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 Bennett is advanced Emotional Freedom Technique practitioner and trainer on behalf of the National Centre for Eating Disorders. Emotional Freedom Technique is a psychosomatic therapy, sometimes described as psychological acupressure. It was developed in the US in the 1990s and has been hailed as a universal healing aid.

Masha has a wide range of experience working both with individuals and groups. She currently manages an innovative Well Being Centre in Stockport and also works in Gloucester with private patients, specialising in additions, phobias, anxiety, trauma and PTSD.

She offers the following qualifications and skills
• Advanced EFT Practitioner and Trainer Accredited by AAMET
• Experience in CBT which she applies in group and individual therapy in the addictions field
• Currently undertaking advanced-level training in Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy and a MSc degree in Weight

   Management
• Completion of the NCFED Practitioner Skills training in Eating Disorders
• Advanced motivational and communications skills as an Executive and Life Coach

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.