Trauma creates fertile ground for issues with food.
When does emotional eating become disordered eating? And when does disordered eating become an eating disorder?
Most clinicians are not aware of the overlap between trauma, emotional eating, and eating disorders, missing key interventions that relieve clients’ suffering.
Your clients may be struggling at mealtimes – and if you aren’t asking about their relationship with food, you may unintentionally be reinforcing their shame.
Really – given the high rates of co-occurrence – if you’re doing trauma work, you likely already have clients with disordered eating, including Binge Eating Disorder (BED), the most common and most underdiagnosed eating disorder.
Not an eating disorders specialist? You can still treat BED! Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, expert BED psychotherapist, will share with you a comprehensive, evidence-based toolkit of successful interventions that will:
Don’t let trauma continue to wreak havoc on your clients’ experience of eating. Purchase now to help your traumatized clients forge a peaceful relationship with food.
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| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
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| Manual - Trauma-Related Emotional Eating (14 MB) | 118 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Attention Registered Dietitians (287.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Attention Registered Dietitians - French (287.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Manual - Trauma-Related Emotional Eating - French (14 MB) | 118 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Attention Registered Dietitians - Italian (287.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Manual - Trauma-Related Emotional Eating - Italian (14 MB) | 118 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Attention Registered Dietitians - German (287.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Manual - Trauma-Related Emotional Eating - German (14 MB) | 118 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Attention Registered Dietitians - Spanish (287.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Manual - Trauma-Related Emotional Eating - Spanish (14 MB) | 118 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, CCTP-II, is the founding director of Bodywise, the first BED-specific treatment program in the United States, and president of the Board of the Center for Eating Disorders in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is the founder of Pershing Consulting, which offers training to clinicians treating BED and trauma worldwide. Amy is also the co-founder of “Attune”, an online coaching program for attuned eating and recovery support.
Amy is an internationally known leader in the development of treatment paradigms for BED, and one of the first clinicians to specialize in BED treatment. Based on 35 years of clinical experience, Amy has pioneered an approach to BED recovery that is strengths-based, and trauma informed, incorporating Internal Family Systems (IFS) and body-based techniques to heal the deeper issues that drive binge behaviors. Her approach integrates a non-diet body autonomy philosophy, helping clients create lasting change with food and body image. She is the author of the book Binge Eating Disorder: The Journey to Recovery and Beyond and Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Bingeing and Body Image: A Trauma-Informed Workbook, with co-authors Judith Matz and Christy Harrison. She also offers a variety of trainings on BED treatment through PESI. Amy maintains her clinical practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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