Not All Eating Disorders Look Alike: Working with ARFID

Eating problems come in many forms across all ages and situations. Expanding your ability to assess and treat these variations opens new opportunities to work with parents, younger children, and a broader range of clients.

This workshop provides an overview of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), including assessment strategies and evidence-based interventions, with a focus on exposure exercises and relapse prevention techniques.

Participants will gain practical assessment skills, treatment strategies, and clinical confidence through lecture, case discussion, and real-world examples.

Key Learning Objectives:

• How to identify and assess variations of eating problems
• Important co-occurring medical issues to consider during treatment planning
• Practical interventions through detailed case studies from assessment to outcome

By the end of this workshop, you’ll have practical tools, deeper insight, and greater confidence to expand your scope of practice when working with eating disorders.

What Past Participants Say:

“The presenter seemed to have a great deal of knowledge and used her years of experience to exemplify theory and actuality.”

“The Q&A was excellent.”

“Course was helpful to understand interventions for ARFID.”

“I learned a lot.”

About the Presenter

Donna Fish is a Level 4 TEAM CBT Therapist and Trainer based in New York City, where she maintains a private practice while consulting and teaching internationally.

She has served as faculty member or guest lecturer at Columbia University, Harvard Medical School Continuing Education, New York University, and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy’s Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia (CSAB).

Following publication of her book Take the Fight out of Food, Donna presented workshops throughout the United States and Canada, hosted a WebMD series on Living Well with Depression, and served as keynote speaker for the Minnesota School Board Annual Convention.

Her work has been featured on multiple television networks, and she has written extensively for The Huffington Post and Psychology Today.

Donna has also appeared with Fareed Zakaria on the podcast Go Ask Ali: Our New World Inside and Out and on the David Burns Feeling Good Podcast discussing eating disorders.

Most recently, she presented at the TEAM CBT European Conference in Poland and a Latin American conference in Mexico City. She continues to train therapists worldwide in eating disorder treatment.

Before becoming a therapist, Donna enjoyed a ten-year career as a professional dancer. She now consults with The School of American Ballet, The Juilliard School, and NYU’s Dance Department, where she teaches Mental Fitness: How to Survive and Thrive in the Dance World.

Pricing

$85 – General Admission

$70- ICP Community

$45 – ICP Therapist

$25 – ICP Candidate/ Undergraduate Student/Graduate Student