Rethink the Foundations: Body Trust, Bias, and the Limits of Traditional Models
- Key terminology and paradigm shifts in body image work
- Weight-Inclusive Models of Care: Evidence-based support for moving beyond weight-centric practices
- Bobbie Harro’s Cycle of Socialization and Niva Piran’s Developmental Theory of Embodiment
- Understand anti-fat bias: how it shapes clinical practice and client experience
- The overlap between intentional weight loss and disordered eating
- Navigate scope of practice when discussing food, nutrition, and body image
- Risks, limitations and ethical considerations
Clinical Tools for Navigating Food, Weight, and Body Talk
- How to apply the Body Trust Framework and foster weight-inclusive, non-stigmatizing care
- Strateiges to explore the Cycle of Coping in diet culture and help clients make sense of their behaviors
- Interventions for navigating “bad body days” and reducing distress from persistent “food noise”
- Tools to support clients through body grief and build size acceptance with clinical sensitivity
- Strategies to reframe conversations about “health,” wellness, and control in ways that honor client autonomy and lived experience
Help without Harming
- Self-reflection: Explore your own body story as a provider
- Create size-inclusive clinical spaces (language, environment, policies)
- Ethically responding to client comments about weight, body changes, aging, and chronic illness
- Clinical considerations around GLP-1 agonists (Ozempic, Mounjaro, etc.) in the context of eating disorders and body trust
Clinical Case Studies & Application
- 43-year-old male with restrictive eating and prior BED diagnosis, considering GLP-1 medication
- 32-year-old female with chronic health issues and AAN, often receives dietary advice that worsens ED symptoms
- 27-year-old trans man with restrictive eating and compulsive exercise
- 53-year-old woman with trauma history and “compulsive overeating,” seeking ED treatment
Bring It Home: How to Practice Body Trust-Informed Therapy with Confidence and Care
- Integration tools to assess your current clinical approach and identify weight-centric areas of improvement
- Strategies for updating intake forms, language, and policies to reflect a weight-inclusive stance
- Self-reflection prompts to clarify your body story and how it shapes therapeutic relationships
- Guidance on handling common clinical dilemmas (e.g., client weight loss goals, medical referrals, family pressure)
- Resources for continued learning and supervision to support sustainable, ethical growth
- Next-step planning: Map out one change you’ll make this week, one conversation you’ll have, and one resource you’ll explore


