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254 Lincoln Road

Henderson

Waitakere City

West Auckland

New Zealand 

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Healing Intractable Eating Problems Online Course

This Course meets qualifications for LMFTs and LCSWs
 Mandatory Continuing Education as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (PCE #3370) to earn  6 CEUs

After Completing the Course You Will be Able to:

  •  •  Know how to intervene into psycho-somatic dissociation patterns when working with compulsive   

  •      eaters and restrictors

  •  •  Assess level of lethality and dissociation for patients with eating disturbances

  •  •  Teach how to follow intuitive hunger-based eating guidelines

  •  •  Identify triggers and interpret symbolic meanings of binge-eating, purging, starving, body image  

  •      distortions, and shame

   At present there are no highly effective systematic approaches for assessing or intervening with the many patients with intractable compulsive eating, restricting, or purging symptoms. Instead we are told that eating disorders are hard to impossible to treat and we should lower our expectations for outcomes. This course covers the the feminist Object Relations approach to working with eating and body image disturbances. It includes training in offering psychoeducation to your patients about the effect of low-calorie diets on metabolism and emotional states, identifying and intervening into the binge/diet or purge cycles, and following intuitive hunger-based eating guidelines.   The method taught is symptom-focused, yet psychodynamic in orientation, allowing the therapist to understand and use the symptoms as  metaphors for other psychological issues, while still respecting the deep pain of eating and body image obsessions.

   Eating problems usually involve varying degrees of dissociation - most especially psycho-somatic dissociation of sensations of hunger, fullness, and proprioceptive awareness of body size. The correlation between compulsive eating patterns and dissociation has been noted by many, yet as yet there are no explanations for the causes of this correlation, or structured interventions with patients who may initially present with no traumatic history.

     Through a synthesis of anecdotal data, experiential exercises participants can immediately apply to their practice, theoretical formulations, and a review of relevant research, this course will present one possible explanation for a causal relationship between dissociation and compulsive eating, and offer step-by-step guidelines for assessment and intervention with so-called "impossible to treat" patients..

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   All materials are copyrighted and duplication is strictly prohibited. Only one person may

  • receive CE credit per packet.
     

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    Individual Consultation and Supervision

    Individual telephone or online video consultation sessions for therapists can be arranged privately, as time permits, by contacting me via e-mail at jlightstone@gmail.com or by leaving a message on my California phone number (510) 962-5704.  Please let me know your local time zone, along with all the times you have available to receive a telephone or video-call over the internet, as well as your level of urgency. I will then let you know if I have any of those times available for me as well.

    During our session, we'll work with the therapeutic relationship as it presents itself in the consultation relationship. Your health and well being as a therapist are paramount to your ability to help your patients/clients, and so part of the work will be to help you develop resilience in your work. Consultation will also help you to adapt your individual style and techniques to meet the needs of your specific patients/clients.

    Please let me know whether you would like a response by e-mail or telephone. Be sure to include your e-mail address or telephone number. 

    The fee for this service is US$125 for a 50 minute session, or $187.50 for a 75 minute session.

    You may purchase Consultation time in 50 and 75 minute increments here: 

     (For in-person sessions in New Zealand please click here).

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    About Judy Lightstone

                 Judy has been training therapists and providing professional consultation throughout the United States since 1986 (and more recently in New Zealand), beginning at the Women's Therapy Centre Institute in New York City where she received 5 years of post graduate training in their feminist relational approach to eating problems. She is the co-author of a chapter on combining Ego State work with EMDR in working with eating problems in EMDR Solutions II, edited by Robin Shapiro.  She has published The Role of Dissociated Love and Trauma in Human Violence and Evil (PhD dissertation, 2006), The Workbook and Training Manual on Working with Dissociation (1992) and her article Compulsive Eating and Dissociation appears in the 2004 Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. She received additional post-graduate training with faculty of the Center for Family Learning in Bowenian Systems and has a PhD from California Institute of Integral Studies, and two Masters degrees, one from New York University and one from California State University at Hayward. In her Auckland New Zealand and online private therapy and consulting practice, she specializes in treating eating disorders and dissociation, and in working with abuse survivors. She is a NZ Registered Psychologist #90-03237,  a California Provider of Continuing Mandatory Education #PCE 3370, an EMDRIA approved provider of Continuing Education, and a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #MFC32570)
     

    For more information, link to: Curriculum Vitae

     

    254 Lincoln Road, Henderson, Waitakere City, West Auckland, New Zealand.       E-mail        Phone +64 (09) 835-1929 

    [Home]   [Individual Psychotherapy] [Relationship Therapy]  [Contact Me] [List of Articles] [About Judy]

    Local Training: [PSI Seminar] [Eating Problems Training]  [Supervision]

    International Training: [Online Course Healing Intractable Eating Problems] [Online Consultation]