The Modern Therapist's Survival Guide with Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy Navigating the Food and Eating Minefield
An interview with Robyn Goldberg, RDN, CEDRD, on what all therapists should know about nutrition, disordered eating, and eating disorders, as well as their own biases and relationship with food
It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. We are human beings who can now present ourselves as whole people, with authenticity, purpose, and connection. Especially now, when therapists must develop a personal brand to market their practices.
To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.
Interview with Robyn Goldberg, RDN, CEDRD
Robyn L. Goldberg, RDN, CEDRD, began her career at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles as the in-patient dietitian in the Department of Cardiology. Over the last 21 years she has developed her own private practice in Beverly Hills, CA, where she specializes in medical conditions, disordered eating, eating disorders, Health at Every Size, intuitive eating and pre-pregnancy nutrition. Robyn promotes opportunity to excel in developing a new perspective with food in association with several medical groups. She serves as a Nutrition Consultant for the Celiac Disease Foundation. For the last eight years Robyn was the Nutritional Therapist for the Susan Krevoy Eating Disorders Program at Wright Institute Los Angeles was a consultant for Panda Restaurant Group and teaches the nutrition classes for the Motion Picture Wellness Program. Currently Robyn is the Director of Nutrition Service for The Control Center, an addiction IOP, where she sees all the eating disorder patients. She is a contributing author and is a nationally known registered dietitian nutritionist. She has been quoted in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Fix, Shape Magazine, Fitness, Oxygen, Pilates Style, Diabetes Forecast, BH Weekly and Life & Style. She has been on national television as the eating disorder expert on The Insider. Robyn has a body image and eating disorder group at several addiction centers in Los Angeles.
Learn more about Robyn at www.askaboutfood.com.
In this episode we talk about:
- Diet Culture
- HAES: Health at Every Size
- Food freedom
- Collaboration between therapists and dietitians
- Treating eating disorders and disordered eating
- What to look for in the intake process
- Looking at your own belief system and bias around “fat” and “thin”
- Why you can't make assumptions about your clients based on what they look like
- When to worry about eating patterns of your clients
- Orthorexia, Anorexia, Bulimia, Restricting, Binging
- Moving away from the idea that there is a “right weight”
- What therapists often miss related to eating
- How to find experts who work with Eating Disorders (what the qualifications are, what the dangers are when you work outside of your scope)
- Who needs to be on the team to treating EDs.
- Medical considerations and labs to request
- How little most people know about how to screen for eating disorders
- The differences between Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Licensed Dietitians, Nutritionists, Health Coaches
Resources mentioned:
We’ve pulled together any resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links.
Robyn’s Website: www.askaboutfood.com
Instagram: RobynGoldbergRDN
Academy of Eating Disorders: www.aedweb.org
International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals: IAEDP
Certifications for Eating Disorder Specialties (CEDRD, CEDS, etc.)
Certification in Intuitive Eating
Relevant MTSG Podcast Episodes:
Are You Sure You’re a Specialist
Our Next Event:
The Therapy Reimagined Conference in Los Angeles in October 2018!!
Credits:
Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/
Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano http://www.crystalmangano.com/