EMDR for Body Image Concerns and Disordered Eating
Lori Kucharski, PhD, LMFT-S, LPC, CEDS-S (she/her) | Click here for information about Lori Kucharski
This session will offer recommendations for modifying all 8 phases of EMDR treatment for clients with body image concerns and disordered eating, including use of sensitive terminology and the "do's and don'ts" in treatment. Learn how to:
This session will offer recommendations for modifying all 8 phases of EMDR treatment for clients with body image concerns and disordered eating, including use of sensitive terminology and the "do's and don'ts" in treatment. Learn how to:
- Assist your clients with integrating somatic awareness, self-nurturing practices, wellness principles, and cultural understanding into their recovery
- Work collaboratively with medical providers while providing EMDR
Treating the Whole Person: A Transdiagnostic CBT Approach to the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Rebecca Berman, LCSW-C, LCSW, MLSP, CEDS-S (she/her) | Click here for information about Rebecca Berman
Emotional avoidance is a distinguishing feature of eating disorders as well as many other clinical conditions, including anxiety and depression, which often co-occur with disordered eating and body image concerns. In this session, you will learn:
Emotional avoidance is a distinguishing feature of eating disorders as well as many other clinical conditions, including anxiety and depression, which often co-occur with disordered eating and body image concerns. In this session, you will learn:
- How to target multiple clinical problems at once
- Techniques for building emotional awareness, tolerance, and acceptance for your clients
Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders
Tom Wooldridge, PsyD, ABPP, CEDS-S (he/him) | Click here for information about Tom Wooldridge
In a field that increasingly emphasizes rapid symptom reduction, treatment providers risk neglecting less overt, and less easily measurable, aspects of the patient's experience. In this session focused on psychoanalytic treatment of eating disorders, you will:
In a field that increasingly emphasizes rapid symptom reduction, treatment providers risk neglecting less overt, and less easily measurable, aspects of the patient's experience. In this session focused on psychoanalytic treatment of eating disorders, you will:
- Learn the latest thinking about how a psychoanalytic approach can increase understanding of the complex emotional experience of eating disorders
- Discover how to assist your clients in contending with an internal landscape marked by isolation, loneliness, shame, guilt, embarrassment, and hopelessness
Body Image and Sexuality: Befriending the Sexual Self After Trauma
Angela Gunn, LCSW, CST (she/they) | Click here for information about Angela Gunn
Sexual trauma can set off body hatred and create a distancing from the body, particularly the sexual body, in order to feel safe again. In this session, you will discover:
Sexual trauma can set off body hatred and create a distancing from the body, particularly the sexual body, in order to feel safe again. In this session, you will discover:
- The sociocultural and neurobiological factors affecting your clients' relationships with their bodies after sexual trauma
- Tools to reduce client shame and self-blame so they can befriend their sexual bodies, and relational and social strategies to help clients practice safe intimacy again
A Guide to Integrating Spirituality into Psychotherapy for Eating Disorders and Body Image Concerns
Michael E. Berrett, PhD (he/him) | Click here for information about Michael E. Berrett
Integrating spirituality into psychotherapy is especially important for clients suffering eating disorders and body image concerns, the hallmark of which is disconnection from one's true identity. Learn how attending to "the spiritual" need not detract from nor replace evidence-based clinical interventions:
Integrating spirituality into psychotherapy is especially important for clients suffering eating disorders and body image concerns, the hallmark of which is disconnection from one's true identity. Learn how attending to "the spiritual" need not detract from nor replace evidence-based clinical interventions:
- Develop spiritually inclusive interventions that can be implemented in session for clients with eating disorders and body image concerns
- Evaluate ethical issues related to the use of spiritual interventions in treatment
Health at Every Size®: A Weight-inclusive Paradigm for Eating Disorders Treatment, Body Image Issues, Recovery, and Harm-Reduction
Chevese Turner, internationally-recognized activist and advocate, speaker, policy influencer and movement-builder | Click here for information about Chevese Turner
This presentation will clarify the tenets of Health at Every Size (HAES)™ and discuss how and why they can be helpful for individuals healing from eating disorders and related body image issues as well as from the trauma of weight stigma. You will learn:
This presentation will clarify the tenets of Health at Every Size (HAES)™ and discuss how and why they can be helpful for individuals healing from eating disorders and related body image issues as well as from the trauma of weight stigma. You will learn:
- The importance of recognizing healthism along with the limitations of HAES™ in communities facing oppression(s)
- Harm reduction techniques that can break down barriers to care
Autism and Eating Disorders: Understanding Co-Occcurence Issues with Food and Body Image
Kim Clairy, OTR/L (she/her), Autism advocate, ED survivor, and educational speaker | {1575952_Kim_ClairyWithBio}
Kim Clairy, OTR/L, developed her passion for educating clinicians through her own personal experience navigating a healthcare system unfamiliar with adult autism and sensory processing disorder. She learned to break through many personal and societal barriers and develops trainings to challenge clinicians to look outside the box when working with clients struggling with eating and food related difficulties.
In an interview with Marcella Raimondo, PhD, MPH, Kim Clairy talks about her lived experience with autism, sensory processing dysfunction, and eating disorders. Get insight into:
Kim Clairy, OTR/L, developed her passion for educating clinicians through her own personal experience navigating a healthcare system unfamiliar with adult autism and sensory processing disorder. She learned to break through many personal and societal barriers and develops trainings to challenge clinicians to look outside the box when working with clients struggling with eating and food related difficulties.
In an interview with Marcella Raimondo, PhD, MPH, Kim Clairy talks about her lived experience with autism, sensory processing dysfunction, and eating disorders. Get insight into:
- How sensory processing issues can impact body image and ways that eating disorder behaviors can serve a self-regulating function in individuals with autism
- How eating disorder treatment can be more inclusive for individuals with autism