Working with Negative Body Image, Chronic Dieting, and Emotional Eating: An Emotion Focused Approach with Dr. Amanda Stillar, Ph.D., Psychologist

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.

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This webinar has been accredited by the Ontario Psychological Association