Sydney Williams has worked in the field of eating disorders since 2008 and is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Consultant (CEDS-C) as well as a Certified EMDR Therapist and Consultant-in-Training (CIT). Her clinical expertise spans eating disorders, body image, trauma, LGBTQIA+ affirming care, neurodivergence, and OCD.

Before entering private practice, Sydney spent a decade at one of the nation’s largest eating disorder treatment centers, where she served as the Residential Clinical Director for six years. In that role, she oversaw all therapist trainings and provided supervision and mentorship to new clinicians, interns, and associate-level therapists—helping shape a generation of compassionate and capable providers.

Sydney now leads a small group practice in American Fork, Utah, dedicated to trauma-informed, inclusive, and evidence-based care for individuals navigating eating disorders and related concerns.

Together with her colleague and co-founder, Kathy Spencer, Sydney co-created The Eating Disorder Consultants and the Integrated Compassionate Approach (ICA) framework. After years of witnessing the gap in accessible, quality training for therapists, Sydney and Kathy developed two 12-CEU trainings designed to teach clinicians how to treat eating disorders from the ground up. Their mission is simple but bold: to make eating disorder education accessible to all therapists—because eating disorder treatment is general mental health treatment.

Sydney regularly presents at national conferences, bringing her signature warmth, humor, and deep clinical insight to help professionals integrate compassion, curiosity, and attunement into their practice. She believes that when clinicians are equipped to understand eating disorders, they are better able to help all clients heal their relationship with food, body, and self.