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Essential Workbook for All Dietitians

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This workbook was created for the moments when your sessions feel heavy, confusing, or stuck—and you’re not sure which way to move next. Designed specifically for dietitians working in eating disorder care, it offers a structured yet compassionate way to reflect on what may be happening beneath the surface of your client work. Rather than providing rigid formulas, this workbook helps you deepen clinical insight, reconnect with curiosity and confidence, and approach stuckness with greater clarity and emotional steadiness. The result is not only stronger sessions—but a greater sense of support, sustainability, and trust in your clinical voice.

Inside this workbook, you’ll be supported to:

Understand what “stuck” may be signalling in the therapeutic relationship
Differentiate between client readiness, ambivalence, and your own emotional responses
Reduce self-doubt and the pressure to “get it right”
Strengthen attunement, presence, and clinical confidence
Feel more grounded in complex, emotionally charged sessions
Move forward with greater clarity, not urgency

Videos on Demand

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Top 3 Things ALL Dietitians Need to Know about Race, Religion and Eating Disorders

with Brianna Theus, RD

Book cover titled "Ozempic - The Role of the Dietitian" with an illustration of four diverse people engaged in conversation, speech bubbles around them, and the author's name, Shawna Melbourn, RD, CEDS-S, at the bottom.

Open Discussion: Ozempic and our role as HAES-aligned, eating disorder/disordered eating Registered Dietitians

In this open discussion that was held on May 9th, dietitians from around the world discussed our role when it comes to the use of Ozempic. This was a FABULOUS talk, and definitely well worth watching!!!

Downloadable Guides

How to Grow your Eating Disorder Assessment Skills

A step-by-step guide to level up your assessment skills in eating disorder support and care.

Nutrition Rehabilitation Principles for Eating Disorder Support and Care

Nutrition rehabilitation principles to share with your clients and colleagues. This guide adds an essence of simplification to the sometimes complicated and nuanced eating disorder recovery journey.

Book cover titled "A Dietitian's Guide" with a colorful abstract illustration of plant-like shapes. Subtitle "Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder" and author "Shawna Melbourn, RD, CEDS-S, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor".

A professional woman consulting with a client during a session, with text overlay about dietitians and eating disorders.

Cover page of a guide titled "Top 20 Questions to ask your client if you suspect an eating disorder" featuring a group of five diverse women holding hands and smiling outdoors in a natural setting.

Cover page of a guide titled '8 Principles: Nutrition Rehabilitation Principles for Eating Disorder Support and Care' by Shawna Melbourn, RD, CEDRD-S, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, featuring a large pink number 8 and a minimalist outline of a person holding a heart.

ARFID: A Dietitian’s Guide to Supporting without Pressuring

A helpful document that outlines how to support your client compassionately, without pressuring.

Should you see this client (or not)

In this guide, Shawna runs through important considerations for all dietitians when they are struggling with the decision to either begin or continue care in the community, with a client living with an eating disorder.