As a registered, licensed dietitian for over 20 years, and nutrition therapist since 2011, Diana offers a weight neutral, parts centered approach as a foundation of curiosity for clients to discover their own eating philosophy and beliefs. She co-facilitated a 4-month Self-Led Eating learning experience for the IFS Continuity Program and offered several presentations at IFS Conferences. She co-leads on-going workshops to introduce IFS to nutrition professionals and currently is co-creating an IFS training for dietitians. Her IFS experience includes basic and advanced IFIO couples’ trainings, and she regularly staffs Level 1 and 2 trainings and immersive IFS retreats. She consults with dietitians and therapists interested in integrating IFS into their practice.

Molly Kellogg, RD, LCSW is a Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist and Authorized IFS Clinical Consultant based in Philadelphia. She was a dietitian treating eating disorders for 30 years and trained dietitians in motivational interviewing. She is the author of Counseling Tips for Nutrition Therapists: Practice Workbook series. Partnering with Diana Dugan Richards, RDN, LDN she provides resources and introductory training in IFS for dietitians.

Salicia Mazero MA, LPC, ATR, CEDS-C is a licensed professional counselor, registered art therapist and a certified eating disorder specialist and supervisor practicing in St. Louis, MO. Salicia is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) and is working towards becoming a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). Over the past 10 years, Salicia has worked in two treatment centers focusing on treating eating disorders before starting her group practice, Creating Your Journey. Salicia is the founding president of networkED, an educational and networking organization for ED clinicians in St. Louis. Salicia is a professional member of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals and currently serves as a consultation to clinicians getting their CEDS. She previously served on the board of directors for the Missouri Eating Disorder Association (MOEDA). She currently sits on the advisory board of MOEDA and is a presenter for their Feed the Facts program educating students and teachers about eating disorders and prevention in the school system. She is a faculty member of the Expressive Therapies Summit and the Ferentz Institute. Salicia recently co-authored a chapter on Art Therapy, IFS and EMDR in the book EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies. She presents nationwide annually on art therapy, IFS, and eating disorder treatment.

Peggy Kolodny, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT, earned her master’s in art therapy from GWU in 1982. Founder of the Art Therapy Collective in Maryland, she specializes in trauma-focused multimodal art therapy across the lifespan, holding level 2 certificates in IFS and in EMDR. She is adjunct faculty for GWU and FSU Art Therapy Graduate Programs trauma tracks and is workshop faculty for the Ferentz Institute and Chesapeake Beach Professional Seminars. Currently she is Co-Chair for the EMDR Special Interest Group for the International Society on the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) and recent past Chair of the Creative Art Therapists Special Interest Group. Past positions include Vice-chair of the Maryland Chapter of American Professional Society on Abuse of Children; Chairperson of Central Maryland Sexual Abuse Treatment Task Force; and President of Maryland Art Therapy Association. Past faculties include University of Maryland School of Social Work, MICA, and Goucher College.
Peggy recently published several chapters in Art Therapy in the Treatment of Addictions and Trauma (Quinn, 2021) and co-authored a chapter on The Interweave of IFS, EMDR and Art Therapy in EMDR and The Creative Arts Therapies (Davis et al, 2023). She has 2 more chapters in press including Art Therapy and DID in Wiley’s Handbook of Art Therapy.

Dick Schwartz began his career as a family therapist and an academic at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There he discovered that family therapy alone did not achieve full symptom relief and in asking patients why, he learned that they were plagued by what they called “parts.” These patients became his teachers as they described how their parts formed networks of inner relationship that resembled the families he had been working with. He also found that as they focused on and, thereby, separated from their parts, they would shift into a state characterized by qualities like curiosity, calm, confidence and compassion. He called that inner essence the Self and was amazed to find it even in severely diagnosed and traumatized patients. From these explorations the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model was born in the early 1980s.

IFS is now evidence-based and has become a widely-used form of psychotherapy, particularly with trauma. It provides a non-pathologizing, optimistic, and empowering perspective and a practical and effective set of techniques for working with individuals, couples, families, and more recently, corporations and classrooms.

Dick lives with his wife Jeanne near Chicago, close to his three daughters and his growing number of grandchildren.

