The Professional Tele-Training is taught exclusively by the founder and director of IPE, Marc David.

The Training happens exclusively over the telephone, via a conference call.

Classes are a well-planned blend of lecture/presentation, with ample time for questions and group discussion. The content is rich, powerful and abundant.

The TeleTraining is designed to accommodate your busy schedule. If you miss a class – no need to worry. All classes are recorded and available to participants as audio downloads which are yours to keep. In addition, class notes and highlights are emailed to all students after each class.

The workload is determined by you. A recommended reading list is provided for the Training. Students can choose how much or how little they wish to read. Optional homework is given before each class. It is not graded, and again, it’s up to each student to choose how much they wish to do. This makes our Professional Tele-Training a self paced course that you adapt to your needs.

Only in the Professional Certification Training do students of IPE receive a certification as a Dynamic Eating Psychology Coach. However, upon completion of the Professional Tele-Training , you will receive a certificate that acknowledges your commitment, efforts and completion of the Training.

Our program is entirely unique because it teaches about food, eating and health by NOT focusing on nutrition. You will learn extensively about Mind Body Nutrition – however this field isn’t exclusively centered around what to eat, how much to eat, or nutrient needs. That said, we do talk quite often about many different aspects of nutrition. For our Trainings, it is very useful to have basic nutrition knowledge. If you don’t, we can recommend books to read or online courses to take to help get you quickly caught up.

Our programs are not about eating disorders. Our programs focus on the kinds of eating challenges and issues that most people tend to face – weight loss, body image challenges, binge eating, overeating, chronic dieting, stress induced eating, and others. We don’t talk about eating disorders such as anorexia or extreme obesity. These issues affect less than 2% of Americans. Our programs, which focus on Dynamic Eating Psychology, addresses the other 98% of people who don’t have a clinical disorder, but have everyday concerns that are meaningful and important to them.

No previous training in psychology is necessary for students in our programs. Our Trainings feature easy-to-learn and easy-to-practice psychological, counseling and coaching principles.

Great! Our program is especially designed to help take professionals to the next level in working with the psychological and mind body dimensions of the most common food, eating, and nutrition-linked challenges.

Yes. Many of our students intend to use their education personally – for self, family and friends.

Our Trainings are not a substitute for therapy. The Trainings are designed to be personally impactful and meaningful, so students often receive benefits that are life changing and life enhancing.

Our Professional Certification Training is an intensive, deep immersion into all that the Institute has to offer. It is our most robust and signature training. The training totals approximately 300 hours. Upon completion, students are granted a certificate and certified as an Eating Psychology Coach. Our Professional Tele-Training is a highly condensed version of the Professional Certification Training. It’s designed for students who want to study this unique work, however they have considerations around cost, travel, and time that prohibit them from enrolling in the Professional Certification Training.  The Professional Tele-Training consists of 30 classroom hours.  Students are granted a certificate for completing this Training, but are NOT certified as a Certified Eating Psychology Coach.

Our program does not focus on business skills for your practice. We do have some great, recommended experts in these areas that you can work with privately.

Please read about our payment plans here.

Our students are a vibrant community of learners and professionals from all walks of life who are committed to making a difference by being counselors, healers, educators and change agents. Our students are motivated and energetic people who are comfortable learning and growing at the leading edge of psychology, nutrition, and health. In our Professional Tele-Training, you might find yourself sharing the class with a nutritionist, a dietitian, a psychologist, a nurse, a yoga teacher, a dance instructor, a business-person, a mother, a college student, a secretary, a massage therapist, an administrator, and more.

Admission to The Institute for the Psychology of Eating is not determined by any academic prerequisites or previous scholastic achievement. Your enthusiasm for this kind of study is what counts the most. We do like to meet with all our potential students – at least by phone – to help determine whether or not our programs are right for you. Please contact us so we can help you make the best choice for your needs and goals.

There are no age requirements for our programs. Most of our students range between 20 – 70 years of age.

Upon registering for our programs, we will send you a list of the books you will need to purchase for the course.

Practical – the Training is rich in skills, techniques and protocols that build your confidence as a practitioner

Powerful – The work is deep, real, immediate, and goes to the core of what ails our relationships with food, body and health

Soulful – Our whole approach is grounded in the richness of the soul, and the teachings of timeless wisdom traditions that view human affairs from a greater reality

Scientific – The Training is rooted in the kind of mind- body nutrition knowledge that’s clear, concise, and clinically useful

Intuitive – In addition to exercising your cognitive muscles, you’ll honor and strengthen your intuitive ones as well

Transformational – The Training is designed to assist you in your own alchemical growth and healing, which truly qualifies us more deeply as a healer and counselor of others

Very simple – We hope that you want to learn more and serve others in a deeper way and that you think it’s important for those in the health and healing professions to take time for their own professional and personal development. We’d love for you attend as many classes as you can and listen to the recordings of the classes you cannot be present for. We ask that you be willing to consider that your effectiveness as a professional is closely tied to your own personal development and transformation.