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Exploring the Essential Features of “Lori Kucharski & Eric Gentry – Treat Disordered Eating & Trauma with CBT, ACT & More: A Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training Course – PESI”
Eating disorders are rarely about food. They’re often about underlying trauma.
Trauma from sexual abuse, childhood neglect, and other horrific experiences lead your clients to ruminate on thoughts like, “I hate my body, I’ll never look good enough, I won’t be happy until I’m thinner.”
While behavior-focused disordered eating interventions can help, you need to dig further and expand your clinical toolbox.
Because the reality is untreated trauma and eating disorders are lethal. But, they don’t have to be.
In this groundbreaking course, you’ll gain a dual skill set to treat the intersection of eating disorders and trauma from every angle. Our hand-selected panel of seven premier experts brings over 100 years of clinical experience and new research to help you:
- Craft individualized interventions that target clients’ mind-body complexes
- Integrate innovative treatments like Internal Family Systems, EMDR, CBT, ACT & more
- Treat dissociation that underlies common eating disorder symptoms
- Master the nuances of working with men and other populations
- Manage self-harm, suicidality, and other crises
By the end of this training, you’ll be able to deliver the trauma-sensitive disordered eating therapy that only this specialized training can provide.
Plus, get unlimited access to three bonus videos and the education you need to become a Certified Trauma Treatment Professional. Giving you the opportunity to stand out from the crowd and let clients and colleagues know you’ve invested the time and effort needed to provide treatment at the highest level!
Get certified AND find answers to the profound challenges posed by clients with trauma and eating disorders:
- Help your clients end yo-yo dieting & other harmful patterns
- Replace maladaptive disordered eating coping with constructive healing
- Reframe your client’s relationship with food — for good!
- Reduce trauma-related symptoms of disordered eating
With over 21 hours of therapy transforming content you’ll have new skills for your entire career!
Course Outline
Disordered Eating Behaviors: Identify and Treat the Underlying Trauma
Lori Kucharski, PhD, LMFT-S, LPC, CEDS-S
With 17 years of clinical experience and EMDR training, Dr. Kucharski shares with you her incredible breadth of knowledge on eating disorders. You’re going to learn:
- Trauma-informed interventions for each stage of disordered eating treatment
- EMDR, IFS, attachment-focused strategies, and more for stabilization
- How to find the roots of disordered eating in client’s trauma narratives
Prepare Yourself & Your Client
- Common issues not in DSM-5®: Orthorexia, compulsive overeating, diabulimia
- Digging for the roots — Finding trauma?
- Looking beyond anorexia, bulimia, and bingeing
- Dialogues & questions for improving your intake
- Red flags of disordered eating
Implement Comprehensive Clinical Assessments
- Choose the right assessmentAssess the spectrum of disordered eating & trauma
- Tools for depression, trauma, or other comorbid conditions
- How and when to use assessments for tracking progress
- Reduce your and your client’s burnout
- Improve collaboration within the treatment team
Techniques and Interventions to Transform Therapy
- Trauma-informed tactics for each stage
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- Trauma-specific evaluation of intake procedure
- Process and treat trauma and dissociation
- Avoid re-traumatization — what not to say & do
- Determine the order of interventions
- Non-diet paradigm to transform your client’s relationship with food
- Health at Every Size (HAES)
- Intuitive eating
- Respect, love, and nurturance for self
- Reframing your approach as the clinician
- Therapeutic techniques that assist in stabilization
- EMDR
- IFS mapping
- Attachment focused work
- Art and sand tray interventions, journaling/logging
- Evaluate the Window of Tolerance
- Incorporate Polyvagal Theory to increase client stability
- Prevent trauma flooding
How to Put it All into Action
- Overcome common blocks in therapy
- Systemic vs. individual: When to include family/partners
- Self of the therapist exercise: Countertransference, bias & more
- Case discussions and video demonstrations
- Effective documentation for ongoing treatment
- Risks and limitations
Trauma Certification Training
J. Eric Gentry, PhD, LMHC, DAAETS, FAAETS, CCTP
Dr. Gentry has trained over 100,000 mental health professionals in the past 20 years on the ins and outs of trauma treatment. His unique approach to trauma includes the essentials and nuanced applications of trauma interventions.
Evolution of Traumatic Stress, Grief & Loss
- Systemic Traumatic Stress Theory
- The most effective treatments
- Tri-Phasic model & what it means
- Essential assessment tools
- Limitations of diagnostic (DSM-5®)
Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Factors of Anxiety & Traumatic Stress
- Precipitating events
- Meaning-making & its impact
- Physiology of Trauma & how to manage it
- Perception and why it matters
Adaptive and Maladaptive Coping Behaviors
- The process of trauma adaptation
- Systemic influences on trauma experience
- Integrated theoretical concepts from stress, crisis & trauma theories
- Implementing the Information Processing Model & Psychosocial Model
Assessment of Traumatic Stress Disorders
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the APA
- DSM-5® changes
- ACE & Developmental Trauma
- Diagnosing PTSD with the PCL-5
Strategies from PE, CPT, EMDR & More
- Cognitive Behavioral Techniques (PE, CPT & SIT)
- EMDR & Bilateral Stimulation
- Thought Field Therapy (TFT)/Emotional
- Freedom Techniques (EFT)
- Sensorimotor techniques
Demonstrations: Interactive Exercises/Application of Skills
- Cognitive Behavioral Techniques
- Narrative Exposure Therapy Technique
- Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
- Bilateral Stimulation
Evidence-Based Techniques
- Relaxation/Self-regulation
- Grounding
- Containment
- Writing/journaling
- Drawing art
- Healing metaphors
- Transitional objects
The Biochemical, Affective, & Cognitive Impacts of Traumatic Stress
- Affective volatility & how to manage it
- The Body Keeps the Score in practice
- Neurobiology and biology of traumatic stress
The Impacts of Traumatic Stress Over Time & Developmental Stages
- Epigenetic factors
- Reactive Attachment Disorder development
- Adrenal fatigue, prevention & intervention
Traumatic Stress in Grief, Personality Disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder & More
- Traumagenesis
- Traumaddiction
- Comorbidity
- Supporting Normal Bereavement
- Treating Complicated Bereavement
- Limitations of grief work
Framework of Healing for Trauma Survivors & System Levels of Stress
- Systemic perspective vs Strengths perspective
- Survivor metaphor
- Community trauma
- Vicarious secondary traumatization
- Contemporary thoughts
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