This workshop introducing ways of working with clients who want to understand more about their relationship with food, weight gain, what food means to them and how food may be used as a coping mechanism. The workshop will be presented in a way to match first session to ending with the client drawing on SFBT and mindfulness with an underpinning of the humanistic approach.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Learning about where current eating habits were formed as early as childhood.
- Raising awareness of how historic habits and behaviours are impacting on the present day, and coping strategies.
- How to support clients moving forwards post therapy and putting together a maintenance plan highlighting blocks.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Counsellors, psychotherapists, people working with addictions primarily around food.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- An insight into the client’s relationship with food and how it plays an important role in self worth and for the therapist to become aware and reflect on their own relationship with food and their thoughts to working with this client group.
Course Content
Presenter
Humanistic counsellor with over 10 years experience of working in the field of addiction, primarily with food and has also run psycho-educational groups in this area. She also works with young adults and supervises counsellors in training.
Qualified integrative psycho-therapeutic counsellor who’s been practising for over 10 years. She’s worked in a charity supporting survivors of rape and sexual abuse, including domestic abuse and on a specialist weight management programme supporting people to work through their relationship with food and emotional eating, as well as co-facilitating psycho-educational groups. Her background is teaching for over 20 years.
