Professional Consult Group
Who is this group for?
This group is for dietitians and therapists doing eating disorder care and or food and body healing work, from a fat liberatory, trauma informed, and harm reduction framework. This is for people sitting with the complexity of working within systems that cause harm while also moving towards the necessary healing work, within themselves, within their practice, and within the world.
What is this group about?
Come be held in community as we do this deeply profound work in deeply profound times. This is a space to be held and witnessed in the work, the things you can’t tell your friends, partners, family at the end of your days but that which is desperate for witnessing. Bring your case consults, your grief, your anger, your complexity. You deserve to be held.
Hi, I’m Virginia and I’ll be facilitating our group!
Your guide is Virginia Newman, owner of the radical dietitian, her private practice for dietetic eating disorder care for 7 years. Virginia is a practitioner who practices from her heart first and foremost and the work she does is infused with care and the foundational knowing that people will find their way through their own healing given compassionate trust, caring accountability, and critically informed and nuanced information regarding health and wellbeing. Virginia has been a registered dietitian for 8 years and has a background in the food world from her time working in the environmental and sustainable food and farming realms. She has worked in status quo nutrition environments doing research and coaching and advocacy for HAES models.
She was published in Springer 2020’s Adolescent Nutrition for the chapter on Orthorexia, which she has lived experience of suffering with and healing from. She has an undergraduate degree in sociology and a masters degree in nutrition and dietetics, and has been a practicing certified body trust provider since March of 2020. She often works with complex trauma clinical cases in her practice, and provides 1:1 supervision for dietitians and therapists doing this work. Her practice is guided by her own healing and recovery, and lived experience of neurodivergence and living with Trauma impacts. She is passionate about humanizing folks that suffer with eating disorders and mental illness, and externalizing the blame towards the actual problem: diet culture, anti-fatness and the systems of oppression that perpetuate these harmful ideologies.
My values and beliefs around healing are that we are always in process, there is no right or wrong way, and that the more of ourselves that shows up the more effective, grounded, and supportive our work to others is. I believe that relationship is the foundation and the entity that moves us forward, relationship to ourselves and relationship to our clients.
Ready to join?
Session dates:
January 21st 5pm - 6:30pm pst
February 25th 5pm - 6:30pm pst
March 25th 5pm - 6:30pm pst
April 22nd 5pm - 6:30pm pst
May 20th 5pm - 6:30pm pst
June 24th 5pm - 6:30pm pst
