with Judy Lightstone, PhD, New Zealand Registered Psychologist, Califonia Licensed MFT, Certified Provider of Mandatory Continuing Education (California MCE)
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(All fees listed on this page are in U.S. dollars.All Courses meet qualifications for LMFTs and LCSWs Mandatory Continuing Education as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (PCE #3370).
*This page is for online international professional training and consultation for psychotherapists outside of Auckland*
(Formerly Dissociative processes in Eating Disturbances: A Feminist Object Relations Approach)
Take the Course Online or the Home Study Print Version
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After Completing the Course You Will be Able to:
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.. Take the Course Online or the Home Study Print Version |
The online course Healing Intractable Eating Problems can be downloaded in 5 sections - 3 sections of audio in either Quick Time or Media Player (depending on what you have on your system), a manual in Microsoft Word and an article in Adobe Acrobat. The downloads may take several minutes for dialup modems, and several seconds for DSL and Cable modems. The online course costs less and saves delivery costs.
To take the online course, click the button below, and you will be taken automatically to the download page. Or if after paying you are not sent to the download page, let me know that and I will email the downloads to you. The course can be downloaded in 5 sections: 3 audio sections, the manual and the article. This will take a few minutes for dialup, less time for DSL and Cable. You may download the course onto your computer and listen to it in your own time, or listen to it all online. The audio section is about 80 minutes all together, and should be listened to as you go through the PowerPoint slides in the manual. The cost of the online course is $79, cheaper than the Home Study, and you also save considerable shipping costs from New Zealand.
The
Home Study print version of Healing Intractable Eating Problems course packet
includes a CD, a booklet to go with the CD, plus other required reading and a
bibliography, an application for CE credit, a post test and an evaluation. All
materials are copyrighted and duplication is strictly prohibited. Only one
person may receive CE credit per packet. If you have any questions please
call Judy Lightstone at +64 (09) 835 1929 or at (510) 962-5704 if calling
from the U.S. If you are interested in obtaining a packet for the course, please
click the button below.
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All Courses meet qualifications for LMFTs and LCSWs Mandatory Continuing Education as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (PCE #3370).
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 20 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, and a California Licensed Marriage and Family
Therapist #MFC32570)
For more information,
link to:
Curriculum Vitae
“The presentation was exceptionally clear and knowledgeable about the complex and confusing issues of dissociation. Our staff found the information stimulating and useful. Everybody is eager for more!”
“A good combination of behavioral, family and Psychodynamic treatment… A very effective and well thought out approach.”
“I liked observing the interaction between therapist and client in the role plays. Judy was excellent. She remained on focus each session, and this allowed her to cover an enormous amount of material..”
“Judy Lightstone is thorough, knowledgeable and compassionate- her resourcefulness and clarity helped me add to my own ability to question clients.”
“Judy was able to go after and acknowledge the needs within the group, which modeled what she was teaching.”
“Judy's openness in working with the issues provided good role modeling for me. She was professional, on track and clear in terms of setting an agenda.”
Links for Therapists
(Bookstore)
Inservice
Training and Private Workshops
Telephone or in-person Consultation
Somatic and
Lifespan Integration with Dissociative Eating Disturbances
for the 23rd International ISSD Conference in Los
Angeles, CA
November 9-11, 2006
Dissociative
Processes in Eating Disturbances Presentation
for the 15th Annual Renfrew Center Foundation
Conference in Philadelphia PA
Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders:
Enduring Wisdom, New Frontiers
November 10-13, 2005
EMDR and Dissociation Workshop
for the Northern California EMDRIA Conference
2005
(also See EMDR and Dissociation Consultation Group)
2004 for International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD) Conference, New Orleans. workshop: Dissociative Aspects of Eating Disturbances
2003 for ISSD Conference, Chicago. paper: Compulsive Eating and Dissociation
2001 For the East Bay Chapter of CAMFT: The Dissociative Continuum: An introductory workshop
1998-2000 For the Collegial Learning Center: Women, Food and Beauty: A Feminist Object Relations Approach
1997 For The Psychotherapy Institute Case Conferences: Compulsive Eating and Dissociation: Working With a Couple System through in-depth Psychodynamic Work with one Partner.
1996 For Conference Presentation For East Bay CAMFT: Feeding the Feeders: Compulsive Eating in the Helping Professions
1995 for EBCAMFT "We & Me" Conference. Topic: Working with
Dissociative
Disorders: A Team Approach
Inservice Training and Private Workshops
Telephone or in-person Consultation
Inservice Training
Workshops for schools and agencies
and Workshop
I; Workshop II
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Helping
the Helpers Inservice Workshops
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Workshop I
Judy Lightstone, Ph.D, MA, MS, Registered NZ
Psychologist, California Licensed MFT
Fee per person:: US$95 plus travel expenses (8 person minimum). Dissociation is different from most defenses in that it is used to psychically protect an individual from externally perceived danger - the greater the danger, the more dissociation is employed. It has been compared to the freeze response in animals that cannot fight or flee when threatened. When employed regularly, it can structure a personality and present clinically in many familiar forms, such as PTSD, BPD, eating disorders, somatoform disorders, addictive disorders as well as the major dissociative disorders. After this workshop participants will be able to:
For more information, link to: Curriculum Vitae
Workshop II
Judy Lightstone, Ph.D, MA, MS, Registered NZ
Psychologist, California Licensed MFT
Most dissociative symptoms are manifestations of primitive attempts to communicate that which cannot be expressed verbally. The symptoms present as a code, but the code is understandable if you know what to look for. In this workshop, didactic material will be interwoven with role plays and case consultation. After this seminar, participants will be able to:
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