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Meet Me Where I Am!

CE Hours 1

About this live event

As individuals with eating disorders increasingly seek greater flexibility and convenience in their treatment, providers are facing increasingly complex clinical and treatment challenges. Some clients prefer virtual care, others want in-person treatment, and many seek hybrid models that offer both. Simultaneously, a widely reported trend across the field shows individuals presenting with higher acuity than ever before. Clinicians in both outpatient and higher levels of care are encountering more cases where individuals or families express interest in treatment options that may not match the intensity required for the clinical severity of illness. Often, clients are unable—or unwilling—to engage in the level of care indicated by best practice standards. This raises difficult questions for providers. This panel features three seasoned clinical leaders from a multidisciplinary treatment team who will share their real-world experiences navigating these questions. They will present their program’s efforts to design and implement flexible care pathways that maintain clinical rigor while honoring client and family preferences. The session will include insights from data on client preferences, reflections on staff training needs, and discussion of the complex balance between meeting clients where they are and delivering clinically sound care.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe common barriers to care experienced by individuals and families as well as strategies to overcome these barriers
  • Explain how increased flexibility in delivery of the components of care provided across the continuum of eating disorders treatment can address the unique needs of individuals with eating disorders and support families to assist their loved one in their recovery journey
  • List flexibility focused interventions used by multidisciplinary team members across the care continuum and how they support eating disorder recovery

Learning Levels

  • Beginner

Target Audience

Professional counselors, mental health professionals, dietitians, social workers, healthcare providers, and individuals seeking to expand their knowledge in these areas.

Agenda


Live event Instructor(s)

  • Sydney Brodeur-Johnson, PhD, LCP, CEDS

    Sydney Brodeur-Johnson (she/her), PhD, LCP, CEDS, is the Vice President of Clinical Services and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Accanto Health, the parent company of The Emily Program and Gather Behavioral Health.

    Sydney’s passion is providing best-practice, research-informed, and multiculturally competent treatment to patients and their families suffering with eating disorders. She is committed to increasing access to effective treatment, training professionals to deliver gold-standard care, and empowering them to be the best providers and people they can be.

    Dr. Brodeur-Johnson received her PhD in counseling psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in 2005 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a concentration in the interdisciplinary treatment of adolescents with eating disorders. She assisted with the opening of Carolina House, a residential eating disorder treatment facility in Durham, NC, and was its first Clinical Director. From 2008 to 2019, Sydney served as the eating disorder specialist and Associate Director for Training at University Counseling Services at VCU. In that role, she maintained APA accreditation of the psychology internship program and was the administrator for the training program for students in psychology, social work, and counselor education. She also served as a member of the center’s executive team.

    In her free time, Sydney enjoys spending time with her children and partner, being outdoors, listening to music, and traveling.

  • Brad E.R. Smith, MD, DFAPA

    Dr. Brad Smith, MD, DFAPA (he/him) is the Chief Medical Officer for Accanto Health, overseeing the clinical direction of The Emily Program and Gather Behavioral Health. With 25 years of experience in psychiatry and medical leadership, he is dedicated to advancing high-quality, patient-centered care for individuals with eating disorders.

    Board-certified in adult and forensic psychiatry, Dr. Smith has spent his career developing innovative, evidence-based treatment programs. Before joining Accanto Health, he directed clinical services at all levels of care within Eating Disorder Recovery Services at Rogers Behavioral Health. He is recognized for his leadership in improving clinical outcomes and expanding access to care for those in need.

    Dr. Smith earned his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin, where he also completed his psychiatry residency, serving as chief resident in his final year. He completed a fellowship in forensic psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, an honor that highlights his substantial contributions to the field.

    In addition to his clinical leadership, Dr. Smith is passionate about education and has served as a voluntary assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He has lectured nationally on a wide range of topics related to eating disorders and mental health, including peer-selected presentations for the National Eating Disorders Association and the Multi-Service Eating Disorders Association annual meetings.

  • Shena Washburn, RDN, CD, LD, CEDS-C

    Shena Washburn is the Senior Director of Clinical Nutrition and Culinary Services at Accanto Health. She has 15 years of experience in the field of nutrition, mental health and eating disorders and is recognized by the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP) as a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Consultant (CEDS-C). Shena is passionate about supporting individuals in their eating disorder recovery to find a balanced and sustainable relationship with food, movement, and their body, and building strong collaborative multi-disciplinary teams.

Disclosure

This educational program is made available to the public free of charge through the financial support of The Emily Program Foundation.

CE Process Info

Each professional is responsible for the individual requirements as stipulated by their licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. Please note: You must attend "live" (in real-time) to earn CE credits. No partial credits. 

Before the event, you will receive an email from CE-Go with access to the virtual event. After the event, you will receive access to your evaluation and continuing education certificate via a personalized "attendee dashboard" link, hosted on the CE-Go website. This link and access to the virtual event will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event.

Upon accessing the CE-Go "attendee dashboard", you will be able to:

  • Complete evaluation forms for the event
  • Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the CE-Go platform, please contact CE-Go at 888-498-5578 or by email at support@ce-go.com Please Note: Emails for this event will come from "support@ce-go.com".

If you have any continuing education related questions, please contact outreach@emilyprogram.com.

Please make sure to check your spam/junk folder in case those emails get "stuck". We'd also suggest "whitelisting" support@ce-go.com. This tells your email client that you know this sender and trust them, which will keep emails from this contact at the top of your inbox and out of the junk folder.

  • American Psychological Association (APA)

    The Emily Program is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Emily Program maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

  • National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)

    The Emily Program has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP no. 7166. Programs that do not qualify are clearly identified. The Emily Program is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Disability Accommodation

ADA accommodations will be made in accordance with the law; please indicate your special needs when you register by sending an email to outreach@accanto.com.

Where can I find my Attendee Dashboard link?

Upon registering, you should receive an email from support@ce-go.com with a link to access your Attendee Dashboard. If you do not see it in your inbox, please check your spam/junk folder. If you still cannot locate the email, you may retrieve your Attendee Dashboard link by clicking HERE

Grievance Policy

If a grievance arises pertaining to continuing education activities or processes, please contact outreach@accanto.com as soon as possible, so that the nature of the concern may be addressed in a timely fashion.

Grievances may include but are not limited to concerns regarding payment and refund requests, course content, workshop offerings, facilities, non-receipt of certificates, or other miscellaneous occurrences.

To read our entire grievance policy, please visit https://accanto.com/wp-content/uploads/Accanto-Health-CEU-Grievance-Policy.pdf.  

Attendance Policy

All attendance will be monitored and recorded. Due to accreditation guidelines, continuing education credit will not be awarded to participants who do not attend a presentation in its entirety. Participants not meeting this time requirement will not be awarded continuing education (CE) credits. We recommend logging on to the webinar 10 minutes prior to the session start time to earn satisfactory attendance for CE credits. 


Evaluation of each session will also be required in order to obtain any continuing education (CE) certificates. 

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  • Date
    Thu May 7th, 2026
  • Time
    11:00am - 12:00pm CDT

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