Wendy Sterling

EDUCATION, TRAINING, and EXPERTISE: Wendy worked at The Healthy Teen Project, an intensive outpatient program and partial-hospitalization program for teens struggling with eating disorders, from 2014-2017. Wendy provided nutrition counseling to children and adolescents in the Eating Disorders Center at Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York which is part of the NS-LIJ Health System from 2001-2011. There she worked as part of a multi-disciplinary team, evaluating and treating a spectrum of eating disorders and disordered eating. She has conducted research in the areas of amenorrhea, osteoporosis, and metabolism on adolescents with eating disorders and her publications can be found here. Wendy is part of the Equip Clinical Advisory Board. She has been on the Clinical Advisory Board of Project HEAL, a nonprofit organization created to aid in the funding for the treatment of eating disorders, since it was created in 2008. Wendy received her B.S. in dietetics/nutritional sciences from Cornell University. She earned her Master’s Degree in Nutrition Education at Teacher’s College at Columbia University where she also completed her dietetic internship.

TREATMENT PHILOSOPHY: Wendy utilizes a non-diet, Health at Every Size® approach in her practice. She and her colleague Casey Crosbie created the innovative approach to refeeding called the “Plate-by-Plate Approach®,” a no-numbers, visual approach which she uses with her clients.

HER BOOKS :  “How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder”:

FEES: Cash, Credit Card, Personal Checks, Zelle, electronic payment methods. Will bill on behalf of patient.