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Bridging the Gap: How Virtual Supports & Extends Higher Levels of Care

Tara Brass, MD, CEDS
Tiffany King, MBA
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Description

As eating disorder care increasingly moves across locations, virtual treatment has become a critical bridge — helping clients step down safely from inpatient, residential, and in-person PHP care while extending specialized, evidence-based treatment to those who cannot reach it in person. This presentation examines the current 2026 regulatory landscape, the benefits and challenges of virtual eating disorder treatment, and concrete best practices for delivering safe, engaging, and clinically effective care in a virtual setting. Drawing on recent research and frontline clinical experience, presenters will demonstrate how virtual programming can both support transitions from — and extend the reach of — those needing higher levels of care.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe at least three evidence-based strategies for engaging and retaining eating disorder clients in virtual higher levels of care from the first day of treatment — including unified multidisciplinary care-team engagement and early family/support involvement — to reduce premature discharge.

  • Apply a harm-reduction framework to level-of-care decision-making in virtual treatment — including remote safety assessment, behavioral treatment agreements, and criteria for stepping clients up to, or safely bridging down from, higher levels of care.

  • Evaluate outcome data on the effectiveness of virtual eating disorder treatment across ages, symptom measures, and levels of care, and identify how virtual programming extends access to specialized care (e.g., ARFID, family-based treatment) beyond geographic limits.

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to equip clinicians and program leaders with an up-to-date understanding of how virtual care supports and extends higher levels of eating disorder treatment, and to provide practical, evidence-informed strategies for delivering safe and effective virtual programming across the continuum of care.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Dietitian
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Nurse
  • Nutritionist
  • Physician
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Tara Brass, MD, CEDS
Tiffany King, MBA
Tiffany King is the VP of Virtual Programs at Monte Nido where she oversees the adolescent and adult virtual IOP and PHP offerings and specialties. Prior to joining Monte Nido, Tiffany worked at Embark Behavioral Health, where she worked in financial operations and as the VP of Virtual. Tiffany has over 15 years of experience in financial operations, strategy, start-up, and operational leadership roles. She started her career in financial and audit risk consulting at Deloitte, assisting companies in SOX compliance, finance transformation and process optimization, most notably in the technology industry. She also led Twitter into public company status through spearheading internal financial process compliance and then transitioned to the Corporate Development M&A Team, leading the due diligence risk assessment and integration of the company’s largest acquisition at nearly $500 million. Tiffany has an undergraduate degree from UC San Diego and a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis on Finance and Management from San Diego State University. Tiffany resides in Arizona, and also keeps busy with her three kids and husband who enjoy sports, outdoor activities, and picking up new hobbies.

Financially Sponsored By

  • Monte Nido