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Trauma-Related Emotional Eating

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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.

Here's What You'll Learn


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

Everything You're Getting


  • Full Day of live video content
  • Up to 6.25 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion

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Meet Your Experts


Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, CCTP-II

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Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, CCTP-II, is the Founder of Bodywise. She is the President of the Board of the Center for Eating Disorders in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and co-founder of Pershing Consulting, LLC, which offers training to clinicians treating BED and trauma worldwide. She is also the Co-Founder of the Eating Disorders Education Institute (EDEI), a national training program for eating disorder professionals.  

 

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, uniquely designed to heal the deeper issues that drive binge behaviors. Her approach integrates a non-diet body empowerment philosophy, helping clients create lasting change with food and body image. Amy also specializes in working with neurodivergence and BED.  

 

Amy lectures and teaches internationally on the treatment of BED for professional and lay communities; she has been featured on radio, podcast, and television programs around the world, speaking about BED treatment and recovery, relapse prevention, weight stigma, and a non-diet approach for eating and movement. She is the Past Chair of the Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA), and winner of BEDA’s Pioneer in Clinical Advocacy award. She is the author of the book Binge Eating Disorder: The Journey to Recovery and Beyond and The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook, with co-authors Judith Matz and Christy Harrison. 
 

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Amy Pershing is the founding director of Bodywise and has an employment relationship with 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 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.

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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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Media Type:
Live Webinar
Also Available:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
LWC058970
Brochure Code:
PWZ96409
Duration:
Full Day

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