Hybrid Event - Somatic Approaches to Eating Disorders

with Anastasia Nevin MS, RDN, CEDRD-C, SEP 

Join us for an immersive and experiential workshop that explores the powerful role somatic practices play in healing from eating disorders. Facilitated by Anastasia Nevins, whose approach is rooted in intuitive eating and a holistic, compassionate understanding of recovery, this session prioritizes coming home to the body and soul through somatic and yoga-inspired practices.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the Importance of Somatic Approaches: Learn how reconnecting with the body can promote healing from disordered eating patterns and trauma.
• Observe Nervous System States in Real Time: Identify how trauma impacts our nervous system and affects our ability to eat and nourish ourselves.
• Mindfulness and Self-Awareness for Embodiment: Explore techniques for fostering mindfulness, self-awareness, and body connection in yourself and your clients.
• Utilize Somatic Practices in Client Sessions: Gain practical tools for integrating somatic approaches during therapy to support clients in their healing journey.

This workshop emphasizes experiential learning, with opportunities for lecture, discussion, meditation, and gentle movement. Participants will be invited to engage deeply with these practices, observe their impact on their own body, and learn how to better support their clients’ recovery using trauma-informed, body-centered techniques.

About the Presenter: 

Anastasia Nevin MS, RDN, CEDRD-C, SEP (she/her) is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian, Clinical Supervisor, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Yoga Instructor who specializes in the relationship between body, food, and trauma.

Anastasia’s approach is rooted in a non-diet, weight inclusive, holistic & compassionate understanding of recovery which incorporates the body into healing. She helps clients (re)learn how to nourish themselves physically and spiritually.

Anastasia offers nutrition therapy and somatic sessions that support healing from disordered eating and trauma. She uses her warmth as well as her own recovery from an eating disorder to lovingly challenge and empower clients to heal their own relationship to food, while finding safety and regulation in their body and nervous system.

Anastasia graduated from Stanford University with Honors in Psychology.  She went on to complete her Masters in Nutrition Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Anastasia has worked at both partial hospitalization and day treatment levels of care within eating disorder treatment program settings in NYC, and was Monte Nido’s Manhattan’s first Lead Dietitian and Yoga Therapist. She has had a thriving private practice for over a decade.

Anastasia received her yoga training at her beloved home studio Laughing Lotus where she taught dynamic, musical vinyasa flow classes for many years. She has studied Ayurveda (India's ancient holistic medicine system), Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Chakras and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy and loves bringing these mind-body-energy practices into an integrative, trauma-informed, therapeutic treatment model.

In 2022, Anastasia completed the three year certification program to become an SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner). Somatic Experiencing Trauma Therapy is a body-based, naturalistic approach to healing trauma founded by Dr. Peter Levine. Anastasia is particularly interested in the areas of chronic pain/chronic illness, sexual trauma, and trans/inter-generational trauma. She is honored to be an assistant for ongoing SE trainings.

Anastasia is the founder of Anastasia Health, and is a member of IAEDP New York Chapter (International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals) and IFEDD (International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians). She is a first generation American and mother of two young daughters.

For any questions, including those about accessibility or to request accommodations, please contact Cara at Csab@icpnyc.org

An important note about CEUs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, 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).

Continuing Education Information

 NYS Continuing Education Information

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts.

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the NYS Education Department State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education credit for licensed social workers.

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors.

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists.

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists.

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists.