Family-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders in Private Practice
Confidently deliver FBT and collaborate safely with NHS teams
We’re excited to invite you to a unique training opportunity for mental health professionals working in private practice.
This programme equips you to deliver Family-Based Treatment (FBT) for eating disorders safely while building strong, collaborative relationships with NHS teams to ensure joined-up, effective care.
Bridge the Gap Between Private and Public Care
FBT is an evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents with eating disorders, commonly delivered within NHS multidisciplinary teams.
However, ensuring continuity of care between NHS teams and private practice is a common stumbling block we want to support.
This training offers clear guidance on how to deliver FBT safely in private practice and collaborate effectively with NHS multidisciplinary teams and systems for better outcomes.
Who Should Attend?
- Clinical and counselling psychologists, psychotherapists, doctors, and dietitians working in private settings who want to deliver evidence-based care to young people with eating disorders.
- Clinicians working independently or in small teams who want to build or join a multidisciplinary network to support families through recovery.
What You’ll Learn
- Core principles and practical delivery of Family-Based Treatment (FBT)
- How to provide FBT safely in private outpatient settings
- Best practices for liaising with NHS teams to ensure integrated care
- Navigating NHS structures, outsourcing models, and professional boundaries
- Building and sustaining your own multidisciplinary network
- Making your private practice NHS-collaboration friendly
Why Train with Altum Health?
You’ll learn from a team with 20 years of experience delivering high-quality care in partnership with the NHS.
Altum Health is trusted, accredited, and well-versed in the practicalities of real-world collaboration.
Our expertise includes:
- Seamlessly delivering care in collaboration with NHS services.
- Clear guidance on patient eligibility and safety considerations for private treatment.
- Strategies for ongoing communication with NHS teams, including participation in team meetings and case reviews.
Ongoing Support & Community
Your learning doesn’t stop when the training ends. You’ll have the option to continue your development with:
- Access to our growing professional network of dietitians, psychiatrists, and psychiatric nurses.
- An ongoing monthly supervision group (membership fee applies), facilitated by our Clinical Lead, where you can discuss complex cases and refine your approach.
Course details
This 3-day course includes:
- One online theory day – 9th June (10am – 5pm)
- Two In-person experiential training – 13th & 14th June (10am – 5pm) in central London
Capacity: To ensure personalised support and interactive learning, we’re limiting the group to 20 participants only.
Course fee: The fee for this 3-day training programme is £750 per person. This includes all materials, lunch and refreshments.
Location: The British Psychological Society, 30 Tabernacle Street, London EC2A 4UE
Join us!
This is your opportunity to grow your confidence in delivering FBT, and build strong collaborative links with NHS teams, young people and their families.
Secure your spot today and save £100 with our early bird rate until 2nd May
About Your Trainer
Dr Amy Harrison
Clinical Lead & Highly Specialist Psychologist
Dr Amy Harrison
is an HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologist and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. She completed her PhD on thinking styles and emotional skills in eating disorders at King’s College London, where she was also awarded her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.
Amy is Clinical Lead at Altum Health and leads our Child and Adolescent Pathway which provides family based treatment for eating disorders within an multidisciplinary team context, and a family therapy clinic to support our clients and their loved ones to solve difficult challenges. Amy both leads and delivers this work and supervises team members in this model.
Her career has been dedicated to working with children, adolescents, and adults with eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and body image concerns. Amy has experience across inpatient, daycare, and outpatient settings and is skilled in evidence-based treatments such as CBT, MANTRA, and family-based approaches. She has 13 years’ experience of working systemically with families whose loved ones are accessing care in in-patient and out-patient settings, using Family-Based Treatment.
Amy is an Associate Professor in Psychology at University College London and has published 71 peer reviewed journal articles and 3 book chapters on eating disorders across the lifespan, focusing on understanding the social and emotional challenges faced by people living with eating disorders and developing and evaluating treatments to support recovery.
Amy’s clinical approach integrates cognitive behavioural, systemic, psychodynamic, and positive psychology models, alongside research from cognitive neuroscience. She works with individuals to develop a personal map of strengths and challenges, offering a warm, open, and trusting space to facilitate lasting changes in thinking, behaviour, and relationships. She strongly believes that a warm, collaborative therapeutic relationship is key to effective treatment and that recovery is always possible.
