Working with negative body image, chronic dieting, and emotional eating: An emotion-focused approach.

EXPAND YOUR PRACTICE.

WORKING WITH NEGATIVE BODY IMAGE, CHRONIC DIETING, AND EMOTIONAL EATING: AN EMOTION FOCUSED APPROACH



WITH DR. AMANDA STILLAR, PH.D., C.PSYCH.


LIVE VIA ZOOM

Dates: February 26th and 27th, 2025

Time: 11:00AM – 2:15PM

(Eastern Standard Time)


A recording of the full workshop will be made available to registrants for 60 days.

Please note, it can take 10-12 business days for the recordings to be sent out.


OVERVIEW

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.


This workshop is designed for mental health professionals from any training background and at any stage of their career. Video-recorded clips of real therapy sessions will be used to illustrate key principles and interventions.


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OBJECTIVES


Through didactic presentation, participants will learn:

  • Reflect on their own biased beliefs that can affect the therapeutic process
  • Recognize and challenge widespread misunderstandings regarding eating habits with their clients
  • Conceptualize how unhealthy eating is maintained because it regulates painful emotions.
  • Understand and assess deeper emotional factors underlying body image issues and unhealthy eating
  • Implement emotion-focused interventions to help clients increase emotional awareness and improve emotional self-efficacy.
  • Resolve emotional processing difficulties that contribute to unhealthy eating patterns and body image concerns.
  • Target and help clients heal deeper emotional wounds underlying unhealthy eating behaviors and body image issues.


CE CREDITS

Please note, live attendance of this workshop is required to obtain CE Credits

Ontario Psychological Association (OPA) -  5.5 credits

Medical Psychotherapy Association of Canada (MDPAC) - 5.5 Credits

Ontario Association of Mental Health Practitioners (OAMHP) - 5.5 Credits

Participation in this workshop allows OAMHP members to apply 5.5 hours (CECs) towards their required continuing education hours. OAMHP’s review of the general content of this workshop recognizes the learning objectives meet and support the criteria (1) for best known practice in continuing education and (2) for educational requirements for mental health professionals.



RATES

Regular Admission: $220 (+ applicable taxes)

Student Rate: $150 (+ applicable taxes)


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ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Dr. Amanda Stiillar, is a Registered Psychologist who specializes in Emotion-focused Therapy for individuals, couples, and families. Dr. Stillar has been working with EFT in these various contexts for the past 11 years. Dr. Stillar co-owns the Alberta Wellness Center for Eating Disorders, which is a private treatment center for eating disorders rooted in the Emotion-focused Family Therapy model and serves the province of Alberta with 4 locations. She also operates a private practice clinic, Stillar Psychological, that offers counselling and assessment services with two locations in Edmonton, Alberta.  


Dr. Stillar is a Certified Supervisor and Trainer in Emotion-focused Family Therapy (EFFT). She supervisors graduate students, social workers, provisional psychologists and Registered Psychologists throughout Alberta. Dr. Stillar has been delivering EFFT clinician trainings throughout Alberta for the past five years. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Stillar has contributed to the evidence-base for EFFT by co-authoring 10 EFFT focused publications to date. 


Additionally, Dr. Stillar is a Certified Supervisor and Trainer in Emotion-focused Skills Training (EFST) and a Certified Supervisor for Emotion-focused Therapy for individuals (EFT), with over 500 hours of formal EFST and EFT training combined. 
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