WHAT DOES A SUCCESSFUL NUTRITION COUNSELING SESSION FEEL LIKE TO YOU?

CONFIDENCE IN YOUR SKILLS
ASSURED YOU DID ENOUGH
LESS OVERWHELMED
WARM AND CONNECTING
IDENTITY-AFFIRMING
ROOTED IN YOUR VALUES

Develop your unique counseling style to provide more compassionate, anti-oppressive care.

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FACT: dietitians aren’t really taught counseling skills.

Instead, we’re taught: See a diagnosis, give a handout, word vomit a rehearsed education spiel, and send the client on their merry way. We weren’t trained to meet people in their humanity, and that’s where we are falling short.

If your formal education was, uh… *lacking* in applicable strategies for navigating overwhelm, stuckness with clients, and uncomfortable situations in session... You are not alone! Most dietetic programs don’t prepare graduates for counseling clients beyond just a few sessions, and even then it’s with the (misleading) understanding that clients will always be ready to create change. Maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who’s heard of Motivational Interviewing, but you aren’t sure how exactly to implement it into sessions.

So what happens when…

Change isn’t easy or accessible?

You’re working with folks of different lived experiences or privilege?

A client has significant trauma or other mental health pieces to consider?

you might…

worry you aren’t making a difference.

fear you’re not doing enough.

lack clarity on how to really connect.

Counseling Skills for Dietitians Who Give a Damn is a comprehensive course for RDs and RDs2Be to gain confidence in your skills and start really making a difference in client sessions.

    THIS TRAINING MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT IF:
     You want to strengthen your trauma-informed, weight-neutral counseling skills
        
You feel stuck when clients don’t appear to be motivated for change

You’re unsure what to say in uncomfortable or emotional moments in session

You feel a sense of being outside your scope if not delivering nutrition education

You’d like to feel more comfortable and confident that you’re providing non-coercive, compassionate care

You want to examine and unpack your own privilege and biases a bit more in order to better serve your community

You leave sessions feeling overwhelmed, panicked, or upset

You crave sessions where your clients lead the way and tell you what they want

You’re just getting started and want to get off on the right foot when you begin seeing clients

You want to dive deeper in your outpatient care or private practice

You have high turnover of clients

You want to enhance or brush up on your skills to counsel clients through change

You worry you’re not doing enough for your clients

You want to build stronger relationships with your clients and have more positive outcomes in the work

You have a basic understanding of systems of oppression and want to dig in deeper

You’re interested in self-paced learning and reflective activities

You're curious about Motivational Interviewing, ACT, CBT, DBT, and others, but aren't sure how they fit into a dietitian's scope of practice (or their limitations + harms)

REVIEWS FROM PARTICIPANTS:

YOU CAN EXPECT TO:

COURSE OUTLINE

Each module includes recordings to lecture-style content,
reflective and interactive activities, resources for additional learning,
copies of slides, closed captioning, and trancripts.

EXAMINING

Lesson 1: Deeper Caring & Listening

Understanding Therapeutic Work
RD Scope of Practice
Conceptualizing Care
Better Listening Skills

Lesson 2: Unpacking Our Biases

Examining Biases in Medical Field, Dietetics, and Beyond
Systems of Oppression Review
Unpacking Personal Biases & Privileges
White Supremacy Culture Within Dietetics & Research
Understanding & Unlearning Expert Mode

BONUS! Supervision: What it is & considerations for practice

SHIFTING

Lesson 1: Minimizing Harm

Understanding Anti-Fat Bias
Understanding Cisheteronormativity
Gender Affirming Care Considerations
Weight Neutral Care Considerations
Reviewing Social Determinants of Health
Understanding Stages of Change
Harm Reduction Considerations

Lesson 2: Nervous System & Trauma

Review of the Human Nervous System
Common Language in Sessions
Distress Tolerance and Regulation Strategies
Building Trust & Creating Relative Safety
Understanding Signs of Trauma
RD Roles and Scope of Practice
Attachment Considerations

BONUS! Initial Session Considerations

PRACTICING

Lesson 1: Healing Modalities

Strengths & Limitations of Therapeutic Modalities
Decolonizing Mental Health Considerations
CBT
DBT
ACT
IFS & Parts Work
RD Application & Scope of Practice
Team Collaboration
Therapeutic Silence
Self Disclosure

Lesson 2: Showing Up

Additional Skill Building Activities & Review
Continuing to Challenge Expert Mode
Challenging Inner Critic
Receiving Feedback

BONUS! Trauma-Informed Terminations

Want a preview of the course and Charlie’s teaching style? Check out the video below.

