DECIDE: A 5-Step Clinical Framework for Safe Disordered Eating Practice
for Naturopaths, Herbalists & Nutritionists
A 15+ CPD hour professional training in early identification, harm reduction, and scope-safe care for disordered eating in natural health settings. A trauma-informed, earth-centred, and anti-oppressive approach to food, body, and care.
for Naturopaths, Herbalists & Nutritionists
A 15+ CPD hour professional training in early identification, harm reduction, and scope-safe care for disordered eating in natural health settings. A trauma-informed, earth-centred, and anti-oppressive approach to food, body, and care.
Cohort 1 starts 21 April 2026.
Weekly live sessions: Wednesday evenings (90 min). Limited places available.
Plus: 6 x monthly group Q&A calls (60 min) following the live training to support integration into clinical practice.
Applications are now open!
Each week includes:
• Tuesday - session materials and preparation prompts released
• Wednesday 6:30pm AEST - live 90-minute training and case discussion weekly for 8 weeks
• Questions can be submitted ahead of time for discussion
Weekly live sessions: Wednesday evenings (90 min). Limited places available.
Plus: 6 x monthly group Q&A calls (60 min) following the live training to support integration into clinical practice.
Applications are now open!
Each week includes:
• Tuesday - session materials and preparation prompts released
• Wednesday 6:30pm AEST - live 90-minute training and case discussion weekly for 8 weeks
• Questions can be submitted ahead of time for discussion
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Safe Disordered Eating Practice is an upcoming professional training for naturopaths, herbalists, and nutritionists who want to support clients struggling with food and body distress - safely, ethically, and within scope.
Most naturopaths and nutritionists will encounter disordered eating in clinical 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 are 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 harmful eating patterns.
This course teaches practitioners how to recognise those moments - and respond safely, ethically, and within scope.
Most naturopaths and nutritionists will encounter disordered eating in clinical 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 are 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 harmful eating patterns.
This course teaches practitioners how to recognise those moments - and respond safely, ethically, and within scope.
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Created by Casey Conroy - naturopath, dietitian, and credentialed eating disorder clinician - 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. Safe Disordered Eating Practice 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, Safe Disordered Eating Practice 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 Cohort 1 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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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 Through Case-Based Clinical TrainingThroughout the program we will work through realistic naturopathic case studies, including presentations involving:
Participants will practise applying the frameworks and tools introduced in the course to real-world clinical scenarios. |
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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Ongoing Support & Integration
Learning this work doesn’t happen in one pass. After the 8-week live 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.
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.
Enrolment
Includes 8 weeks of live training + 6 months of ongoing clinical support.
Cohort 1 begins on 21 April 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 “clean eating” narratives and towards truly inclusive, ethical, earth-connected care.
Includes 8 weeks of live training + 6 months of ongoing clinical support.
Cohort 1 begins on 21 April 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 “clean eating” narratives and towards truly inclusive, ethical, earth-connected care.
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Not quite ready yet?
You can still sign up for the free guide:
Supporting Clients with Disordered Eating as a Naturopath
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:
Supporting Clients with Disordered Eating as a Naturopath
When you download the guide, you’ll also receive practice tips, course updates, and occasional practitioner resources.
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