get bfyb certified
The First Somatic Training for Eating Disorder Professionals
This certification training is open to all clinicians, dieticians, and certified eating disorder coaches. It is designed for you to offer the BFYB Program individually, into your community, or within your treatment program, as it can be integrated alongside any other theoretical framework.
Up to 42 CE units available for those that qualify! Please see below for details.
Dear Professionals:
Are you looking to find a new way to help your clients become unstuck and make peace with their body, relationship with food and develop a more self-compassionate relationship with themselves?
Are you in search of new skills to offer your clients to help them lessen self-harming behavior and increase their agency, empowerment and self-care?
If you answered yes...
Please consider joining me in the BFYB Certification Training, where you will learn how to teach this unique 8-week therapeutic program based on the brain-based knowledge of eating disorders and the world of neuroscience. Come to understand how somatic interventions assist your clients in nervous system regulation, interoceptive awareness, and emotion regulation; and the impact this has on behavioral change, increasing self-compassion, and self-growth.
GET READY TO...
Learn why the evidenced-based skills of interoceptive awareness, embodiment and self-compassion are critical to long-term recovery, and how to properly deliver these skills in a safe and effective way. This somatic-based training will prepare you to deliver this program in a group format or by coaching your client through it individually.
Help your clients learn emotion regulation from the inside-out, where their bodies will become a primary source of information and emotional regulation. They will develop the skills necessary to reduce fear and anxiety; and learn how to work with and prevent getting stuck in self-harming and self-critical cycles.
What You Will Gain
An understanding of the Autonomic nervous system according to the Polyvagal Theory and how the BFYB Program and interventions are effective for internal regulation.
Why a trauma-informed approach is so important for our clients.
The intersection of socio-cultural beliefs and diet culture and its impact on an individual and their nervous system.
An in-depth understanding of interoceptive awareness and brain-based knowledge regarding eating disorders and your client’s nervous system.
How to effectively intervene in nervous system dysregulation and what skills and interventions to apply to re-establish regulation.
Psycho-education about the nervous system, brain and interoceptive awareness.
New, effective interventions for body image disturbance.
How to help your clients re-establish a new relationship with their body based on interoceptive knowledge.
Skills that reconnect and re-establish brain-body signals for a deeper connection to self and sustaining recovery.
A unique and new systematic delivery method of self-compassion.
An understanding of why our clients need a different delivery method of self-compassion and how to deliver that so that it may be safely received.
Understand how self-compassion sustains recovery through action and responsibility.
A fully executed manual with detailed word-for-word descriptions of the practices and teachings to guide your clients through.
How to deliver the skills both in a group format or individually.
What Others Have to Say About the Program…
“If you are working with client with disordered eating of any kind the BFYB training is a must!
Ann’s somatic approach to treating disordered eating is what we have all been waiting for. Not
only is it personally transformative, it provides a safe, powerful, and effective way to help your
clients heal and find freedom again.”
— Kira Lynne, RPC, MPCC, Certified BFYB Teacher
— Melissa Golub, LCSW-R, Certified BFYB Teacher
— Stephanie Armer, LCSW, Certified BFYB Teacher
“I have been working as a therapist in the eating disorder field for nearly two decades and am trained in
somatic therapy practices as well. It hasn’t been until the BFYB training that I have finally seen the path
to working somatically with folks who have eating disorders. I wish everyone could get this information
sooner than I did as it will change your practice.”
— Sarah Alexander, LCSW, Certified BFYB Teacher
The Certification Process
There are two steps to the full certification process: Self-Growth and Certification
1st Step-Personal Growth
Participate in the 8-Week Virtual BFYB Program
Partake in one of my Virtual BFYB Programs or one with an Advanced Certified Teacher (see certified teacher page for info.) held through Zoom (please note the online course does not qualify, Only the virtual program which must be taken with me). You will join as a participant and work through the program personally, along with others, so you can embody the experience.
Because the work is experiential, it is VERY important that you, as a practitioner, are willing to participate in the program for your self-growth, as well as experience the practices before you can effectively train and give these off to another.
*Please note participation in this level does not qualify you to guide or teach the program or any of its practices. This may only be done once the certification is completed.
Please check here for the next 8-week personal growth offering.
Professional Training
Enroll in the Certification Training
The 6-day Certification takes place virtually through Zoom. Trainees will also receive reading material as well as pre-recorded teaching and instruction videos. In our Zoom sessions we will meet to learn the full program material and practices together.
After the completion of the training you will be required to participate in three (once a month) hour-long Zoom Group Supervision Sessions for final certification. Dates and times to be arranged with the group.
Up to 42 CE credits are now available and are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. See below for more details.
Certification Training Dates
Upcoming Dates for 2025
Meet & Greet:
Thursday, April 24, 2025 | 4-5pm EDT
Training Weekends:
April 25-27, 2025 | 9am-5pm EDT
May 2-4, 2025 | 9am-5pm EDT
*You must attend both full weekends to become certified.
Personal & Professional Investment
Personal Growth—8-Week Virtual Program
(Self-Growth level)
$449.99
for the 8-week Virtual Program
Please check here to register for the next 8-week offering.
Professional Certification Training
$1,750
(includes a fully guided manual + pre-recorded training videos)
Access to the online lectures will be made available two weeks before the training begins and you will have access to the material for six months after the start date.
+ 3 Group Supervision Sessions
$120
(for all three)
After the completion of the training you will be required to participate in three (once a month) hour-long Zoom Group Supervision Sessions for final certification. Dates and times to be arranged with the group.
Total Investment = $1,870
(includes a listing on my website and BFYB Certification logo for marketing purposes)
CE Credits Available
CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes.
For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact Ann Saffi Biasetti at info@annembodiedlife.com. For questions about CE, contact Spiritual Competency Academy at info@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.