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Live Webinar

Trauma-Related Emotional Eating: Effective Interventions for Chronic Overeating and Binge Eating Disorder


Speaker:
Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, CCTP-II
Duration:
Full Day
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR
Product Code:
LWC058970
Brochure Code:
PWZ94488
Media Type:
Live Webinar - Also available: Digital Seminar

Dates

Normal Price:      $324.99 - Now:  $64.99 - Exclusive offer when combined with this live training.

Description

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:

  • Transform your client’s relationship with food, weight, and body image
  • Approach trauma and binge eating disorder from an IFS-informed framework, somatic interventions, and more
  • Integrate the crucial strategies of attuned eating and movement
  • Root your practice in the tenets of weight-neutral recovery

Don’t let trauma continue to wreak havoc on your clients’ experience of eating. Register now to help your traumatized clients forge a peaceful relationship with food.

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



Canada Credit - *

NOTE: Each purchase includes CE credit for one individual (participants in full attendance will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, Q&A, and others.

Continuing Education Information: Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live, interactive webinar only. This webinar is being broadcast live in real-time and must be attended live, in its entirety, in order to earn credit. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether web-based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact info@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


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Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


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Course Level: Intermediate Format: Synchronous distance.  Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

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This course offers 6.0 continuing education contact hours in the Counseling Services skill group. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance. 


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Speaker

Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, CCTP-II's Profile

Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, CCTP-II Related seminars and products

Center for Eating Disorders


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.  

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Amy Pershing is the founding director of Bodywise and has an employment relationship The Center for Eating Disorders. She receives royalties as a published author. Amy Pershing receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Amy Pershing is a member of the National Register of Eating Disorders Professionals and the Academy of Certified Social Workers. She is a founding board member of the Eating Disorders Action Network and The Body Freedom Project. She is the membership chair for the Eating Disorders Professional League of Michigan.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.


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Objectives

  1. Analyze the relationships between stress, trauma, diet culture, weight stigma, and emotional eating.
  2. Utilize trauma-informed assessment questions to gather information about clients’ food history and body image to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
  3. Appraise the relationship between weight and health to help clients identify and challenge internalized weight stigma and body shame.
  4. Analyze the role of dissociation and identity fragmentation in BED.
  5. Employ IFS-informed strategies to assist clients with building affect tolerance and developing self-compassion.
  6. Develop two strategies for navigating counter transference and clinician bias.

Outline

The Spectrum of Overeating: From Emotional Eating to Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
  • Toxic context of diet culture and weight stigma
  • Key facts about the role of trauma and dissociation
  • Why food addiction is a myth
  • Common triggers to bingeing, including therapy and therapists
  • Client voices – what a binge is really like
Assessment: The Right Questions to Get Underneath Eating-Related Shame
  • 5 must-ask intake questions and how to gather food history information
  • Understand clients’ eating behaviors
  • Assess mental health comorbidities and co-occurring medical issues
  • Connection between binge eating and body image
  • Key tenets of weight-neutral recovery
Clinical Strategies to Address Deprivation Mentality and Stop the Diet-Binge Cycle
  • The truth about the relationship between weight and health
  • Challenge cultural messages regarding weight stigma and fat phobia
  • Integrate Health at Every Size (HAES) into your practice
  • The body as wise ally: Using the body as the best source of information
  • 5 steps of attuned eating
  • Attuned movement versus exercise
Effective Interventions: Why You Can Treat BED, Even If You Are Not An Eating Disorders Specialist
  • Why a do-no-harm, strengths-based approach is critical
  • How threats to foundational safety create core beliefs supporting eating disorders
  • Teach clients to know when the trauma narrative has been triggered
  • Help clients step into “Self” with IFSinformed recovery strategies
  • Work directly with fragmented parts to stop the binge-diet cycle
  • Best practice somatic interventions
  • Reinvent body image to help clients feel at home in their bodies
  • Help clients develop connections that build resilience and align with recovery
Clinical Considerations
  • Impact on treatment of the clinician’s relationship with food and body image
  • Tips for modeling body acceptance, respect, and love in your practice
  • Multicultural issues – gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and more
  • Form collaborative relationships with other treating professionals
  • Resources for weight-neutral medical/nutritional care
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Registered Dieticians & Dietetic Technicians
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Psychiatric Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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