Workshop Topics and Themes

1. Identifying the underlying issues to developing an eating disorder
   
2. Developing alternative coping mechanisms to replace the self-destructive behaviors
3. The connection between eating disorders and trauma/abuse
   
4. The power of healing relationships in recovery
   
5. The role of dissociation in surviving trauma
   
6. How to recover from an eating disorder
   
7. How to help someone break the role of re-creating trauma
   
8. Coping with difficult feelings between therapy sessions
   
9. Developing an adequate treatment team
   
10. Techniques and strategies in the process of integration
    
11. Therapist self-care
    
12. The role of a witness in recovering from eating disorders and trauma
    
13. How to manage transference/countertransference
    
14. Running and maintaining on-going outpatient therapy groups
    
15. Developing boundaries to replace self-destructive tendencies
    
16. Learning to love and embrace your body