Amy Pershing LMSW, ACSW, CCTP-II is the Founder of Bodywise, the first BED-specific treatment program in the United States, founded in 1995. She is the Director of Pershing Consulting, which offers training to clinicians and programs treating BED around the world. Amy is also the creator of “Hungerwise™,” a 9-week program for ending chronic dieting and weight cycling using the Attuned Eating and Movement approach, offered nationally online. Amy serves as the Vice President of the Board of the Center for Eating Disorders in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Based on over 30 years of clinical experience, Amy has pioneered a treatment approach for BED that is strengths-based, incorporating Internal Family Systems, somatic trauma techniques, Attuned Eating and Movement (AEM), and a “health at every size” philosophy. She lectures and keynotes internationally and writes extensively on the treatment of BED and her own recovery journey for both professional and lay communities. Amy has been featured on radio, podcast, and television speaking about BED treatment and recovery, relapse prevention, weight stigma, and attuned eating and movement. She is a founding member and Past Chair of the Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA), and is the winner of BEDA’s Pioneer in Clinical Advocacy award. She is the author of the book Binge Eating Disorder: The Journey to Recovery and Beyond (Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2018) and numerous articles and chapters about BED treatment and advocacy. Amy maintains her clinical practice treating BED in Ann Arbor, MI.

Wendy Oliver Pyatt, MD, FAED, CEDS is presently the Cofounder, CEO and Chief Clinical Officer of Within Health and the CEO and Cofounder of Galen Hope operating through Galen Mental Health. She is a board- certified psychiatrist and world-leading expert on treating eating disorders and has more than 25 years of clinical experience. She has developed five separate treatment programs all grounded in a strong bio-psycho-social foundation and incorporating intensive psychotherapy with behavioral foundations and high medical standards. Wendy is known for her innovative, humane, and dignity enhancing approach to medically and psychiatrically thorough care. Wendy has developed a unique treatment approach that delves into the underlying issues that place a person at risk for mental health conditions and eating disorders and lead to healing, health, and inner peace.

As CEO of the Body Equity Alliance, Turner leads efforts to engage in advocacy and activism, provide education, coaching, navigation and communications, advise best practices, and influence public policy on issues related to eating disorders, weight stigma and weight discrimination, and health equity.

Turner's dedication to public health began when she was part of a team working to ensure cancer patients had ongoing access to critical treatments. Driven by her own struggles and recovery, she founded the Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) to address the unmet needs of people with the most prevalent eating disorder. After 10 years of pioneering work, BEDA merged with the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) in 2018 after noteworthy milestones that included working to add binge eating disorder (BED) to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual’s 5th Edition (DSM-5), developing a national awareness week addressing weight stigma and intersecting oppressions, creating industry-leading educational programming, and public policy work at the state and national levels. More work in the healthcare arena, education around moving past social determinants of health to health equity, and a dedication to healthcare as a human right has prepared her to help clients make important shifts in their own work.

Aaron Flores is a registered dietitian nutritionist based out of Los Angeles, California.
With over 10 years of experience, Aaron has worked with eating disorders in a variety of
settings. A large part of his career was spent working at the VA Greater Los Angeles
Healthcare System where he helped develop and launch one of the first Binge Eating
Disorder programs to help Veterans struggling with this disorder. Since leaving the VA,
Aaron has continued to work in the eating disorder community helping run groups and
providing individual counseling to adolescents and adults. He currently has a private
practice in Calabasas, CA. He is a Certified Body Trust® provider, and his main areas
of focus are Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size® and weight inclusivity. In his

work, Aaron helps individuals learn how to make peace with food and develop body-
positive behaviors. His work has been featured during Weight Stigma Awareness Week,

in blogs for the National Eating Disorder Information Centre and National Eating
Disorder Association. Aaron is a frequent speaker and has presented at the 2016 and
2017 Binge Eating Disorder Awareness Annual Conference, the 2018 and 2019
International Conference on Eating Disorders and the 2018 Association for Size
Diversity and Health Conference. Along with his work with eating disorders, he hosts of
the podcast, Men Unscripted and the co-host of the podcast, Dietitians Unplugged.

Marcella Cox, LMFT, Certified IFS Therapist and Approved IFS Clinical Consultant & CEDS-S (she/her)
Founder, Kindful Body & Co-founder, IFS Telehealth Collective

Marcella Cox, LMFT, Certified IFS Therapist, Approved IFS Clinical Consultant, and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist - Supervisor has been in clinical practice for more than a decade. Her work is focused on treating disordered eating, body shame, and trauma. Marcella contributed the chapter on IFS and Disordered Eating in Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS Model with Key Modalities, Communities, and Trends (Pivotal Press, 2023). She assists Susan McConnell with Somatic IFS trainings for practitioners, an approach that blends the IFS Model of Therapy with somatic practices. Her certifications as a Body Trust Provider, Daring Way Facilitator and Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher also inform her clinical work.

