TBT-S Trainers

Dr. Laura Hill is Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at The Ohio State University. Dr. Hill is one of the original founders of the Academy for Eating Disorders, and was a TED talk speaker on “Eating Disorders from the Inside Out. She is a co-founder of the TBT-S Training Institute and has researched and lectured on ED for over 40 years.

  Dr. Christina Wierenga is a Professor, Clinical Neuropsychologist and Co-Director of the Research Program at the UCSD Eating Disorders Center. She is an expert in the neurobiology of eating disorders, in particular related to the neural circuitry supporting cognition and behavior. She conducts neuroimaging and neuropsychological research examining the brain basis of disordered eating, with an emphasis on key constructs that contribute to altered motivation to eat, including cognitive control, reward processing, learning, and interoception. She is also heavily involved in treatment development efforts for eating disorders guided by a neurobiological understanding of temperament-based behavior, as well as treatment outcome studies. Through close collaboration with Drs. Peck and Hill, she has developed and continues to test a Temperament-Based Therapy with Support (TBT-S) approach for adolescents and adults with eating disorders.

  Dr. Peck is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). She has led the development and implementation of the Temperament-Based Therapy (TBT-S) approaches for adolescents and young adults at UCSD in collaboration with Dr.’s Hill and Wierenga. Throughout her career, her work has focused on developing and testing novel interventions for eating disorders, with a focus on targeting temperament and neurobiology in innovative treatment formats.  Dr. Peck was the director of the Intensive Family Treatment Program at the UCSD Eating Disorder Treatment and Research Center for a decade, which served as a clinical treatment lab to test and refine TBT-S approaches. Dr. Peck has a subspecialty in child and adolescent mental health and systemic therapies. She is an expert in family-supported treatments and multi-family treatment approaches. She is devoted to improving treatment possibilities for those with eating disorders and has also been involved in clinical research developing and testing other innovative treatment approaches for eating disorders, including psychedelic treatments. 

Dr. Stedal is a licensed clinical psychologist and senior researcher in eating disorders at . She has  researched neurocognitive functioning in anorexia nervosa since 2008. She is a senior researcher and psychologist at Oslo University Hospital, Division of Mental Health and   Addiction, Centre for National and Regional Mental Health Services, Regional,  Department for Eating Disorders. Dr. Stedal is a TBT-S Training Institute Partner.    

In 2017, Dr. Stedal initiated TBT-S in Norway and facilitates its continued adoption to Scandinavia. In 2024 she has received a Norwegian government grant for a multisite RCT to study the efficacy of TBT-S. 

She  has provided TBT-S training and  TBT-S  adult 5-day treatment programs since 2018 in Oslo.

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Dr. Crotty has opened the first private TBT-S clinic that offers 5-Day TBT-S Treatment Programs for adolescents and adults. It is called "Brain Based Therapy NW."  Research shows that short-term intensive treatment approaches bring more effective outcomes than weekly outpatient therapy. Her treatment program is offered to augment ongoing eating disorder therapies. Dr. Crotty's experience in the clinical applications of TBT-S has positioned her to become an excellent trainer for professionals who want trained in TBT-S to fill in the gaps in their eating disorder treatment approaches. She has  worked in the field of eating disorders since 2009. o

Jasmin is a mental health occupational therapist and eating disorder specialist. As the first certified trainer for Temperament-Based Therapy with Support (TBT-S) in Australasia, Jasmin has played a pioneering role in implementing TBT-S across Victoria’s healthcare landscape. She is also the principal investigator of Australia’s first research study on TBT-S. Her research is focused on improving treatment outcomes for individuals with eating disorders. Jasmin continues to lead initiatives that influence both clinical practice and service development across Australia.

Maria Tsiaka, BA, PhD is a psychologist, systemic family-therapist and Founder and Executive Director of the Hellenic Center for Eating Disorders, a profit support and outpatient treatment facility established in 2006 in Athens, Greece. She has been working on the field of eating disorders since 1997.

 She has studied and practiced the cognitive interpersonal maintenance model on Greek families and investigated its applicability on bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder in collaboration with Professor Janet Treasure, Maudsley, London, England.bio