Advanced ARFID Training for Clinicians
Here is a list of training for those who want to continue their ARFID training at a more in-depth level. Some of the training covers a lot more than ARFID, giving a comprehensive training in eating and feeding as a whole.
For those of you just coming to this page, I ran an Introduction to ARFID webinar through the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists, which you can sign up for here.
Following this webinar, I was asked for more clinician training opportunities, so I put together this list. If you’re a provider offering training in ARFID for clinicians, please email me and I will add you to this list.
As a note: I haven’t necessarily done the training listed below, so inclusion is not an endorsement from me – this is simply a courtesy resource list. I hope you find it helpful and feel free to let me know how you found the training if you end up taking it.
ARFID Training for Clinicians: The List
Change Creates Change | ARFID for Primary Care Providers. This is a free webinar for primary care providers, to give you an idea of how to care for someone with ARFID:
Change Creates Change | ARFID for Health Care Providers. This course is currently being expanded into a 6-8 week course. They’re anticipating re-launching it in January 2026 and recommend waiting until then to sign up:
Kim Barthel | Eating and Feeding Matters – From Science to Strategies. An on-demand video course that includes content on ARFID but goes in depth about topics like the neurobiology of eating and feeding, sensory processing, and posture and motor control. There is also a live Q&A with Kim included, as well as group discounts and pricing for those in need and in developing countries:
Kay Toomey | Level 1: The SOS Approach to Feeding Training Course (out of 4 levels). This course is 5 days long, with the first 9 hours being a pre-recorded online segment that participants take in the 2 months prior to 4 Days of an in-person segment (in-person schedule here). Participants are not only thoroughly trained on assessment, they are taught how to use the SOS Approach to Feeding to treat these children. There is a Food Scientist Adaptation of the main SOS Training that is used to help children diagnosed with ARFID:
Kay Toomey | Picky Eaters vs Problem Feeders vs Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). Kay also has a few short courses available through PESI, like this one:
Kelly Maher with Noureen Hunani | An Affirming Approach to Supporting Interoception, Feeding Challenges & ARFID – Part 1 (webinar). This recorded webinar focuses on interoception and steering away from compliance-based interventions to instead help clients through affirming strategies, re-defining what progress looks like, and practical strategies you can use in sessions.
Kelly Maher with Noureen Hunani | ARFID & Feeding Challenges: Injustice, Interoception & the Power of Being Believed—An Advanced Conversation (part 2). This webinar follows part 1, above, and delves into injustices that surround feeding to post the question: “What would change if safety, belief, and body trust came before everything else?”
