An important part of recovering from an eating disorder is changing one’s relationship with eating and food. This part of treatment at EDCMT is guided by a nutrition counselor, also known as a Registered Dietitian (RD). A major aspect of finding comfort with food and freeing oneself from an abusive or destructive relationship with eating is establishing a relationship with a nutrition counselor, also known as a Registered Dietitian (RD). Where psychotherapy helps to uncovers the drives that hold the eating disorder in place; a nutritionist’s role is to help your family member you figure out a relationship with food (moving beyond their fear of food and eating toward “safe foods” and negotiating “forbidden foods”). This is the path towards intuitive eating; eating according to being attuned to appetite. This means re-learning and responding appropriately to hunger cues, rather than eating what you think you ought to eat based on how much you ate earlier on or how much or how little you worked out. This previous meals or exercise schedules. Nutrition counseling is not about learning to eat “healthy,” but about understanding how food fuels the body and mind.it is about the dynamics of eating of which health, both psychic and physical, are the aim.