Nutrition Counseling Course Group Supervision with Annyck Besso

This monthly study group is open to those registered for our Empower Your Practice: Advanced Nutrition Counseling For Dietitians Through a Relational Lens Course. Join us for support and to learn more about working with and counseling individual clients. Remember to register in advance!

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Annyck Besso, DtP, RD, MSc (She/Elle) Bio:

Annyck Besso is a registered dietitian who has been working with individuals with eating disorders and disordered eating for the last decade. Annyck is also the founder of Sööma, a multidisciplinary private practice in Montreal Canada and the United States.  Annyck is originally from Montreal, Canada, where she worked at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute on the pediatric eating disorder inpatient unit after finishing her masters. She then had the opportunity to work in private practice in Washington, DC for three years. Annyck founded Sööma in 2020, with a vision to provide inclusive, collaborative and client-centered care to individuals of all ages. Annyck manages a team of registered dietitians and psychologists who specialize in treating athletes, adolescents, and adults who experience disordered eating, under-fueling, and eating disorders.  Annyck has always valued and believed that understanding an individual’s experience with food and their body, being curious about their story, and understanding the emotional and psychological barriers to change were the keys to long-standing recovery, whatever that looks like for each individual. Throughout her career, Annyck has received specialty training in evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Family Based Treatment (FBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), which are used heavily throughout her nutrition interventions. Annyck’s clientele consists mainly of severe and enduring anorexia cases, adolescents and their families receiving Family Based Treatment, and athletes wanting to perform in their sports but being limited due to disordered eating behaviors. Annyck strongly believes in a harm reduction approach, where a client is free to choose whether recovery feels possible or accessible. By offering a trauma-informed space, Annyck sees each individual as having the capacity to choose what is best and most accessible to them at any time in their treatment.  Wanting to contribute to training and education on the role of the dietitian in the treatment of eating disorders, Annyck has invested time in sharing her knowledge and experience with students and other professionals. She feels passionate about accompanying dietitians in using various therapeutic approaches in their nutrition counseling to provide care that is centered around the client’s experience. Annyck became a McGill Affiliate Member in 2020 and feels honored to be able to change the way eating disorder care is taught at McGill University through her guest lecturing. Annyck has also had the opportunity to offer various presentations through EDRD Pro to assist dietitians in feeling confident about delving deeper into their nutrition work with clients. Beyond teaching and training, Annyck offers supervision to dietitians throughout Canada and the United States where she provides an opportunity for dietitians to reflect on their experience with various cases, barriers that may show up preventing them from being curious, and personal and professional development to dietitians at any point in their career.  Beyond any specific nutrition intervention, Annyck strongly believes in providing client-centered care, seeing past an individual’s diagnosis, and understanding how their eating disorder once protected them and how it currently serves them. In her work, she creatively adapts to circumstances and the client’s experiences to offer a nutrition approach that is individualized, trauma-informed, and evidence-based.