treatment team scenarios. As a result, I have directly been able to apply the principles and style in my own clinical practice, which has greatly enhanced my expertise and skills.
    Ingrid Currington, APD (she/her)
    APD

  • Profound!

    The FBT course has profoundly impacted me. The practical, clear, and considered guidance and experience shared by the presenting team will definitely be front of mind as I continue to work with my young clients and their families.
    Louise Perkins, APD, RD
    Dietitian

  • Worth your time

    The FBT course was so helpful. I have fully implemented this into my practice now with amazing results! Kids are recovering quicker, and parents are learning along with them how to treat the ED and maintain recovery. I wish I had known all this info earlier! Definitely worth your time to learn FBT!
    Julie Knopp, RD, CEDRD, CISSN
    Dietitian

  • This course is invaluable!

    This course is invaluable for building up confidence and skills in working with adolescents and families in the eating disorder space. It covers such a wide range of topics and provides great resources. I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in utilizing an FBT approach!
    Claire Dean, MPH, RDN
    Dietitian

  • Outstanding!

    This FBT training was outstanding. It has changed how I work as a dietitian. The education I gained will be invaluable in my work.
    Laurel Hatch, RDN, CD
    Dietitian

  • So helpful!

    I took the EDRD Pro FBT course and thought it was so great! Thank you! I was working in an adolescent PHP program at the time, and now I’m in the outpatient world, working at a private practice, and seeing some adolescents (and some adults) with eating disorders, and the information I have learned from your course has been so helpful!
    Karlie Abrams, RD (she/her)
    Dietitian

Meet Your Instructors

Lead Instructors

Dr. Lauren Muhlheim, Psy.D., FAED, CEDS

Lauren Muhlheim, Psy.D., FAED, CEDS is a psychologist, fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), and certified eating disorder specialist (CEDS) and approved supervisor for the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP).

She directs Eating Disorder Therapy LA in Los Angeles. She provides cognitive-behavioral therapy for adults and family-based treatment (FBT) for adolescents and adheres to Health at Every Size® principles. She is certified in FBT for adolescent eating disorders and is the author of When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder. Dr. Muhlheim has held leadership roles in several professional organizations including the AED, IAEDP LA Chapter, and the Los Angeles County Psychological Association. She is an IAEDP core course instructor. She is passionate about removing the weight bias in evidence-based treatments and training other professionals to deliver such treatments

Katie Grubiak, RDN

Katie Grubiak, RDN graduated from the Coordinated Program in Dietetics at The University of Texas at Austin. She first pursued a career in public health nutrition in San Diego and Los Angeles with a maternal-child focus.

It was in the same underprivileged area of Los Angeles where she was serving nutritionally that she began to combine her passions, teaching dance and guiding families of dancers to public health clinic access at a foundation called everybody dance! which was awarded by First Lady Michelle Obama the National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award. Her involvement in multidisciplinary eating disorder treatment started at the UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Center. Katie developed a unique style of practicing Family Based Treatment that was driven by her collaborations with Dr. Lauren Muhlheim at Eating Disorder Therapy LA. In addition, Katie was the eating disorder dietitian at Optimum Performance Institute in Woodland Hills, California which specializes in DBT-focused mental health residential treatment for young adults. Katie now has her own nutrition and care coordination private practice named NUTRITION ILLUMINATION.

Guest Speakers

Renee D. Rienecke, PhD, FAED

Renee D. Rienecke, PhD, FAED, is a licensed clinical psychologist, Director of Research and Quality Assurance for Galen Hope, research consultant to Eating Recovery Center, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University

DR. Rienecke has over 25 years of experience building and directing eating disorder treatment programs.  Dr. Rienecke has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles, book chapters, and books.  She is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, a member of the Eating Disorders Research Society, a faculty member of the Training Institute for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders, providing consultation to therapists interested in becoming certified to conduct family-based treatment for adolescent eating disorders, and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Eating Disorders and Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention.  Her research interests include the role of expressed emotion in treatment outcome for adolescent anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

Rebecka Peebles, MD

Dr. Peebles is an Associate Professor in the Craig Dalsimer Division of Adolescent Medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania. She is board certified in pediatrics and further specialty certified in adolescent and young adult medicine, and serves as the Director of Medical Research and Quality Innovations in the Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment Program at CHOP, which she co-founded in 2011.

Her clinical and research expertise is in working with young patients from diverse populations with eating disorder behaviors, across the weight spectrum. She has worked exclusively with children, adolescents, and young adults with disordered eating for the past twenty years, and has published some of the seminal literature describing differences between children and adolescents with eating disorders. She has extensive expertise in their medical evaluation and treatment, as well as their bone health, neuroendocrinology, biobehavioral links and pubertal function, and has been funded for her work by the NIH and the American Heart Association. She has also published quality improvement work in patients with eating disorders in a firm commitment to demonstrating that clinical care and protocols are indeed improving outcomes in the patients we serve. Finally, she has recently published findings of CHOP’s rapid scale-up to telehealth visits for eating disorder patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Victoria Schonwald, NZRD

Victoria Schonwald, NZRD is a New Zealand-registered dietitian specialising in nutritional neuroscience and the nutritional rehabilitation of the compromised brain. Based in Christchurch and working through The Eat Clinic, Victoria has spent seven years in a specialist eating disorder private practice, working with individuals, families, and caregivers across the full spectrum of eating disorder presentations.

