More Than a Diagnosis: Eating, Identity, and Therapeutic Support

This training supports therapists and other mental health professionals in working with adults experiencing eating disorders and eating distress. We’ll cover the most prevalent DSM-5 diagnoses, explore disordered eating patterns, and look at how food and body image can be used to manage emotional pain, trauma, and relational stress.

You’ll learn about the links between eating, self-worth, shame, and identity, and how cultural messages around control, appearance, and safety shape our relationship with food and our bodies. We’ll also explore key statistics, medical risks, and NICE guidelines—highlighting how to recognise when eating distress may pose serious physical health risks and require safeguarding action or medical referral.

The course offers practical therapeutic tools through a relational lens, including Transactional Analysis models that help make sense of how symptoms show up in everyday life. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of how to support clients with compassion, clarity, and cultural…