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Accredited Exercise Physiologists (AEP) are health professionals that specialise in using exercise to help manage and prevent chronic disease and injury. AEPs complete a four-year university degree and are trained in helping their clients achieve behaviour change that improves their long-term health outcomes. AEPs are trained to work with a large range of people including folk with neurological, respiratory, metabolic, musculoskeletal, and psychological conditions

Exercise physiologists are allied health professionals, they have:
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- Completed a four-year university degree.
- Often work in clinical, hospital, sports, or gym settings.
- Been trained to manage the administration and prescription of exercise for managing chronic diseases, mental health, persisting pain as well as overall health and wellness.
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Personal trainers are fitness professionals, they have:

- A certification 3 & 4 in fitness from TAFE or the equivalent, often takes 6 months to complete.
- Often work in gyms and fitness centers
- Primarily trained to help the general population (people without disease and injury) reach their fitness goals (i.e getting their first push-up).
- They are not trained to work with people who have chronic medical conditions.

There are three main areas that eating disorders generally effect - your relationship with exercise, relationship with food, and your mind.
Accredited exercise physiologist’s (AEPs) role is to address your relationship with movement and prescribe a safe level of exercise that doesn't interfere with recovery but allows the individual to gain the health benefits associated with movement. AEPs also help clients address the underlying unhelpful beliefs/habits around exercise that contribute to the ED pathology and work towards improving their overall relationship with exercise.  Engaging in dysfunctional exercise habits driven by the ED is associated with an increased risk of relapse, poorer treatment outcomes and worsening of psychopathologies. Making dysfunctional exercise habits a very important area of ED treatment.