Lori Kucharski – Appearing Healthy: Orthorexia and Body Image

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Speaker: Lori Kucharski, PhD, LMFT-S, LPC, CEDS-S

Duration: 1 Hour 02 Minutes

Format: Audio and Video

Copyright: Dec 05, 2023  

Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description

How healthy is too healthy? When your clients are making “good” food choices, that’s good… right? In this session, Lori Kucharski, PhD, LMFT-S, LPC, CEDS-C, will show you how to recognize when your clients’ care for their bodies actually becomes harmful. You’ll learn about how to spot orthorexia, a condition characterized by preoccupation with healthy eating, and how to intervene before your client develops additional eating disorders and body image issues. 

Speaker

Lori Kucharski, PhD, LMFT-S, LPC, CEDS-S, is a licensed therapist practicing since 2004 in residential treatment facilities, crisis and outpatient mental health, and private practice. She owns and operates a training, consulting, supervision, and clinical practice. She is a Certified EMDR Therapist, Approved Consultant, and Training/Credit Provider as well as an AAMFT-Approved Supervisor, a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist/Supervisor, and the EMDR regional network coordinator for Colorado Springs, CO. She taught MFT and Counseling courses in graduate programs and specializes in complex trauma, attachment, disordered eating, dissociation, and body image with all ages from a systems perspective. She presents locally and nationally on these topics and advocates for ending social and cultural stigma and discrimination around body size, ability, and appearance.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Lori Kucharski has an employment relationship with the EMDR Center of the Pikes Peak Region. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Lori Kucharski is a member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the Colorado Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, EMDRIA, and the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals.

Objectives

1. Conduct an assessment for orthorexia in clients. 
2. Evaluate when to support clients’ health-focused eating goals without increasing risk for eating disordered behavior. 
3. Apply the tri-phasic model for treating eating disorders. 

Outline

• Orthorexia – why preoccupation with healthy eating can be unhealthy 
• Warning signs to watch for 
• Top questions and assessment tools to uncover disordered eating, including EDE-Q 
• Tri-phasic model of eating disorder treatment  
• The importance of the treatment team approach 
• Ethical and practice issues: determine level of care, health goals versus disordered behavior, the role of the DSM 
• Case study 
• Limitations of the research and potential risks 

Target Audience

• Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
• Marriage & Family
• Therapists
• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Social Workers

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