YOUR TRAINERS 

Deanne Jade

Deanne is the Principal of NCFED, established in 1985. In her work as a psychologist, presenter & trainer, she is acknowledged as a leading specialist in the treatment of eating disorders & weight control. As a Practitioner, she draws from 20 years extensive experience in this work.

Deanne has trained in a number of different professional settings, from corporations such as British Airways, professional conferences, NHS Trusts, The University of Surrey & Colleges of Further Education such as Regents College London. She spends some time doing prevention, working in schools with students & parent groups, & gives talks to community organisations on request.

Deanne is a member of the European Council on Eating Disorders, the UK Forum on eating disorders (Division of Clinical Psychology) & the National Obesity Forum. She has assisted NICE with the production of guidelines for both Obesity & Eating Disorder treatments. She is a member of an all-party parliamentary group advising on public health approaches to weight management. Her pioneering work has featured extensively on TV, radio & national newspapers & magazines. Contributions to a number of books include Talking Points: Eating Disorders; (Wayland), Eating Disorders & Obesity (Independence) & Eating Disorders Body Image & the Media for the British Medical Association.

Jane Nodder

Following a management career in business, Jane trained as a Nutritional Therapist at the Institute of Optimum Nutrition in Putney. She runs a busy practice in London & has a special interest in weight management & eating disorders.

Jane has completed the NCFED trainings in Eating Disorders and Obesity Management & works as the nutritional supervisor with the National Centre network. She is a member of the NICE guideline development group for eating disorders & also delivers training seminars for a wide range of professional groups to raise awareness about eating problems. Jane is now working on a research project looking at early identification of eating disorders in primary care.

For businesses she runs "Health at Work" seminars which consider how nutrition can help people cope with the stresses of working life.

Sharon Bates

Sharon is a Specialist Bariatric Nurse/Counsellor and also a qualified and experienced humanistic counsellor with expertise in eating disorders and obesity. She is actively involved in research projects linked to obesity and has presented and published her work internationally. Sharon has particular expertise in this area, having undergone weight loss surgery in 2000, and she is pioneering the development of bariatric teams working in a variety of clinical settings.

Masha Bennett

Masha has a wide range of experience working both with individuals and groups. She has developed and managed an innovative Well Being Centre in Stockport and currently combines her work as a therapist in the NHS with her private practice in Glossop, Derbyshire, with a special interest in addictions, phobias, anxiety, trauma and PTSD.

She has the following qualifications and skills:
• Advanced EFT Practitioner and Trainer Accredited by AAMET
• UKCP Registered Neurolinguistic Psychotherapist
• Trained in EMDR, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Hypnotherapy

Masha teaches regular EFT workshops to professionals in the UK and other countries, including Norway, Israel, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, and is active in the UK ET Research Group.

Professor Bryan Lask

Bryan Lask is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at St George's Hospital Medical School in the University of London. He has specialised in early onset eating disorders for 25 years, having established the first clinical and research programs in the UK for these conditions.
He has published about 150 papers and 7 books, lectured around the world and has held visiting professorships in Canada, the USA, Australia and Norway.

Paul Sacher

Paul Sacher is the founder and Research Director at MEND, an organisation committed to improving the health of families through the development of evidence based treatment and prevention plans for childhood obesity. MEND, the largest child obesity weight management problems, has over 220 sites in the UK, Denmark and Australia.

Paul is also Senior Research Fellow at the Childhood Nutrition Research Centre at the Institute of Child Health.

Professor

Paul Gately

Paul Gately holds a degree in Sports Science , a Masters in Human Nutrition
and Doctorate. He developed the Carnegie Leeds Programme, residential
intervention for the treatment of overweight and obese children. Paul has
also presented a number of television programmes on childhood obesity and is
a regular contributor on radio, television and in the press. He has been a
contributor to the International Obesity Task Force/World Health
Organisation's report on childhood obesity, as well as being a consultant to
many government agencies, health organisations and corporations throughout
the UK and internationally.

Professor Julia Buckroyd

MA (St Andrews); MA (McMaster); PhD (Cambridge) Dip. Counselling (Birkbeck) Member Guild of Psychotherapists; Registered UKCP therapist

Her background is in the humanities and in counselling and psychotherapy. She came to Herts in 1994 as a Principal Lecturer to deliver the counselling training. Since 1999 she has spent most of her time in research. In 2002 she was made Professor of Counselling, with two main interests: the first is the development of interventions for eating disorders and obesity based on an understanding of the importance of psychological factors in the genesis and maintenance of disordered eating. The other focus for her work has been the improvement of professional dance training from a psychological and developmental perspective.

Main publications: 2000 Publication of 'The Student Dancer', the result of 15 years of research and experience as a counsellor within the professional dance training world. 2002 Professor of Counselling. 2004 Beginning of a multi-group study to evaluate integrative group therapy for obese women. 2005 Establishment of Obesity and Eating Disorders Research Unit. 2007 Publication of 'Therapeutic Groups for Obese Women: a group leader's handbook' which encapsulates much of the research that Julia has undertaken since 1999. 2007 Publication of 'Psychological Approaches to Eating Disorders and Obesity' which is the product of two conferences which she organised at University of Herts.