with
Maria Gambino, LMHC
Friday, May 1, 2026
12pm-2pm
Virtual on Zoom
2 NYS CE Credits
The Clinical Challenge
Working with eating disorders often feels like a tug-of-war. You provide the best evidence-based care, but the progress stalls once the client returns to their home environment.
Does this sound familiar?
Your client makes strides in session, only to be activated back into old patterns by family dynamics.
Parents are desperate to help but are inadvertently operating from their own dysregulated nervous systems.
The "missing link" in treatment feels like it’s buried in unconscious parental patterns or historical emotional misattunement.
To truly sustain recovery, we must move beyond the individual and address the relational biology of the family. This workshop goes beneath the surface of behavioral interventions to explore the neurobiology of the family unit.
Pricing
- General Admission: $85
- ICP Community: $70
- Current ICP Therapist: $45
- Current ICP Candidate or Graduate/Undergraduate Student: $25
ICP Community includes current ICP faculty, supervisors, and alumni of ICP's training programs.
Please note that for alumni to qualify for this rate, you must have graduated within 5 years.
If the cost of this event presents a financial barrier, please contact us at
CSAB@icpnyc.org. We are happy to offer a reduced rate when needed to ensure accessibility.
What You'll Learn
Through a blend of didactic lecture and deep-dive case studies, you will learn to:
- Identify Maintenance Patterns: Pinpoint specific family-based nervous system signatures that unintentionally keep ED symptoms "locked" in place.
- Analyze the Regulation Gap: Understand how parental misattunement affects a client's recovery trajectory and neurobiological safety.
- Facilitate Developmental Repair: Apply conscious parenting strategies that transform caregivers from "anxious observers" into a "stabilizing force" for emotional maturation.
Presenters
Maria Gambino, LMHC is a licensed psychotherapist in NY and CT specializing in eating disorders, family systems, and developmental trauma. With over a decade of clinical experience, her work focuses on the role of emotional development, nervous-system regulation, and parental attunement in recovery. She is known for integrating depth psychology, attachment-informed practice, and conscious parenting principles to support both individuals and families in sustainable healing.
Continuing Education Credits
- An important note about CEs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers,
mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, creative arts therapists, psychologists and psychoanalysts
through the New York Department of Education.
If your license is from a different state, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State.
If your license is from another state, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis, ie 54321 (CA).
- CE certificates will be emailed to you. We kindly ask for your patience, as we’re a small team.
Policies
- Refund Policy: Please note that refunds for all ICP workshops are available up until one week before the start of the workshop or module. Fees assessed by third-party ticketing or payment processors are outside of our control and cannot be refunded. We are unable to issue refunds for technical difficulties, including platform issues, internet connectivity, or device-related problems.
- Attendance: To receive NYS CE Credits, you must attend all session(s) in full. Partial credit, makeups, or late arrivals/early departures are not permitted under New York State regulations. CE credits cannot be awarded for viewing recordings of the workshop.
- Photography and Video Recording Notice: By attending this event, you consent to photography, audio recording, and video recording that may be used for promotional purposes, including in publications, on websites, and on social media platforms.
FAQ
Will a recording be available? The recording of workshops is subject to the discretion of ICP and the individual speaker. While clinical material is de-identified, out of an abundance of caution regarding confidentiality and to encourage open discussion, recordings are not guaranteed and may not always be available. Please also note that if you are seeking Continuing Education (CE) credits for a workshop, you must attend the session live and be present for the entire duration. CE credits cannot be awarded for viewing recordings of the workshop.
How do I receive my CE certificate?
- CE certificates will be emailed to you in approximately 2–3 weeks. We kindly ask for your patience, as we’re a small team, and responding to repeated inquiries about information already shared adds to our administrative workload. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation. The email will come from CE@icpnyc.org
Questions? Email CSAB@icpnyc.org
