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*This page is for online international professional
training and consultation for psychotherapists outside of
Auckland
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:
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• Know how to
intervene into psycho-somatic dissociation patterns when working with
compulsive eaters and restrictors
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• Assess level of lethality and dissociation for patients
with eating disturbances
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Teach
how to follow intuitive hunger-based eating guidelines
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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..
To Purchase the Online Course, Click the link below:
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 consultations and supervision sessions for
therapists can be arranged privately by contacting me by e-mail at
JLightstone@gmail.com or by leaving a message in the U.S. at (510) 962-5704. 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.
(For in-person sessions in New Zealand please click
here).
Purchase Consultation Time in
50 minute increments here:
About
Judy Lightstone, Ph.D, Registered Psychologist and Licensed MFT 
Judy has been training therapists and providing professional consultation
in New York and California for the past 21 years, beginning at the Women's
Therapy Centre Institute where she received 5 years of post graduate training
in their feminist object relations approach to eating problems. She is
the author of The Role of Dissociated Love and Trauma in Human Violence and
Evil (Ph.D 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 Ph.D 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, a Certified EMDR Practitioner and Consultant-in-training, and a California Licensed Marriage and Family
Therapist #MFC32570)
For more information,
link to: Curriculum Vitae
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