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Embodied Recovery Institute

Experiential training for mental health and wellness providers She is trained in Somatic Experiencing and is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS).

Embodied Recovery Institute provides experiential training for mental health and wellness professionals, to support them in their care for patients with eating disorders. Rachel Lewis-Marlow (co-founder) is a somatically integrative psychotherapist, dually licensed in counseling and therapeutic massage and bodywork. She is a Certified Advanced Practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and has advanced training and 25 + years of experience in diverse somatic therapies

Paula Scatoloni (co-founder) is a somatic psychotherapist trained in North Carolina.

03/21/2026

Our trainings explores why these protective eating and body adaptations exist, and how to support clients to transform them through bottom-up resourcing.

Through participatory embodiment work, participants learn how to:

• Recognize survival-driven patterns in clients
• Support regulation and actions of eating
• Build the relational container for deeper embodiment
• Work skillfully with resistance, shutdown, and overwhelm

If you’re ready to learn somatic maps and models for working with eating disorders, step into deeper personal embodiment work that enhances effective clinical presence, and join a supportive, relational learning environment in which to explore the edges of your comfort zone, our Tier 1 and Tier 2 trainings could be for you!

Link in bio to learn more about our 2026 in-person and online offerings.

03/13/2026

Primitive reflexes and cellular tone form the earliest architecture for how we relate—to our bodies, to caregivers, and to the world.

When these foundational patterns are unintegrated, they can disrupt regulation, interoception, and capacity to eat.

In our Tier 2 training, Growing Seeds of Attachment, you will explore how early movement patterns shape the capacity to receive food, care, and connection.

This work is subtle. Precise. Profoundly developmental.
And highly relevant to eating disorder recovery.

✨ Growing Seeds of Attachment
May 28-31, 2026 | Chapel Hill, NC

A 4-day experiential training, integrating Body-Mind Centering and ERED for clinicians and allied professionals who have completed Tier 2: Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment 🙇‍♀️ link in bio to register 🔗

03/09/2026

We’re proud to spotlight Kimberly Clairy, MS, OTR/L, Tier II Faculty for Coming to Our Senses about Eating Disorders Treatment 📣

Kimberly Clairy, MS, OTR/L—occupational therapist, autism advocate, and autistic adult—has dedicated her work to educating clinicians about the intersection of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sensory Processing Disorder, and eating disorders.

This March, her and her husband are offering a free virtual series, What’s Brewing, on marriage, advocacy, and lived experience. Join them on March 3, 17, and 31, 8-9am EST 🩵

Register for What’s Brewing here: https://ocali.org/whats-brewing-conversation-on-marriage-autism-and-life

She’s also launched a new YouTube channel where she answers real-world questions about autism and sensory processing from both clinical and lived perspectives. Don’t forget to subscribe! 🎯

And in October, she joins us in Chapel Hill to co-facilitate Coming to Our Senses About Eating Disorders Treatment 👏
Oct 22–25, 2026

A 4-day experiential workshop exploring how sensory processing patterns shape food relationships, body perception, and treatment outcomes.

Early Bird discount through May 31. Link in bio to register.

Learn from someone who bridges lived experience and clinical practice.

03/06/2026

Growing Seeds of Attachment is an experiential 4-day training examining the body’s earliest and most innate capacity for movement which creates the foundation for the relational cycle of movement: yield, push, reach, grasp, pull.

Co-taught by Rachel Lewis-Marlow and Bob Lehnberg (BMC® Practitioner), this training is designed for clinicians ready to work at a pre-verbal, developmental level.

Participants explore how cellular tone and primitive reflexes establish the foundation for complex volitional movements that support completing Action Cycle stages for nourishing ourselves with food and relationships.

📍 Chapel Hill, NC
🗓 May 28–31, 2026
4 spaces available!
Prerequisite: Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment / Clinical Applications of ERED

03/03/2026

Coming To Our Senses About Eating Disorders Treatment is a training that doesn’t just teach about sensory processing.

It invites you to experience it. Through didactic learning and embodied exploration, participants gain a felt sense of neurodivergent sensory worlds—and how to adapt treatment accordingly.

This is essential knowledge for ethical, attuned eating disorder care.

If you work with eating disorders, neurodivergence, or complex trauma—this training belongs in your foundation.
📍 Chapel Hill, NC
🗓 October 22–25, 2026
✨ Tier 1 · In-person
🎟 Early Bird until May 31
Open to all interested professionals.
No prior ERED training required.

03/02/2026

We’re proud to spotlight Kimberly Clairy, MS, OTR/L: Tier II Faculty for Coming to Our Senses about Eating Disorders Treatment.

Kim brings something rare to the field: Professional OT training and lived experience of autism, SPD, and eating disorder recovery.

This March, she’s hosting a free 3-part virtual conversation series

☕ What’s Brewing: Marriage, Autism, and Life
March 3, 17, 31 | 8–9am ES

An honest look at advocacy, partnership, and living as an autistic adult navigating systems that weren’t built with neurodivergence in mind.

Register here: https://ocali.org/whats-brewing-conversation-on-marriage-autism-and-life 🙏

📺 She’s also launched a new YouTube channel:
where she answers real-world questions about autism and sensory processing from both clinical and lived perspectives. Don’t forget to subscribe!

If you work in eating disorder treatment, trauma therapy, or neurodivergence-informed care, this is a voice worth listening to.

And if you want to go deeper, Kim co-facilitates our 4-day experiential training:

👀 Coming to Our Senses About Eating Disorders Treatment
Oct 22–25, 2026 | Chapel Hill, NC

Link in bio to register. 5% Early Bird discount until May 31.

02/24/2026

Coming to Our Senses About Eating Disorders Treatment invites clinicians to rethink what recovery looks like when we truly understand the sensorimotor and cognitive landscapes of neurodivergent clients.