Marcella is the founder of Kindful Body, a collaboration of experienced eating disorder professionals providing online therapy and nutrition counseling throughout California. She also co-founded the IFS Telehealth Collective with lead IFS trainers, Mariel Pastor, LMFT and Paul Ginter, Ed.D. The IFS Telehealth Collective is a multi-state mental health group practice dedicated to providing authentic, high-quality IFS Therapy online throughout California, New York, Massachusetts, Florida, Oregon and Michigan. Marcella provides professional supervision and consultation, workshops and trainings, and will soon be offering in-person retreats. To learn more, visit www.kindfulbody.com

Wendy Sterling, MS, RD, CSSD, CEDS-S specializes in adolescent nutrition, eating disorders and sports nutrition. She is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian and a Board-Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics from the San Francisco Bay Area. She has consulted for the Oakland Athletics, Golden State Warriors, NY Jets, and NY Islanders. She is a frequent lecturer to schools and sports teams, emphasizing a Health at Every Size Approach®, while integrating nutrition practices that are sustainable and practical. She is the co-author of How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder, How To Nourish Yourself Through an Eating Disorder, No Weigh! A Teens Guide to Body Image, Food, and Emotional Wisdom and Raising Body Positive Teens: A Parent's Guide to Diet-Free Living, Exercise and Body Image. She is the co-founder of the Plate-by-Plate Approach®, a no-numbers, visual approach to the nutritional treatment of eating disorders. She also sees patients virtually nationwide through Sterling Nutrition at www.sterlingnutrion.com.

Theresa Chesnut specializes in the treatment of Eating Disorders, Post Traumatic Stress
Disorders (PTSD), and issues related to anxiety, depression and stress. Her focus embraces the
optimization of athletic performance as well as the resolution of conflicts arising within the family,
particularly those pertaining to adolescent growth. Her therapeutic orientation is holistic,
strength-based, and grounded in both psychodynamic and Internal Family Systems (IFS)
theories.
Theresa has worked with adolescents and adults for over 30 years, managing her clients’
challenges with Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating Disorders. Previous to her having formed
her own private group practice, she held the position of Clinical Director at The Healthy Teen
Project (HTP), an adolescent, eating disorder-specific outpatient clinic. Before her tenure at
HTP, Theresa held many roles over her 13-year stint at a national eating disorder residential
treatment center, including Program Director, Lead Individual and Group Therapist, Program
Director, Director of Regional Marketing, and supervising master level interns. She was also
instrumental in a senior management role, starting new programs, training new staff, overseeing
operations, creating policies and procedures for programs, and expanding existing practices into
new geographic locations.
Theresa lectures locally and nationally, both in person and virtually, on therapeutic interventions
targeting the entire eating disorder recovery process. Over the last 3 decades, Theresa has
lectured on college campuses as well as to allied professionals covering the state of the art of
symptom identification and eating disorder prevention, therapeutic interventions. She has been
trained in Family Based Therapy (FBT), Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), and has
been an Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist for 2 decades; additionally, she has assisted in
Level One Trainings.
Theresa served as a Board member of the national Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA)
from 2009-2017 and held board positions as the Secretary, Vice-Chair, and Chair. Additionally,
she sat on several committees including the Conference Committee and Weight Stigma
Awareness Week." Theresa currently runs an annual event - The Tri-State Eating Disorder
Conference in Evansville, Indiana. She maintains group practices in California and in Indiana.
The practice offers practicum internships for Masters level students. She is one of IADEP’s
Certified Eating Disorder Specialists, in addition to being one of their Supervisors. Although she
maintains her private practice in Northern California, she resides in Evansville, IN where she is a
proud grandmother to 4 grandchildren and her therapy Shepadoodle, Stevie Nicks.

Signe Darpinian is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Certified Eating Disorders Specialist. She is also the host of Therapy Rocks! a personal growth podcast, public speaker, and co-author of No Weigh! A Teen’s Guide to Positive Body Image, Food, and Emotional Wisdom and Raising Body Positive Teens: A Parent's Guide to Diet-Free Living, Exercise and Body Image, both with Jessica Kingsley Publishers in London. She provides tele-health in the state of California. Signe is the past president of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (iaedp™) SF Bay Area Chapter. Over the past several years, she's been recognized by various organizations for her accomplishments in women's health and business while also being requested for speaking engagements at renowned institutions like top-rated Rancho La Puerta Spa in Mexico, Stanford University and Pinterest Headquarters. Follow her on instagram @noweighguide and @therapyrockspodcast.

