Treating Binge Eating with Self-Compassion with Erica Thomas (on-demand)
This 2-CE training with Erika Thomas, LMFT focuses on self-compassion as an intervention to support clients with binge eating.
Course curriculum
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Treating Binge Eating with Self-Compassion: A Trauma Informed Approach - Free Preview
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About this course
- $36.00
- 2 hours of video content
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Course Description
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Treating Binge Eating with Self-Compassion: A Trauma-Informed Approach offers therapists a practical and research-informed framework for addressing binge eating through the lens of self-compassion. Rooted in the work of Kristin Neff, Paul Gilbert, and trauma-informed care principles, this training explores how binge eating often functions as a coping strategy for underlying emotional pain and shame. Participants will learn how to use self-compassion-based interventions to help clients shift from cycles of self-criticism and secrecy to greater emotional regulation, inner safety, and healing.
This training is especially relevant for clinicians who work with clients struggling with disordered eating, chronic dieting, body image distress, or emotional dysregulation related to trauma histories. Through clinical examples, guided practices, and experiential learning, participants will explore how to integrate self-compassion into treatment in a way that honors the client’s protective strategies while gently introducing new ways of relating to food, body, and self. Attention will also be given to therapist self-reflection—helping clinicians bring a self-compassionate stance to moments of therapeutic stuckness, client resistance, or countertransference.
This is a beginning to intermediate-level training appropriate for therapists with some familiarity with working with eating concerns, emotional dysregulation, or trauma. No prior experience with self-compassion-based interventions is required, though an interest in mindfulness, somatic work, or parts work (e.g., IFS) may be helpful. Therapists will leave with immediately usable tools, language, and practices to support clients in reducing shame, increasing self regulation, and developing a more compassionate relationship with food and their bodies.
Treating Binge Eating with Self-Compassion: A Trauma-Informed Approach offers therapists a practical and research-informed framework for addressing binge eating through the lens of self-compassion. Rooted in the work of Kristin Neff, Paul Gilbert, and trauma-informed care principles, this training explores how binge eating often functions as a coping strategy for underlying emotional pain and shame. Participants will learn how to use self-compassion-based interventions to help clients shift from cycles of self-criticism and secrecy to greater emotional regulation, inner safety, and healing.
This training is especially relevant for clinicians who work with clients struggling with disordered eating, chronic dieting, body image distress, or emotional dysregulation related to trauma histories. Through clinical examples, guided practices, and experiential learning, participants will explore how to integrate self-compassion into treatment in a way that honors the client’s protective strategies while gently introducing new ways of relating to food, body, and self. Attention will also be given to therapist self-reflection—helping clinicians bring a self-compassionate stance to moments of therapeutic stuckness, client resistance, or countertransference.
This is a beginning to intermediate-level training appropriate for therapists with some familiarity with working with eating concerns, emotional dysregulation, or trauma. No prior experience with self-compassion-based interventions is required, though an interest in mindfulness, somatic work, or parts work (e.g., IFS) may be helpful. Therapists will leave with immediately usable tools, language, and practices to support clients in reducing shame, increasing self regulation, and developing a more compassionate relationship with food and their bodies.
Educational Goals
This training will provide therapists with a trauma-informed framework for treating binge eating using self-compassion-based interventions. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how binge eating functions as an emotional coping strategy and learn practical tools to help clients reduce shame, regulate emotions, and build a kinder relationship with food and body. The training also supports therapists in cultivating a self-compassionate stance in their clinical work
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
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Describe at least three ways that trauma can contribute to the development and maintenance of binge eating behaviors.
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Identify at least three self-compassion-based interventions that can be integrated into clinical work with clients struggling with binge eating.
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Explain how self-compassion can reduce shame and self-criticism in clients with disordered eating.
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Apply at least two trauma-informed strategies for introducing self-compassion practices to clients who use food as an emotional coping tool.
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Describe at least two ways self-compassion practices can be adapted to support clients from diverse cultural, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds in the treatment of binge eating.
About the Instructor
Erica Thomas, MA, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 15 years of experience supporting clients in healing from trauma, emotional eating, and disordered eating. She specializes in helping clients develop a more compassionate relationship with food and body, drawing from her training with Dr. Kristin Neff in self-compassion and her background in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Erica maintains a private practice in Rohnert Park and Lafayette, California, and offers coaching and an online course to support individuals struggling with emotional eating. Her work blends evidence-based practices with deep empathy and a belief that healing begins with kindness toward ourselves.
CEs
This course meets the qualifications for 2 hrs of continuing education (CE) credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT (Provider #57173) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT (Provider #57173) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
Purchase Terms
Refund policy: Because you are given instant access to this on-demand training, the purchase is final and refunds are not allowed.
RECAMFT members may participate in this on-demand program for free as part of their membership benefits. Log onto your recamft.org account using the button below to retrieve the code for use on the online checkout screen. We're sorry but we cannot provide refunds to previous purchases. Free programs are available only while your RECAMFT membership is active.
RECAMFT members may participate in this on-demand program for free as part of their membership benefits. Log onto your recamft.org account using the button below to retrieve the code for use on the online checkout screen. We're sorry but we cannot provide refunds to previous purchases. Free programs are available only while your RECAMFT membership is active.