Workshops and Courses for Professionals

At Anchor, we take pride in nurturing the development of healthcare professionals and educators with our focused training programs. We are known for our dynamic, engaging, personable, and highly experiential training styles. Our training programs consistently earn outstanding satisfaction ratings from participants and are praised for delivering comprehensive expert-level knowledge. We offer trainings through Anchor (in person and online) and we are happy to provide these trainings to other clinics, agencies, or groups. We also provide custom training to meet your unique needs.

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Enhancing the Role of Caregivers in your Practice

2 Hour - 2 Day Training

We offer a variety of trainings from a 2 hour talk to a 2 day workshop on how to enhance the role of caregivers in your health care setting.  We believe in the power of caregivers in supporting their ...

Braving Burn Out

1/2 Day

This can be a 2 hour talk or a half day workshop for health care professionals. We often talk about preventing burn out, but rarely stop to really understand and explore how to recognize, prevent and ...

EFFT/EFT-F Experiential Practice: Deepening Caregiver and Clinician Blocks

1 Day Training

This intensive 1-day training is intended for those who have already attended introductory training in EFFT, EFST, or EFT-F and who wish to deepen their knowledge and skill set. This training explores...

Role Play to the Rescue

1 Day Training

This intensive 1-day training focuses on the critical skill of role play in Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)/Emotion-Focused Therapy-Family (EFT-F).  Experiential practice through role play is es...

Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)/Emotion-Focused Therapy-Family (EFT-F): 3 Day Core Training

3 Day Training

This 3-day core EFFT/EFT-F training will provide clinicians with the core skills to start empowering caregivers and integrating emotion-focused therapy into their work with families and caregivers.  E...

Bridging the Spectrum: Enhancing Assessment and Intervention Skills to Support Autistic Clients

Are you increasingly working with Autistic and neurodivergent clients? Are you looking to improve your skills in working with Autistic clients?  Join Dr. Hien Nguyen, Dr. Sarah Jane Norwood and Julie ...

Nutrition and Health at Every Size (HAES)

2 Hour - 1 Day Training

We offer 2 hour to full day workshops on non-diet approaches to perinatal and postnatal nutrition.   We offer 2 hour to full day workshops on the importance of moving away from numbers to focus on ove...

EFFT for Dietitians: Emotion Coaching Skills-Based Course for Dieititians working in Eating Disorders

Online live and recorded course

As dietitians in the field of eating disorders, you already know that emotional support is a huge part of the work you do.   Why would you need this course? Because you value the role that emotional ...

The Role of Nursing in the Management of Eating Disorders in Youth – Working with a Team

1 Day Training

This training is for nurses who will provide medical management of youth with eating disorders.  This one-day training will review the recommendations from the American Academy for Eating Disorders on...

EFFT/EFT-F Experiential Practice: Deepening Your Work with Caregiver and Clinician Blocks in Eating Disorder Treatment

1 Day Training

This intensive 1-day training is intended for those who have already attended introductory training in EFFT, EFST, or EFT-F and who wish to deepen their knowledge and skill set. This training will foc...

Role Play to the Rescue: Advanced Training in Empowering Caregivers in Eating Disorder Treatment

1 Day Training

This intensive 1-day training focuses on the critical skill of role play in EFFT/EFT-F in eating disorder treatment. Experiential practice through role play is essential to help caregivers learn skill...

Beyond Weight Restoration & Symptom Interruption: Addressing Self-Esteem, Body image, and Emotional Processing in Youth with Eating Disorders

2 Day Training

This intensive two-day training will provide participants with clinical skills to address issues beyond weight restoration and symptom interruption in eating disorder treatment.  Strategies to address...

Training Facilitators for the Delivery of a Skills Group for Caregivers of Youth with Eating Disorders

8 Week Training

Training for group facilitators on the delivery of an 8 week group for Caregivers of youth with eating disorders titled, “You Matter More than you Know:  Supporting your Youth with an Eating Disorder....

Emotion-Focused Therapy with Youth with Eating Disorders: Chair Work and Beyond

1 Day Training

This 1-day training will introduce clinicians to experiential exercises rooted in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) that allow for deeper emotional processing in their clients with eating disorders.  Thro...

Nutrition Management and Meal Plans for Clinicians in Eating Disorder Treatment

4 Hour Training

(Facilitated by a registered dietitian). Level 1 & 2 trainings offered These four-hour trainings will provide: Level 1: Helpful versus harmful strategies regarding nutrition with clients and fami...

Raising the Red Flag: Treating ARFID and Responding to Early Warning Signs of Eating Disorders

2 Day Training

This 2-day training is aimed at addressing pre-clinical presentations of eating, weight and shape concerns in latency-age children and youth and Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).  Cli...

Tricky Issues around Eating Disorders: Advanced Skills around Meal Support and Symptom Interruption

1 Day Training

This 1-day training is aimed at extending the skills of clinicians working with children and youth with eating disorders.  We will develop and practice skills in meal support and the interruption of s...

Eating Disorders Treatment: Emotion-Focused Family Therapy(EFFT)/Emotion-Focused Therapy-Family (EFT-F)

3 Day Training

This 3-day training will delve deeply into intervention strategies, focusing on Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) as a treatment approach for eating disorders.  EFFT is a transdiagnostic treatment...

Eating Disorders in Children & Youth: Understanding, Assessing, and Treating

2 Day Training

This 2-day training is appropriate for all clinicians who want to learn more about the assessment and treatment of eating disorders.  This training is aimed at providing participants with: Confidence...

Custom Trainings

Please reach out to us. Our team has a wide range of expertise and depth of knowledge. We are happy to discuss the development of new training ideas you would like to explore for your team or organization.

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