Shelley Aggarwal MD, is a board-certified Pediatrician and Adolescent Medicine Sub-Specialist. She treats medically complex teens and young adults, and consults on a variety of youth-specific health issues including adolescent development, the management of eating disorders, reproductive health, the needs of the chronically ill child, weight-neutral approaches to wellbeing, and medical complications related to mental health conditions, to name a few. Working effectively in a multidisciplinary model is key in adolescent health and Dr. Aggarwal works in close collaboration with a variety of specialists and mental health providers to align goals and provide holistic care. She is also the co-author of No Weigh! A Teen’s Guide to Positive Body Image, Food, and Emotional Wisdom and How to Raise Body Positive Teens: A Parent's Guide to Diet-Free Living, Exercise and Body Image, both with Jessica Kingsley Publishers in London.

Dr. Aggarwal was born to Indian parents who moved to the United States when she was young. Her parents remained committed to their East Indian culture which inspired rich and complicated experiences of food and body, particularly as they relate to standards of what is “normal” and “acceptable.” These experiences and years of medical training have led to broadening the conversation about what it means to be “healthy,” deprogramming messages around “good” and “bad” food, and normalizing approaches towards wellbeing that are aligned with one’s needs.

Dr. Aggarwal has worked with premiere academic institutions and continues to be teaching faculty with Stanford Children's Health and UCSF-Fresno. As an adolescent health expert, she has spoken to small groups of parents and teens about youth well being and also presented at conferences on scholarly topics. She has provided on-the-ground care with local and international non-profits, volunteering in places such as Mongolia, Cambodia and Mexico to name a few, and she has interned with agencies such as the WHO. Currently, she is the Medical Director of clinics serving justice involved youth. Her career and life is a work in progress and increasingly defined by work related to bridging health disparities and aligning with youth and families on building sustained and sustainable wellbeing.

Dr. Angela Denise Mensah, nee Prater, Ph.D. is a communication professor, a published author, and has spoken at national and international conferences. She is currently a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas as a joint faculty member of Communication and African and African American Studies. She is developing a service-learning project where the University of Arkansas students work with a community partner to teach body neutrality to youth participants.

Dr. Mensah is a feminist critical theorist who believes that oppression is oppression and no one group of people is affected by it more or less than another. Because oppression is a human experience, we all must be reminded when we are being oppressed or being the oppressor (all humans experience both roles whether we like to admit it or not). Body image which includes but is not limited to Ability, Age, and Gender oppression are ways in which individuals still experience overt oppression in society.
Dr. Mensah holds a Bachelor of Science in Television Production from Ferris State University; a Masters of Arts in Communication from Western Michigan University and a Doctorate of Philosophy [School of Communication Studies with a cognate in Media] from Bowling Green State University, 2008. She enjoys nature photography, and contemporary Christian music and loves hanging out with her black Labrador retriever, Hopper!

Dr. Mensah has worked with several non-profits to raise awareness of body image and disordered eating including the National Eating Disorder Association, Mental Fitness, Inc. (formally Normal in Schools), Binge Eating Disorder Association, the Body Freedom Project, and now Body Equity Alliance. As an individual with lived experience, she believes that as children we absorb all the negative messages in society and have no defense against them unless there is an adult that intervenes in a positive way to help. She is committed to working with individuals to work toward a healthy body image toward the self and others to create a better society. She worked in community colleges, research universities, and the non-profit sector to reach a wider group of people that are on the margins fighting to make a better life for themselves and their families.

Dr. Erikka Taylor, MD, MPH, DFAACAP, is a double board-certified Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist who has been committed to serving individuals and families impacted by eating disorders for over 10 years. As a mental health advocate, Dr. Taylor currently serves on the Race, Ethnicity and Equity committee for the North Carolina Psychiatric Association, and she is the immediate Past President of the North Carolina Council of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. She also is a delegate for the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Assembly.

Jeanne Catanzaro, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in treating eating disorders and trauma for the past 25 years. She trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, and EMDR before discovering the Internal Family Systems Model. An approved IFS consultant, she has written two chapters on using IFS to treat eating disorders, one in Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy (2017) and another in Trauma-Informed Approaches to Eating Disorders (2019). For the past ten years she’s been focused on healing eating issues across the spectrum. Her book, tentatively titled Unburdened Eating: An IFS approach to Healing Your Relationships with Food and Your Body, focuses on healing the cultural legacy burdens that keep people from having Self-led relationships with their bodies.