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Module 2: EMDR and Eating Disorders

Course
Virtual
6 CE Hours
Clinical

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Location

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    Access virtually on TPN.health
Description

On day 2, we will cover the following 

  • – Conceptualizing eating disorders from a parts perspective.
  • – Personality Disorders and eating disorders
  • – Eating disorder-specific EMDR targets
  • – Developing an 8-phase treatment plan for eating disorders and disordered eating
Target Audience
  • • Counselors
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
  • • Social Workers
  • • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Describe how an eating disorder develops as a coping mechanism.

  • Explain the connection between trauma, personality disorders, and eating disorders.

  • Identify the appropriate application of the 3-pronged protocol for clients with eating disorders.

  • Identify how EMDR can be used to target eating disorder behaviors.

  • List at least 3 commonly held negative cognitions of individuals with eating disorders.

References

  • Madowitz, J., Matheson, B.E., & Liang, J. (2015). The relationship between eating disorders and sexual trauma. Eating and Weight Disorders, 20, 281-293. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-015-0195-y

  • Mason, T. & Lewis, R. (2016). Minority Stress, Body Shame, and Binge Eating Among Lesbian Women: Social Anxiety as a Linking Mechanism. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40(3), 428-440. https://doi.org/10.1177/036/6843/6635529.

  • Grogan, K., O'Daly, H., Bramham, J., Scriven, M., Maher, C. & Fitzgerald, A. (2022). A qualitative study on the multilevel process of resilience development for adults recovering from eating disorders. Journal of Eating Disorders, 9, 66. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-021-00422-8

  • Becker, C.B., Middlemass, K., Taylor, B., Johnson, C., Gomez, F. (2017. Food insecurity and eating disorder pathology. International Journal of Eating Disorder, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.22735

Clinical
Counselors

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

Social Workers

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 6 continuing education credits.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

CE Policy
TPN.health and this educator have no conflicts of interest and have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents.
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Note: Time designated for waiting room, breaks cannot be counted toward CE credit.
DaLene Forester, PhD, LMFT, LPCC, CEDS-S, EMDRIA Trainer

DaLene Forester, PhD, has been Licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist since 1996 and as a Professional Clinical Counselor since 2013 in California. She maintains a private practice specializing in the consultation and treatment of PTSD, Eating Disorders, and Anxiety Disorders. Dr. Forester is EMDR certified, an EMDRIA-approved consultant, an EMDR Therapy Trainer, and a Past-President of the EMDR International Association.

In 2007, Dr. Forester founded the Advanced Education Institute, where she loves to provide interactive clinical training to Mental Health professionals in EMDR Therapy, Clinical Supervision, Clinical Treatment of Eating Disorders, and more.

Dr. Forester has presented professionally at the AAMFT, EMDRIA, EMDR Canada, and Western Psychological Association (WPA) Conferences. She has two chapters published in EMDR Solutions II, R Shapiro (ed.), W.W. Norton & Company, 2009, and one published in Trauma-Informed Approaches to Eating Disorders, A. Seubert and P. Virdi (ed.) Springer Publishing Company, LLC, 2019.

Lauren Kiser, PhD, LPC-S, CEDS-S, EMDRIA Trainer

Lauren Kiser specializes in the treatment of trauma, dissociative disorders, eating disorders, and substance use disorders. She has many years of experience treating complex issues in the inpatient, residential, PHP & outpatient level of care. Lauren is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Supervisor, a Certified EMDR Therapist, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and an Adult Complex Trauma & Dissociation Specialist. She utilizes EMDR therapy to treat trauma, anxiety disorders, addictive behaviors, and other life issues interfering with one’s well-being.

Lauren obtained a BA in Psychology at Texas Tech University where she was the lead research assistant in a Correctional Research Lab. Lauren obtained her MS from Lubbock Christian University and received the second highest score on the national comprehensive exam. She developed an eating disorder program for those suffering with co-occurring substance use disorders.

She has held the role of Clinical Director at treatment facilities (Inpatient, Residential, PHP, and IOP) and completed her doctorate degree focusing on addictive disorders and therapist’s competency to treat eating disorders. Many therapists call on her for advanced trauma training and consultation for her various specializations.

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