Course Description

This workshop will address the spectrum of eating disordered behaviors from a trauma perspective with EMDR therapy. Individuals are rarely born with distorted eating patterns. An increasing number of studies make the connection between adverse life experiences and the development of inappropriate relationships with food and exercise as coping mechanisms. Inappropriate relationships with food and exercise develop along a full continuum from disordered eating to a full-blown eating disordered behavior. The trainer—DaLene Forester, Ph.D.—will present from her 20+ years of experience utilizing the 8-phases and 3-pronged protocol of EMDR therapy with individuals suffering from eating disorders and disordered eating.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to summarize the history of an eating disorder or disordered eating as it relates to the AIP model.
2. Participants will be able to describe the trauma connection as it relates to individuals with eating disorders and disordered eating.
3. Participants will be able to list at least three commonly held Negative Cognitions associated with those suffering with Eating Disorders and disordered eating.
4. Participants will be able to articulate a treatment plan utilizing the full 8-phases and 3-pronged protocol of EMDR therapy with eating disorders and disordered eating.

Presenter(s)

DaLene Forester, Ph.D.

DaLene Forester, Ph.D., has been licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist since 1996 and as a Professional Clinical Counselor since 2013 in California. She maintains an active private practice specializing in the treatment of PTSD, Eating Disorders, and Anxiety Disorders. Dr. Forester is EMDR Certified, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, EMDR Therapy Trainer, and a Past-President of the EMDRIA. Dr. Forester has two chapters in EMDR Solutions II, R Shapiro (ed.), W.W. Norton & Company, 2009, and one chapter in Trauma-Informed Approaches to Eating Disorders, A. Seubert and P. Virdi (ed.) Springer Publishing Company, LLC, 2019.