Certified Binge Eating and Chronic Dieting Professional

• Hold a general registration with AHPRA
• Hold a registration with New Zealand Psychologists Board AND hold a practising certification

• Be a Level 2, 3 or 4 member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA)
• Be a full member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors or Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand
• Be a clinical member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)

• Be a member of the Australian Association of Social Workers
• Hold a practising certificate with the Social Workers Registration Board

• Be accredited by the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

• Hold a General or Specialist registration with the Medical Board of Australia
• Hold a practising certificate and be registered with the Medical Council of New Zealand

Foundation: applicants must show adequate knowledge regarding the etiology of chronic dieting, emotional eating and binge eating disorder, including genetic and environmental factors, co-occurring disorders and related health issues; knowledge regarding the impact of familial and cultural trauma on the development of these disorders; knowledge regarding the definition and impact of weight stigma and health bias on the development of these disorders; knowledge of the impact of dieting/food restriction, and the role it plays psychologically and physiologically in promoting and maintaining these disorders; knowledge of the research regarding weight and health; knowledge of appropriate interventions that do not cause additional body shame or physical harm; and exploration of clinician’s own implicit biases regarding weight stigma and dieting that impact the efficacy of treatment.

Assessments: be aware of various assessment tools, develop competency in the assessment of chronic dieting, emotional eating, and BED; learn how to investigate a client’s relationship with food, weight and body image that does not cause harm.

Comorbidity: understand and evaluate comorbidity with psychiatric and medical conditions and learn to navigate treatment when these conditions are present.

Treatment: gain foundational knowledge on strengths-based treatment modalities that have been deemed effective, such as: intuitive eating, using a non-dieting approach, IFS for BED, trauma-informed and somatic interventions, how to undo the shame cycle and make peace with their bodies and food.

Eating behaviors: gain insight on the function of eating behaviors related to deprivation, chronic dieting, and trauma.

Body shame: understand how they contribute/relate to disordered eating behaviors.

Considerations: ethics – do no harm by prescribing any form of diet, transference, and countertransference, knowing when to refer out.

Diversity/Cultural Competency: Develop awareness of size diversity and how a fat identity intersects with other marginalized identities. Develop awareness and understanding of social justice binge eating issues related to food culture and how that can contribute to a person’s relationship with food.

Disclaimer:
Trainings to meet this certification must be weight neutral/inclusive rather than suggesting the pursuit of weight loss or promising weight loss. They must take a trauma-informed approach that understands BED as a strategy to manage emotional distress rather than prescribing methods to control eating behaviors.

To become CBECDP certified, you must complete all requirements outlined in the certification standards. If you have taken a training not listed as a pre-approved training, please send the course title, outline, learning objectives, and speaker information to info@evergreencertifications.com for review.

When your certification application is approved, you may use the credential “CBECDP”

Your digital badge is automatically in your online account when your certification is active.

Once your application is approved, your certification is granted for two years. To maintain certification, a renewal is required every two years.

Yes, to maintain certification, a renewal is required every two years.

To maintain your CBECDP certification, you need to renew your certification every two years.

• Renewal requires six hours related to one or more of the below topics
  • Emotional eating
  • Binge eating
  • Body image
  • Effective treatment modalities for the areas above
• Six remained hours must be related to binge eating and or chronic dieting in relation to trauma that does not harm

Submit your completion certificate(s), a copy of your professional license, and the renewal fee to Evergreen Certifications. Re-certification training hours need to have been taken in the time since you were initially certified or last renewed. Renewals are calculated from the date that your certification was issued.

If you allow your certification to lapse for more than 2 years, you are no longer eligible to renew your certification and instead can reapply for certification.

Evergreen Certifications will accept courses that have been completed within 2 years of initial application for certification.