DECIDE: A 5-Step Clinical Framework for Recognising
and Responding to Disordered Eating
Helping you recognise, respond to, and safely navigate
clients experiencing disordered eating
in everyday clinical practice.
15+ CPD hours of blended practitioner training combining evidence-based clinical frameworks, practical tools, case discussions, and ongoing mentoring to help you confidently recognise and respond to disordered eating in natural health practice.
Grounded in trauma-informed, earth-centred and anti-oppressive care.
You don't need to become an eating disorder specialist.
You do need to know when disordered eating may be influencing the client sitting in front of you.
Most naturopaths, herbalists and nutritionists will encounter disordered eating in practice…
often without realising it.
When gut symptoms, hormonal disruption, fatigue, or “clean eating” behaviours show up in clinic, it can be difficult to tell whether you’re working with a primary condition…
or a body under stress from chronic restriction.
Without training in this area, even well-intentioned protocols can unintentionally reinforce harm.
DECIDE teaches you how to recognise those moments - and respond safely, ethically, and within scope.
and Responding to Disordered Eating
Helping you recognise, respond to, and safely navigate
clients experiencing disordered eating
in everyday clinical practice.
15+ CPD hours of blended practitioner training combining evidence-based clinical frameworks, practical tools, case discussions, and ongoing mentoring to help you confidently recognise and respond to disordered eating in natural health practice.
Grounded in trauma-informed, earth-centred and anti-oppressive care.
You don't need to become an eating disorder specialist.
You do need to know when disordered eating may be influencing the client sitting in front of you.
Most naturopaths, herbalists and nutritionists will encounter disordered eating in practice…
often without realising it.
When gut symptoms, hormonal disruption, fatigue, or “clean eating” behaviours show up in clinic, it can be difficult to tell whether you’re working with a primary condition…
or a body under stress from chronic restriction.
Without training in this area, even well-intentioned protocols can unintentionally reinforce harm.
DECIDE teaches you how to recognise those moments - and respond safely, ethically, and within scope.
What Participants Are Saying
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I have less uncertainty when I sense disordered eating in clients.
— Bree McLaren, Nutritionist
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I have less uncertainty when I sense disordered eating in clients.
— Bree McLaren, Nutritionist
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Next intake: 7 October 2026 (Spring cohort)
Blended 8-week practitioner training
Wednesdays 6:30-8:00pm AEST | Limited places
Includes 6 monthly group Q&A calls (60 min) following the training to support integration into clinical practice.
Applications are now open.
Each week includes pre-recorded teaching, reflection prompts, and a live 90-minute integration call focused on case discussion, Q&A, and applying the DECIDE framework in practice.
How it works each week:
• Thursday - new module, lessons, resources and preparation prompts released
• Throughout the week - work through the content at your own pace and note questions for discussion
• Wednesday - live 90-minute integration call focused on case discussion, application and Q&A
Questions can be submitted ahead of time and woven into the session.
Blended 8-week practitioner training
Wednesdays 6:30-8:00pm AEST | Limited places
Includes 6 monthly group Q&A calls (60 min) following the training to support integration into clinical practice.
Applications are now open.
Each week includes pre-recorded teaching, reflection prompts, and a live 90-minute integration call focused on case discussion, Q&A, and applying the DECIDE framework in practice.
How it works each week:
• Thursday - new module, lessons, resources and preparation prompts released
• Throughout the week - work through the content at your own pace and note questions for discussion
• Wednesday - live 90-minute integration call focused on case discussion, application and Q&A
Questions can be submitted ahead of time and woven into the session.
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Created by Casey Conroy - naturopath, dietitian, Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician, and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor - this course blends nutritional science and counselling skills with an understanding of the social and cultural forces that shape our relationship with food and body.
