As part of our Lecture Series, we are honored to host a virtual Zoom event featuring a presentation by Katie Jeffrey, MS, RDN, CSSD, MB-EAT-QI, LDN, and Lissette Cortes, Psy.D. CEDS, on Tuesday, November 18, 2025, at 7:00pm.
Ms. Jeffrey and Dr. Cortes will be discussing the topic of OCD and eating disorders or food fears/eating challenges related to OCD.
Katie Jeffrey is a registered dietitian nutritionist licensed in CT, FL, NC and RI. She works with adolescents and adults and specializes in eating disorders, co-existing food fears and anxiety related to OCD, and in performance nutrition. She is passionate about working with athletes. She incorporates mindful and intuitive eating practices, and she draws from therapy techniques as they relate to nutrition, including ACT, trauma-informed care, and ERP.
Dr. Lissette Cortes is a licensed psychologist, Certified Eating Disorders Specialist and PsyPact® provider able to treat individuals in all PSYPACT® states. She treats adolescents and adults. She specializes in the treatment of co-morbid OCD and Eating Disorders. She also treats anxiety disorders, BDD, BFRBs, tics, and Tourette‘s. Dr. Cortes is trained in CBIT for the treatment for Tourette’s and in SPACE for parenting interventions. She practices from a CBT approach using ERP and implementing ACT principles.
Katie and Lissette are the co-authors of the workbook, “The OCD Workbook for Food and Eating Fears: Overcome Obsessive Thoughts and Compulsions Using an Integrative CBT and Intuitive Eating Approach,” which will be published by New Harbinger in Spring 2026.
Their website is compassionateinst.com.
Katie’s website is katiejeffreyllc.com.
To register for this event, go to https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/otT29kRuR7-5Io7EjVY5AQ.