Working with Neurodivergent Clients

Lisa is a co-founder of NEDDE Training – ‘Neurodiversity, Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating’ – alongside Bernie Wright. She is a Registered Nutritionist with the British Association For Nutrition And Lifestyle Medicine (BANT), and specialises in functional nutrition. Her focus is upon the presenting client and not any diagnosis or label they may have been given.

Lisa always believes in going beyond the basic dietary guidelines. Consideration is given to a client’s internal and external environment, their genetic predisposition and lifestyle, in order to identify factors which may be impacting upon physical or mental wellbeing.

Having worked with Bernie for over a decade, Lisa has a wealth of experience encompassing all eating behaviours, as well as an understanding of the influence neurodivergence can play in these.

Lisa is a senior lecturer at the renowned College of Naturopathic Medicine, and has also worked closely with a cognitive neuroscientist, studying and understanding the interaction between hormones & neurotransmitters and their influences over behaviour.

Bernie is the co-founder and director of NEDDE TRAINING – ‘Neurodiversity, Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating’ – and a BACP (Accredited) Counsellor/Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor. She qualified in 2004. In 2007, she trained as a Master Practitioner in Eating Disorders and Obesity at The National Centre for Eating Disorders (NCFED). Subsequently, she went on to become their supervisor, mentor, senior lecturer and clinical lead.

She launched NEDDE TRAINING with Lisa Smith after identifying the lack of support readily available for the extensive number of neurodivergent individuals suffering with eating disorders and disordered eating.

Bernie has been running her own company, Healing Minds, working as a private therapist, advisor and trainer, for many years.