It’s an evidence-based, weight-neutral, and non-diet program that moves beyond symptom management to explore the deeper roots of disordered eating: trauma, disconnection, diet culture, and the lingering impact of colonial and patriarchal health narratives. This training draws from weight-inclusive and non-diet frameworks and translates them into practical, scope-safe tools for naturopaths, herbalists and nutritionists. DECIDE does not train practitioners to treat eating disorders. Rather, it is a clinical literacy training designed to help natural health practitioners recognise risk, reduce harm, and collaborate safely within stepped-care frameworks. |
Photo by Emelia Ebejer @mimi.littlewild
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🌾 Earth-Centred Approach
At its heart, DECIDE reclaims the original meaning of holistic care - one that recognises the body as part of a living ecosystem. This course invites practitioners to return to the foundations of naturopathic philosophy: connection over control, curiosity over correction, and care that honours both human and more-than-human worlds. This training is earth-centred, informed by decolonial and trauma-aware understandings of how our food and body stories are woven with land, lineage, and belonging. This philosophical foundation is paired with structured clinical tools, case studies, and practical resources designed for real-world application. Healing the body is inseparable from context - including culture, community, and land. |
Join the July Winter cohort and learn to recognise, stabilise, and support your clients through an earth-centred, trauma-informed, and ethically grounded naturopathic lens.
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What Practitioners Will Learn
Most practitioners were never trained to recognise disordered eating unless it presents as a formal eating disorder. More often, it appears disguised within common naturopathic presentations: digestive complaints, hormonal issues, fatigue, or mental health concerns. This training teaches practitioners how to recognise when disordered eating may be influencing clinical presentations, and how to respond safely within naturopathic scope. |
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What Participants Are Saying
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I don’t instantly go down all the rabbit holes like candida overgrowth or gut testing, especially when a person tells me they have large gaps of time without food regularly.
— Amhran, Naturopath
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Recognise Disordered Eating Hidden Within Common PresentationsYou’ll learn how disordered eating patterns commonly show up within conditions frequently seen in nutrition and naturopathic practice, including:
Digestive health
Hormonal and reproductive health
Mental health and neurodivergence
You’ll learn how to distinguish primary pathology from eating-pattern driven symptoms, and when nutrition stabilisation must come before optimisation protocols. Learn the framework - Then apply it live
Each week, you’ll work through pre-recorded lessons before the live session, so our time together can focus on clinical application.
During the weekly live calls we’ll explore realistic naturopathic case studies, practitioner questions, and the messy grey areas that come up when disordered eating intersects with gut symptoms, hormones, fatigue, neurodivergence, chronic dieting, GLP-1 use, and metabolic concerns. Participants will practise applying the DECIDE framework to real-world clinical scenarios, with space for reflection, discussion and scope-safe decision-making. |
Understand Common Eating Disorder PresentationsYou will also develop clinical literacy in recognising disordered eating presentations including:
The goal is not to train you to treat eating disorders, but to recognise risk early and support clients safely within stepped-care frameworks. Practise Within a Clear Clinical FrameworkParticipants will learn to:
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What Participants Are Saying
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It’s very digestible. The content is enough to feel resourced to start implementing some of the frameworks and perspective shifts, without feeling overwhelmed.
I have been using the RAVES framework and speaking to clients more clearly about adequacy as the foundation for everything.
— Bree McLaren, Nutritionist
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It’s very digestible. The content is enough to feel resourced to start implementing some of the frameworks and perspective shifts, without feeling overwhelmed.
I have been using the RAVES framework and speaking to clients more clearly about adequacy as the foundation for everything.
— Bree McLaren, Nutritionist
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What Practitioners Are Saying
“This is absolutely essential knowledge for all health practitioners in today’s wacky wellness world. Despite heavy themes, Casey teaches with a compassion and lightness that allows for self-reflection, client-reflection and professional development that is really grounded, approachable and empowering.”
— Bree McLaren, Nutritionist
“I feel so much more confident that I am making the right decisions. I now have the confidence and language to explain why going slow and focusing on adequacy first is important.”
