Deepening Trauma-Informed Care Skills for Dietitians
February 10, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am PST
| Too often, trauma-informed care is watered down and lost in clinical jargon and maneuvering, pulling us away from what is most needed: relationship. This webinar will give people practical tools as well as conceptual framing for why we need to focus more on compassion, safety, and deep listening (even when we are scared for a person’s safety) when we are working with patients who have experienced severe traumas, though these tools will work on everyone we work with, and ourselves. |
Learning Objectives:
Following this presentation, participants will:
- Understand the core components of creating a safe environment for folks who live with PTSD, CPTSD.
- Name 2 strategies that providers can utilize to support creating a safe container for these patients.
- Explain how “the righting reflex” that arises within us when we are scared actually pulls us away from creating safety for our clients.
Level B: Skills and Application
At this level, learners move beyond theory to actively apply knowledge in practical settings. Emphasis is on developing proficiency, problem-solving, and hands-on skills that can be implemented in real-world scenarios. Ideal for practitioners looking to strengthen their capabilities.
Virginia Newman Bio:
Virginia Newman is the owner of her practice the Radical Dietitian based out of Seattle, WA, where she virtually provides eating disorder care for queer, disabled, low-income, and fat communities. She has her masters in nutrition and dietetics and an undergraduate degree in sociology, and is a certified body specialist through the Center for Body Trust. Passionate about healing, Virginia melds her personal experiences of neurodivergence, survivorship, and recovery from orthorexia, in combination with a strong clinical background and understanding of systemic factors in healing and health as a means to support clients in understanding and gaining agency with their own stories. She supports clinicians and clinicians in training in understanding anti-fatness, trauma, and neurodivergence and provides them with the tools to provide safer containers for care within their practices. She authored the chapter on Orthorexia in Springer’s 2020 Adolescent Nutrition. Because this work has such a heartbreaking component to it, Virginia fills her heart in her free time with gardening, crafting, dancing, snuggles with Bug and Filius (her cats), cooking delicious food, and going on adventures with her partner.
