Become a Certified
Eating Disorder Coach
Train directly with Carolyn.
Bring your lived experience — or your professional background — and learn to guide others well. A rigorous, self-paced certification grounded in a course framework, with supervised practice.
Explore the certification →$7,200 USD · payment plans · rolling enrollment
Our courses are taught directly by Carolyn who has spent almost five decades proving people can become fully recovered.
Carolyn Costin — Founder + Therapist, M.A., M.Ed., MFT · Fellow of the Academy of Eating Disorders.
“Everybody who has walked through my door has had the ability to get better. And I mean fully recovered better.”
I recovered from anorexia in my early twenties, and I've spent my life since helping others do the same. Not managing. Not “recovering” forever. Recovered — body and soul.
Read Carolyn's story →“Being recovered is when you can accept your natural body size and shape, and no longer have a self-destructive or unnatural relationship with food or exercise. When you are recovered, food and weight take a proper perspective in your life, and what you weigh is not more important than who you are — in fact, the actual numbers are of little or no importance at all. When recovered, you will not compromise your health or betray your soul to look a certain way, wear a certain size, or reach a certain number on a scale. When recovered you no longer use eating disorder behaviors to deal with, distract from or cope with other problems.”
CCI recognizes that for people with ARFID (Avoidant, Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) issues around weight and shape are most often not part of the presentation — so their definition of “recovered” would differ.
The 8 Keys to Recovery
The course framework of the curriculum — the focus is on how to get better, used in treatment centers worldwide.
8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder
Carolyn's framework — co-written with Gwen Schubert Grabb.
Become a Certified Eating Disorder Coach
The first program of its kind — rigorous, self-paced, and grounded in the 8 Keys, with a supervised internship and a final exam. For recovered people and professionals alike.
- 12 modules
- Supervised internship
- Final exam
- 2-year renewable
A 12-module certification with a supervised internship and a 2-year credential.
- ✓Self-paced video lectures, handbook & the 8 Keys framework
- ✓Supervised internship with real clients, then a final exam
- ✓Payment plans available · rolling enrollment
Already doing the work? Keep sharpening it with Carolyn.
For licensed clinicians already in the field — therapists, dietitians and counselors — self-paced courses taught by Carolyn herself, practical enough to use with your very next client. Earn accredited CE credit toward your license, or start free.
Part 1 of How vs Why — on us
Watch Carolyn teach the strategies she uses to help clients make the behavior changes that lead to recovery. Content only — no CE credit.
Explore the free course →Earn CE hours & a certificate
The accredited version adds CE contact hours and a certificate — eligible for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs & LEPs under our CAMFT (#134625) and NBCC (ACEP No. 6849) approvals.
These CE approvals apply to the continuing-education courses only — they do not certify or accredit the coach-certification program. Browse all continuing education →
Becoming Recovered:
Body & Soul
The conversation I've been having for forty years — how people actually become recovered. Subscribe and follow wherever you listen.
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Train with Carolyn. Help others become fully recovered.
Rolling enrollment — begin when you're ready. Bring your lived experience, or your professional background.