— Hannah, Herbalist
Ongoing Support & Integration
Learning this work doesn’t happen in one pass. After the 8-week blended training, you’ll be supported with 6 x 60 min monthly group Q&A calls where you can:
These sessions are designed to help you move from understanding → application → confidence over time.
- bring real client cases and questions
- refine your clinical decision-making
- get guidance on tricky scope or ethical situations
- continue integrating the DECIDE framework into practice
These sessions are designed to help you move from understanding → application → confidence over time.
About Your Teacher
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Casey Conroy is a naturopath, Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD), and Certified Eating Disorder Clinician (CEDC-D), with over a decade of clinical experience. She has previously lectured and supervised students in clinic at Endeavour College of Natural Health.
DECIDE: Scope-Safe Disordered Eating Practice emerges from years of work at the meeting point of nutritional science, eating disorder medicine, and trauma-informed care. Casey integrates principles of Intuitive Eating and weight-inclusive care into her clinical and educational work. |
Photo by Emelia Ebejer @mimi.littlewild
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Of mixed-race heritage, Casey’s personal and professional journey is shaped by questions of belonging: to body, culture, and land. Her own recovery from an eating disorder, and her reconnection to both ancestral food traditions and Australian soil, deeply inform this course. As a yoga teacher, long-time meditator, and animist, she approaches healing as relational: between nervous system and environment, practitioner and client, body and earth.
What Participants Are Saying
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This training feels like such a needed balm for many of the common wellness tropes that ultimately don’t serve us or our clients. It’s helped me recognise the many nuanced ways disordered eating can show up in clinic, while offering practical and compassionate ways to support clients more safely.
Casey brings such depth of experience, wisdom and integrity to this work, and I genuinely believe this training is essential for any herbalist, naturopath or nutritionist wanting to create safer, more person-centred spaces for their clients.
Honestly, if you work with humans who eat food and have bodies, this training is deeply important.
— Hannah, Herbalist
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This training feels like such a needed balm for many of the common wellness tropes that ultimately don’t serve us or our clients. It’s helped me recognise the many nuanced ways disordered eating can show up in clinic, while offering practical and compassionate ways to support clients more safely.
Casey brings such depth of experience, wisdom and integrity to this work, and I genuinely believe this training is essential for any herbalist, naturopath or nutritionist wanting to create safer, more person-centred spaces for their clients.
Honestly, if you work with humans who eat food and have bodies, this training is deeply important.
— Hannah, Herbalist
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Enrolment
Includes 8 weeks of blended training + 6 months of ongoing clinical support.
Next cohort begins 7 October 2026.
Places are limited and entry is via application.
This training is for naturopaths, herbalists, nutritionists, and natural health students who are ready to move beyond harmful wellness culture narratives and towards truly inclusive, ethical, earth-connected care.
Includes 8 weeks of blended training + 6 months of ongoing clinical support.
Next cohort begins 7 October 2026.
Places are limited and entry is via application.
This training is for naturopaths, herbalists, nutritionists, and natural health students who are ready to move beyond harmful wellness culture narratives and towards truly inclusive, ethical, earth-connected care.
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What Participants Are Saying
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1000% do it. This truly brings first do no harm and the hierarchy of healing into practice.
— Amhran
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1000% do it. This truly brings first do no harm and the hierarchy of healing into practice.
— Amhran
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Not quite ready yet?
You can still sign up for the free guide:
You Don’t Need to Treat the Eating Disorder to Help -
A Scope-Safe Guide for Natural Health Practitioners
When you download the guide, you’ll also receive practice tips, course updates, and occasional practitioner resources.
You can still sign up for the free guide:
You Don’t Need to Treat the Eating Disorder to Help -
A Scope-Safe Guide for Natural Health Practitioners
When you download the guide, you’ll also receive practice tips, course updates, and occasional practitioner resources.
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