Introduction to Trauma-informed and Attachment Based Eating Disorder Treatment
The Introduction to Trauma-informed and Attachment Based Eating Disorder Treatment on-line training is offered several times a year. Each training cohort will be organized into sub-cohorts of 6-12 people during virtual Q and A sessions to allow for individualized and experiential exploration of questions about course content. The Introduction to Introduction to Trauma-informed and Attachment Based Eating Disorder Treatment is A live introductory webinar. During this time, you will get a chance to meet your instructors and fellow cohort members. Your instructors will orient you to the asynchronous/on-demand course platform, give you instructions for submitting questions prior to the Q and A sessions and answer questions you have about navigating the class.
Asynchronous/on-demand course. You will have at total of 4 months access to approximately 13 hours of online class content. Access begins directly following the introductory webinar. PLEASE NOTE: The first 3 months of access are supported by Q and A groups described below. We strongly encourage that you complete the course by the 3rd month. The extra month access is designed to support review of the material as you begin to integrate Trauma-informed and Attachment Based Eating Disorder Treatment on-line training into your work with clients. This class combines video lectures, slide-show presentations, guided experiential activities and journal prompts to facilitate and embodied learning experience.
Presenter Bios:
Rachel Lewis-Marlow, MS, EDS, LCMHC, LMBT
RACHEL (she/her) is a somatically integrative psychotherapist, dually licensed in counseling and therapeutic massage and bodywork. She is a Certified Advanced Practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and has advanced training and 25 + years of experience in diverse somatic therapies including Craniosacral Therapy, Energetic Osteopathy, Oncology massage and Aromatherapy.
Rachel began her work with eating disorders in Residential, PHP and IOP treatment programs. There she developed the Embodying Recovery group therapy protocol which forms the basis for the Introduction to Trauma-informed and Attachment Based Eating Disorder Treatment treatment model. She provided program development, training and supervision for the implementation of the Trauma-informed and Attachment Based Eating Disorder Treatment on-line training model to enhance the effectiveness of current best practices, such as DBT, Interpersonal Process, ACT groups. She also developed the Body Wisdom group protocol, an alternative to the traditional body-image group, which focuses on enhancing the mind-body relationship through mindful experience of and through the body.
She has extensive experience as a teacher and presenter, focusing on accessing the body’s unique capacity to give voice to the subconscious and to lay the foundation for healing and maintaining psychological and physical health. In her private practice in Chapel Hill, NC, Rachel specializes in working with people exploring recovery from trauma, eating disorders, and dissociative disorders.
Paula Scataloni, LCSW, CEDS, SEP
PAULA (she/her) is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Certified Safe and Sound Protocol Provider, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Durham, NC. She combines her intuitive wisdom with an in-depth understanding of interpersonal neurobiology, traumatology, and conscious embodiment practices to bridge the gap between modern and ancient methods of transformative growth. With over two decades of experience, Paula has led clinical teams at Duke University and has collaborated to develop projects such as The Embodied Recovery Institute and a well-known outpatient treatment center in Hawaii.
She currently serves as a consultant for Integrative Listening Systems/Unyte to support innovative training methods for Safe and Sound Protocol. In her role as a therapist, educator, and workshop facilitator, she brings her creativity and deep respect for the collective archetypes that are part of a universal embodied consciousness. She believes that embodiment is a journey of returning to wholeness and our authentic expression of ourselves. And that our emotions, relational templates, body narrative, and energy systems hold the embodied consciousness of our personal, intergenerational, and collective wounding as well as our innate capacity for resilience.
Paula offers Safe and Sound Protocol experiential groups for the Embodied Recovery Institute
Timeline: Anytime, Online
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe eating disorder behaviors and recovery through the lens of neurological regulation, Polyvagal Theory, and the Window of Tolerance.
- Explain the role of bottom-up processing and the impact of trauma on neurological regulation necessary for normative eating and eating disorders recovery.
- Identify three skills to increase therapist’s capacity to offer corrective co-regulating experiences.
- Identify 3 body-based interventions to increase neurological regulation needed to support normative eating.
- Explain the link between Sensory Processing Disorder and eating disorders.
- Explain the physiological connection between attachment, trauma, sensory processing and digestion.
- Explain how healthy attachment supports capacity for effective action and normative eating.
This course content is based on a publication that has been peer-reviewed, the scientific standard for evaluating academic work. All studies and scientifically derived evidence have limitations that should be considered. If you have any questions about the accuracy or limitations of the content, please contact us at
support@ce-classes.com and we will get back to you.
