The ED-ND Overlap

Participants will explore how sensory needs, executive dysfunction, and interoceptive differences shape the neurodivergent experience of eating disorders. Learn why standard treatments fall short—and gain practical, affirming strategies to create truly individualized care.

Participants will learn how conventional treatment models may fall short and gain practical strategies to create neurodivergent-affirming, individualized care plans. By the end of this course, viewers will leave with a deeper understanding of how to support neurodivergent clients and to view common practices with a more critical eye for the purpose of honoring both client autonomy and their unique sensory and cognitive experiences.

1.5 CE’s provided by Re-Discovering You sponsored by APA

Emily Curley (she/her) is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the states of California and Oregon, specializing in eating disorders and adult neurodivergence. Emily has over 10 years of experience working in the eating disorder field, from outpatient to residential levels of care, with all ages and genders, in all roles from Milieu Support to Clinical Director. In 2023, Em left the corporate treatment environment to focus full-time on private practice, where she practices whole-person, autonomy-based care. An AuDHDer herself, her work has taken a natural turn toward primarily working with the intersection of eating disorders and neurodivergence and educating clients, their loved ones, and other helping professionals on how we can shift standardized care to be more neurodivergent-affirming and unlearn much of the one-size-fits-all language of eating disorder recovery work.