Meet the Committee Members
Dr. Kim Claudat, PhD
PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor
Dr. Kim Claudat is an Associate Clinical Professor and Director of Adult Services at UC San Diego Health Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research. Her clinical and research interests focus on the connection between eating disorders and emotion regulation difficulties, particularly as this relates to commonly co-occurring disorders such as PTSD and Substance Use Disorders.
She has received specialized training in Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD (CPT), DBT Prolonged Exposure for PTSD (DBT-PE), and DBT for Substance Use Disorders (DBT-SUD). She has experience providing evidence-based treatments to children, adolescents, adults, and their families, with a range of presenting psychiatric problems across various treatment settings.
Dr. Anita Federici
PhD, CPsych FAED
Dr. Anita Federici is a Clinical Psychologist and the Owner of The Centre for Psychology and Emotion Regulation. She serves an Adjunct Faculty position at York University and is a distinguished Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED). From 2019 - 2022, Anita served as the elected Co-Chair for the Suicide and DBT Special Interest Group (SIG) for the AED and currently sits on the SIG Oversight Committee.
Anita has had a considerable impact on the field through her leadership, advocacy work, and expertise. To date, she has provided more than 375 lectures, workshops, and invited talks on eating disorders, MED-DBT, compassionate care for complex needs, and developing differential care pathways that integrate biotemperament-based approaches, experts-by-experience, and ethical care. She has developed a robust training program, a wide network of allied health professionals, and a treatment centre in an underserved and rural region of Ontario. Her passion for inspiring and invigorating hope for clients and clinicians is at the heart of her work.
Known for her engaging and authentic style of training, Anita has become a highly sought-after consultant. She works extensively with hospitals and community organizations nationally and internationally offering team training, implementation support, and program development with a special focus on creating differential care pathways for clients who do not respond to traditional treatment approaches. Her work has been presented at international conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals and invited book chapters.
Shelly Hindle
M.A., PGDipClinPsy., B.A., MNZCCP
Shelly Hindle (she/her) is a Clinical Psychologist in New Zealand with over 20 years’ experience in public health settings and has a private consultancy practice.
As the clinical lead of a comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) programme for adults within a NZ specialist eating disorder service, Shelly has contributed to numerous initiatives involving both eating disorders and DBT. Her work spans various settings, including adolescent and adult treatment, schools and residential/day-programme settings and she is actively involved in related research projects.
Shelly is a DBT trainer for reputable national and international training organizations and provides MED-DBT training for Australasia and frequently presents at global conferences. Her professional interests focus on innovative implementation projects with a particular emphasis on adaptations of DBT, such as for eating disorders, adolescents, DBT-Prolonged Exposure, and school-based applications.
Shelly enjoys taking on challenging projects and roles involving innovation and development of existing evidence based treatments, relating to her areas of specialty, catering toward populations presenting with complex and high-risk problems.
Charlotte Thomas
LCSW, LISCW
Charlotte Thomas is a Clinical Social Worker licensed to practice in California, Oregon and Washington with more than fifteen years of experience in the field of psychotherapy. She is a Certified DBT Clinician™ through the Linehan Board of Certification. Charlotte is a graduate of Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University with a Masters in Social Work, and Davidson College with a Bachelors in Psychology and a Concentration in Neuroscience. Charlotte holds expertise in using Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy to treat individuals experiencing forms of anxiety, depression, trauma, substance abuse, and borderline personality disorder and with specialization in eating disorders.
She is particularly passionate about working with complex, multi-diagnostic clients and those who have already attempted multiple treatment episodes without long-standing improvement. Charlotte is currently serving as Co-Chair of the DBT SIG (Special Interest Group) of the Academy of Eating Disorders. Charlotte uses a unique blend of radical genuineness, warmth, and empathy to help her therapy and consultation clients generate change and build towards a life worth living.
