with Carol Bloom, LCSW, PC
Online workshop for practitioners; 2.0 CEs for NY State qualifying practitioners
How do therapists listen for and address food, feeding and body troubles in an ongoing treatment not specifically dedicated to eating problems?
This workshop will help the general therapist find a more secure and informed therapeutic voice amidst the culturally induced and sanctioned “every day speak “ of food and feeding distress and embodiment troubles. Training your ear to listen will invite patients to talk more openly. This in turn will help determine if a specialist or intervention is required.
WTCI’s theoretical and clinical treatment model for eating and body problems is introduced. This model allows us to enter into our patients’ inner life and psychodynamic struggles and decode the instantaneous conversion of feeling language into food and body (hate, control, wish for transformation, rage, violation) language that so perniciously impacts psychic life in our time.
Developing a stance that questions this normalized hijacking of experience opens the opportunity for the therapist and client to speak about what really is troubling about one’s life and to be liberated from restrictive and oppressive ideas about the right way to be and the right body.
Carol will discuss the unique challenges and possibilities when the therapist has food and body troubles of their own. Parameters for referring out, supervision or further training will be identified.
Flowing from this therapeutic goal is the potential for greater freedom and satisfaction in general.