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Trauma-Informed Strategies for Disordered Eating

Many of your clients with trauma likely have an eating disorder... And there is a significant overlap between trauma and eating disorder that many clinicians don't know much about.

Get the essential information you need about trauma-informed strategies for disordered eating from Lori Kucharski, PhD, LMFT-S, LPC, CEDS-S, who will answer your most pressing questions about this complex clinical issue:
  • What are some red flags of disordered eating?
  • What do I do when a client does not want to address eating in therapy?
  • How does intuitive eating work? How can therapists incorporate this in session with clients?
  • When clients have trauma symptoms and eating disorder symptoms, which do you prioritize in treatment?
  • How can therapists decrease the impact of weight stigma on clients?
Watch the video below where Dr. Kucharski dives deeper into these questions and more!



Help your clients to resolve their traumas and release their unhealthy disordered eating behaviors
Disordered Eating Digital Seminar
Disordered eating behaviors are frequently hiding something deeper – serving as a coping mechanism for the unresolved trauma that lies beneath. Without addressing the trauma behind the disordered eating your client will fail to find the relief they seek.Watch this seminar and learn how to assess and treat disordered eating from a trauma-informed, body positive lens, for improved outcomes!

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The Body Image Course gives you the interventions you need to support inclusion of race, gender identity, sexuality, body size, ethnicity, and culture in treatment! Register today to get the most current affirming interventions for every body! With this self-paced online course, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from leading experts in the field. Drawing on the latest research, you’ll learn inclusive and transformational body image interventions that will significantly improve your client’s relationship with their body, weight, and food!

Meet the Expert:
Lori Kucharski, PhD, LMFT-S, LPC, CEDS-S, is a licensed therapist practicing since 2004 in residential treatment facilities, crisis and outpatient mental health, and private practice. She owns and operates a training, consulting, supervision, and clinical practice. She is a Certified EMDR Therapist, Approved Consultant, and Training/Credit Provider as well as an AAMFT-Approved Supervisor, a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist/Supervisor, and the EMDR regional network coordinator for Colorado Springs, CO. She taught MFT and Counseling courses in graduate programs and specializes in complex trauma, attachment, disordered eating, dissociation, and body image with all ages from a systems perspective. She presents locally and nationally on these topics and advocates for ending social and cultural stigma and discrimination around body size, ability, and appearance.

Learn more about her educational products, including upcoming live seminars, by clicking here.

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