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Authenticity and empathy: Exploring the use of self in eating disorders treatment
Deepen your impact by learning how authenticity, identity, and empathy shape effective, culturally responsive eating disorder treatment.
The therapeutic relationship plays a critical role in evidence-based eating disorder treatment. This workshop explores the use of self in eating disorder treatment, with a focus on how therapists’ cultural, gender, and lived experiences shape their work. Through reflective exercises, case discussions, and experiential activities, participants will examine how personal identity can impact the therapeutic alliance, treatment planning, and clinical outcomes.
This interactive workshop will guide clinicians in deepening their self-awareness and authenticity while maintaining professional boundaries. It emphasizes the relevance of the use of self in eating disorder treatment, highlighting how to integrate culturally responsive and trauma-informed approaches that respect clients’ diverse lived experiences and perspectives on food, body image, and identity.
Learning objectives:
- Understand the concept of the “use of self” in therapeutic practice and its specific relevance in eating disorder treatment.
- Identify how cultural, gender, and lived experiences influence the therapist’s perceptions, interventions, and interactions with clients.
- Explore strategies to use authenticity and self-awareness to strengthen the therapeutic alliance while maintaining appropriate boundaries.
- Develop skills to address potential countertransference and biases that may arise in eating disorder treatment.
- Integrate culturally responsive approaches through consideration of clients’ diverse perspectives on body image, food and lived experiences into treatment planning
Reserve your spot today and learn how to harness the power of authenticity in eating disorder treatment.
