Ellyn satter biography of albert

MS, RD, CICSW, BCD

Ellyn Satter is a Registered Dietitian, Family Therapist, and internationally recognized authority on eating and feeding. In her presentations, books, videos, teaching materials, articles, and social media, Satter shares the wisdom of her 50 years’ experience and research in helping with eating and feeding.

Ellyn pioneered the Satter Eating Competence Model (ecSatter) and the Satter Feeding Dynamics Model (fdSatter) and created the Division of Responsibility in Feeding (sDOR), which is the gold standard for feeding children.

In her transformative, practical, theoretically sound, and evidence-based conceptualizations of eating and feeding, Satter emphasizes competency rather than deficiency, providing rather than depriving, and trust rather than control.

During her earlier professional years, Ellyn specialized in psychodynamic psychotherapy, in the symptom management of eating disorders, and ran Ellyn Satter Associates, which provided resources for profession