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Community Conversations

Along with lifetime access to recorded course content, participants will have free access to live, hour-long sessions with Charlie and community members as part of Community Conversations!

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Community Conversations are free, community-driven meetings offered quarterly as a chance for course participants to connect and build community. This is often incredibly challenging work, and these groups are intended to be soft places to land. Participants will have a chance to learn from Charlie and each other. Community Conversations is a closed group offered ONLY to Counseling Course participants.

Upcoming Topics:

Supporting Clients Through Ambivalence | Feb 15, 2024
Regulating Your Nervous System In/Between Sessions | May 23, 2024
TBD | Aug 15, 2024
TBD | Nov 14, 2024

FAQs

Nope! While Charlie works in eating disorder spaces, the aim of this training series is to provide RDs of all disciplines a more comprehensive understanding of what it means to be an effective, compassionate nutrition counselor.
Yes! This course is not pre-approved through CDR for CEUs, but you can still record this as a learning activity. You can select “740 Self Study Web-Based” as the activity type. Course recordings + reflection “homework” + Community Conversations hours include a total of about 13 hours of material.
Yes, but separate courses must be purchased for each user. Charlie offers group rates for 3+ people - please email them for details: MoxieMindRD [at] gmail.com
How’s forever sound? Participants will get lifetime access of the recordings with purchase of the course, and each participant gets access to free Community Conversation sessions with purchase.
Please note that this course is provided for single users only when purchasing online. If you are a group looking to purchase for multiple users, please reach out to learn about group pricing options.
All sales are final, there will be no refunds, returns nor exchanges on purchases.
You can read the other terms and conditions here.
There are closed captioning and transcripts provided for all videos, along with PDF copies of slides and handouts. This course is currently only available in English.
This course is pre-recorded, with additional opportunities to reflect, journal, and practice skills. The Community Conversations sessions are another way for you to connect and apply your skills in real-time with other providers who give a damn.
No, but it will be most applicable to dietitians. Other types of clinicians are welcome to join!

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MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Hi, I’m Charlie! I use they/them pronouns and run a solo private practice in Denver, Colorado. I’m thrilled that you’re considering this training with me! I’m passionate about creating relationships and therapeutic bonds that are rooted in harm reduction and compassionate care - and it seems you are too!

I have been a registered dietitian since 2015, and I’ve been working in the eating disorder field since 2018. I’m incredibly ethics-focused, and my mission in both work and personal life is to support and uplift folx of marginalized identities without too much of my own privilege getting in the way. I take an intersectional, therapeutic, social justice-oriented approach. I like cuss words, authenticity, and owning sh*t even when it’s really, incredibly uncomfortable. While I can never claim to be an expert on any lived experience but my own, I frequently work within the “specialties” of LGBTQ+ affirming, weight neutral, trauma informed, eating disorder care. I deeply value my relationships and the interconnectedness of us all, and I hope this training fosters a deeper connection with yourself and the clients who are lucky to have you. Are you ready to show up?

ENROLLMENT OPEN

While Charlie makes every effort to provide equitable education opportunities, they realize it might still not be financially feasible to purchase this course. If this is the case for you, please know that scholarships are available. Please email Charlie at MoxieMindRD [at] gmail.com to inquire.

Group rates available!
Group practice owners and other team managers can email Charlie for additional information.

Please note that electronic/digital goods are now required to be taxed in some states. Sales tax will be calculated at checkout. We apologize for any additional cost this adds.