Co-facilitated by Kim Clairy and Rachel Lewis-Marlow, this in-person blends clinical education with immersive experiential practices—offering a felt-sense of what it’s like to live in a sensory world that doesn’t always align with dominant expectations.

Let’s create a more inclusive path to recovery—one that honors difference, meets clients with compassion, and supports the full expression of embodied healing.

📍 Chapel Hill, NC
🗓 October 22–25, 2026
✨ Tier 1 · In-person
🎟 Early Bird until May 31
Open to all interested professionals.
No prior ERED training required.

02/20/2026

If you’re drawn to early development, somatics, and the origins of connection, Growing Seeds of Attachment training will meet you there.

✨ Growing Seeds of Attachment
May 28-31, 2026 | Chapel Hill, NC
5% Early Bird until March 1

A 4-day experiential training for ED clinicians and allied professionals who have completed Tier 2: Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment

Link in bio to register 💟

02/17/2026

If food and body issues keep showing up in your therapy room—but you don’t quite have the language or framework to meet them—this is where you begin.

Our Intro to ERED offers clear clinical maps, embodied practices, and relational tools that help you meet eating disorder patterns with confidence, curiosity, and coherence.

The ERED approach integrates:
• attachment and developmental patterns
• sensory processing differences
• nervous system regulation
• embodiment and relational presence

So when clients turn to food, restriction, or body control as a survival strategy, you have a map and tools to guide the process of dis-covery and re-covery.

This is what our Introduction to the Embodied Recovery from Eating Disorders (ERED) in Silver Spring, MD, is all about. Join us 6-8 March, 2026. Final chance to register.
No prior ERED training required. Just a willingness to work from the body up.

02/12/2026

Our 3-day, in-person Introduction training in Silver Spring, MD, is designed for therapists, dieticians, somatic practitioners, and frontline providers who want a path through the fear that accompanies challenges with taking in nourishment from food and body distress 🙏

Our Tier 1 training, Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders, introduces you to the somato-psycho-social lens that underpins our entire approach 🔆

You’ll learn:

• The impact of neurological regulation on embodiment
• How attachment and sensory processing shape ED symptoms
• How to decode the the body’s messages
• Foundational somatic and relationally oriented practices you can begin to incorporate into your work that support both you and your clients.

📍 Silver Spring, MD
🗓 March 6–8, 2026
✨ Tier 1 · In-person · Final registration window
🔗 Link in bio to learn more

02/09/2026

Growing Seeds of Attachment is an experiential 4-day training that explores the earliest movement patterns—cellular tone, primitive reflexes, and relational cycles—that shape our capacity to connect, co-regulate, belong, and take in nourishment ✨

By integrating Body-Mind Centering® with the Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED) approach, this training helps providers understand the somatic foundations of:
• Embodiment
• Meeting needs
• Expressing wants
• Intimacy & belonging
• Eating behaviors

Early reflexive patterns form the body’s first language of relationship.

When they’re unintegrated, they can echo through disordered eating patterns, chronic self-protection strategies, and relational challenges.

If you’re a clinician drawn to early development, somatics, or trauma-informed embodied work, this training offers a paradigm shift.

Growing Seeds of Attachment
📍 In-person | May 28-31, 2026 | Chapel Hill, NC
✨ Experiential | Hands-on | Rooted in developmental movement

Prerequisite: Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment or Clinical Applications of ERED: Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment.

Registration now open 🔗 link in bio.

02/02/2026

Connection begins in movement.

Before we learn to talk, self-soothe, or eat independently, our bodies follow an ancient cycle:

Yield → Push → Reach → Grasp → Pull (repeat)

Each is shaped by somatic tone and primitive reflexes.
Each forms the continuous, foundational cycle for how we connect, protect, attach, and nourish ourselves across a lifetime.

Growing Seeds of Attachment invites clinicians into an embodied exploration of this relational movement arc. Having this kind of understanding is both groundwork and groundbreaking.

Through Body-Mind Centering® and ERED’s developmental maps, participants explore:

• Cellular patterns of tone & presence
• Reflexes shaping belonging, boundary, and intimacy
• Hands-to-mouth patterns supporting eating behaviors
• The earliest templates for co-regulation and attachment

By reconnecting to these foundations in your own body, you expand your capacity for precision, presence, and attunement in the therapeutic relationship.

If you’re drawn to early development, somatics, and the origins of connection, this training will meet you there.

✨ Growing Seeds of Attachment
May 28-31, 2026 | Chapel Hill, NC

A 4-day experiential training for ED clinicians and allied professionals who have completed Tier 2: Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment

🔗 Learn more & register via the link in bio

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18 S Circle Drive
Chapel Hill, NC
27516

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+19199728381

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http://www.embodiedrecovery.org/

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Paula Scatoloni and Rachel Lewis-Marlow bring together over four decades of experience in the areas of clinical psychotherapy, bodywork, movement education, and dance. Their combined wisdom and creativity has evolved from a shared vision that emerged during their parallel career paths. Paula, had been working at Duke University while also offering mindful movement classes at Carolina House Treatment Center for years before she began her training in Somatic Experiencing in 2013. While Rachel, a dually-licensed psychotherapist and bodyworker, completed her training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy while working at Carolina House around the same time. Together, Rachel and Paula began to collaborate on an innovative treatment model for eating disorders that brings the body, the very stage where the war is being waged, back into the treatment setting. Drawing from the work of pioneers such as Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Peter Levine, Pat Ogden, and Allan Schore, the Embodied Recovery model weaves together a tapestry of interpersonal neurobiology, traumatology, child development, and sensory processing to explore the connection between eating/digestion and our basic human need for attachment and defense.