Victoria’s clinical framework is built on a central argument: that adequate nutrition is the biological precondition for psychological recovery, not an adjunct to it. Her work translates emerging neuroscience, including brain volume changes, neurotransmitter disruption, hormonal consequences, and cognitive impairment under malnutrition, into accessible, non-pathologising language for clinicians, carers, and people in recovery. She is the author of Food Mad: The Nutritional Neuroscience of the Starved Brain, a resource that has been well received by clinicians and families internationally. Victoria is currently developing a practical companion to Food Mad, focused on what recovery eating looks like in practice, alongside clinical tools for assessing neurological readiness for recovery progression.

Victoria is a supporter and voluntary speaker for the NZ Eating Disorders Charitable Society (NZEDCS), the primary eating disorder parent support organisation in New Zealand, where she provides education and support to families navigating eating disorder recovery.

Dr. Shelly Bar,
MD

Throughout the years of battling the eating disorder and beyond, Katie has been a very active peer mentor and advocate for families navigating an eating disorder diagnosis. She has been published multiple times in FEAST (https://www.feast-ed.org/) as well as presented multiple educational sessions on eating disorders for both medical staff and school staff. She lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with her husband of 28 years.

Katie Maki BSN, RN
Parent Advocate

Katie Maki BSN, RN, aka “Mamabear”, is the mother of 3 young adult children. Her middle daughter was diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa at the age of ten in the fall of 2010. She has been in full recovery for many years.

Throughout the years of battling the eating disorder and beyond, Katie has been a very active peer mentor and advocate for families navigating an eating disorder diagnosis. She has been published multiple times in FEAST (https://www.feast-ed.org/) as well as presented multiple educational sessions on eating disorders for both medical staff and school staff. She lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with her husband of 28 years.

Sarah Torres,
RDN

Sarah Torres is a Registered Dietitian with over a decade of experience helping individuals and families through meaningful and personalized nutrition care. She earned her undergraduate degree in Nutrition and Foods from Texas State University -San Marcos and went on to complete her Dietetic Internship and Master’s degree in Nutrition and Health Promotion at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts.

Throughout her career, Sarah has worked with clients across the life span in a variety of settings both at inpatient and outpatient levels of care. She has provided expert nutrition counseling in areas including child and adolescent nutrition as well as prevention and management of complex medical conditions. She has specialized training in the treatment of eating disorders and has supported children, adolescents and young adults with a wide variety of diagnoses and backgrounds.  

In the past 2 years, she has played a key role in helping launch the UTHealth Houston Center for Eating Disorders PHP and IOP, where she has led efforts to expand access to evidence-based treatments across her community. She is involved in the ongoing development of a food service and nutrition approach grounded in Family-Based Treatment (FBT), which is an evolving effort to make nutrition rehabilitation more practical and family-centered. Her work is grounded in compassion and a deep respect for each person’s individual needs as well as empowering families to be full partners in recovery.

Course Breakdown

Course Synopsis

Family-Based Treatment (FBT) is one of the most effective approaches for treating adolescent eating disorders, but few dietitians receive dedicated training in how to implement it well. This 20-module, dietitian-specific course closes that gap, covering everything from core FBT principles and the neurobiology of undernourishment to target weight determination, feeding strategies, and supporting families through crisis and higher levels of care. Learn directly from field experts including Renee Rienecke, PhD; Rebecka Peebles, MD; and Sarah Torres, RD. Whether you’re new to FBT or deepening your practice, this course gives you the confidence and tools to become an essential member of the treatment team.

Module Details

MODULE 1:

Working with Adolescents and Eating Disorders

MODULE 2:

Core Components and Implementation of Family-Based Treatment (FBT)

MODULE 3:

Family Based Treatment: Then and Now
Guest Presenter – Renee Rienecke, PhD

MODULE 4:

The Neurobiology of Undernourishment and the Starved Brain
Guest Presenter – Victoria Schonwald

MODULE 5:

Understanding and Applying Family-Based Treatment in Diverse Populations

MODULE 6:

Orienting Families to Family-Based Treatment

MODULE 7:

The Roles of treatment team members, especially the Dietitian, in Family-Based Treatment

MODULE 8:

A Medical Standpoint on Returning Teens to Their Growth Curves
Guest Presenter – Rebecka Peebles, MD

MODULE 9:

Determining Individualized Target Weights Using the 7-Step Method

MODULE 10:

Communicating Goal Weights and Weighing Practices in Family-Based Treatment

MODULE 11:

Feeding Strategies for Dietitians Working with Families in Family-Based Treatment 

MODULE 12:

Empowering Parents to Feed

MODULE 13:

Overcoming Challenges in Family-Based Treatment

MODULE 14:

Behavioral Management Plans in Family-Based Treatment

MODULE 15:

Supporting Families Through Crisis in Family-Based Treatment

MODULE 16:

Expanding Life As Treatment Progresses

MODULE 17:

Bringing Family-Based Treatment to Higher Levels of Care
Guest Presenter – Sarah Torres, RD

MODULE 18:

The Mama Bear Approach to Eating Disorder Recovery
Guest Presenter – Katie Maki

MODULE 19:

Family-Based Treatment for ARFID

MODULE 20:

The Use of Medications to Support Weight Gain
Guest Presenter – Shelly Bar, MD

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The course is accessible to you as soon as you sign up! You will have until September 2029 to complete the course for CE credit.

The course will be available through September 2029. If you do not complete all installments of the payment plan, you will no longer be enrolled in the course, and you will not receive a refund.

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