Dates:Â February 26th and 27th, 2025
Time: 11:00AM – 2:15PM
(Eastern Standard Time)
Live via Zoom
How many of your clients have an unhealthy relationship with food or negative body image?
Clients often present to therapy with concerns related to unhealthy eating habits or a preoccupation with their appearance. This might include behaviors such as emotional eating, chronic dieting, bingeing, purging, or distress related to body shape, size, or weight. These issues may be the main reason for seeking therapy or they may surface during the therapeutic process. Clients are typically unaware of how these unhealthy and problematic behaviors are connected to deeper, underlying emotional issues.
Often, therapists do not fully understand and consequently do not assess these concerns, despite their significant impact on clients’ presenting problems, health, and emotional well-being. In this workshop, you will learn to identify and assess the deeper emotional issues that drive superficial unhealthy behaviours using an emotion focused and trauma-informed perspective. You will learn emotion-focused interventions to help clients increase emotional awareness, improve emotional self-efficacy, resolve emotional processing difficulties, and address the deeper wounds beneath unhealthy eating patterns and body image concerns.
This workshop is designed for mental health professionals from any training background and at any stage of their career. Video-recorded clips of real therapy sessions will be used to illustrate key principles and interventions.
OBJECTIVES
Through this workshop, participants will learn how to:
- Reflect on their own biased beliefs that can affect the therapeutic process
- Recognize and challenge widespread misunderstandings regarding eating habits with their clients
- Conceptualize how unhealthy eating is maintained because it regulates painful emotions.
- Understand and assess deeper emotional factors underlying body image issues and unhealthy eating
- Implement emotion-focused interventions to help clients increase emotional awareness and improve emotional self-efficacy.
- Resolve emotional processing difficulties that contribute to unhealthy eating patterns and body image concerns.
- Target and help clients heal deeper emotional wounds underlying unhealthy eating behaviors and body image issues.
CE CREDITS
Ontario Psychological Association (OPA) – Pending Approval
Medical Psychotherapy Association of Canada (MDPAC) – 5.5 Credits
Ontario Association of Mental Health Practitioners (OAMHP) – 5.5 Credits
Participation in this workshop allows OAMHP members to apply 5.5 hours (CECs) towards their required continuing education hours. OAMHP’s review of the general content of this workshop recognizes the learning objectives meet and support the criteria (1) for best known practice in continuing education and (2) for educational requirements for mental health professionals.
RATES
Early Registration: $195 (+ applicable taxes)
Early Registration Rate ends January 29th, 2025
Regular Admission: $220 (+ applicable taxes)
Student Rate: $150 (+ applicable taxes)Â Students are eligible for a student rate. Please sign up here to access student benefits.
