All Parts are Welcome: Impact of IFS on Eating Disorders

The Internal Family Systems model is a tool for accelerated self-awareness and permanent emotional healing developed over 30 years ago by Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., LMFT. IFS can be utilized to understand and support healing unresolved extreme beliefs and burdens that often manifest as eating disorder behaviors. Thoughts, sensations, emotions, and impulses then continue to subdue the natural process of nourishing ourselves. IFS supports a process where parts release the vulnerabilities, wounds and painful beliefs that drive the behaviors. When these are no longer needed, parts transform back to...Read more their valuable and trusting state to support a natural balanced process of caring for the body with food and movement. In this workshop you will have an experience that demonstrates how attention to the parts of us related to food and body can guide them attune to both internal signals and external nutrition and health recommendations. Less...

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the basic concepts of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Model.
  • Discuss how the IFS model approaches the treatment of eating disorders and disordered eating.
  • Describe how to integrate IFS language and concepts with clients with disordered eating.

Learning Levels

  • Intermediate

Friday, March 11, 2022

Live Interactive Webinar

10:00 AM EST - 12:00 PM EST

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EARN 2 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Diana Dugan Richards, RDN, LDN

Diana Dugan Richards, RDN, LDN

Registered Dietitian, Certified IFS Practitioner
As a registered, licensed dietitian for over 20 years and nutrition therapist Diana offers a non-diet approach in setting a foundation of curiosity for clients to discover their own eating philosophy and beliefs. She partners with other IFS colleagues to offer introductory and continuing education courses to other nutrition professionals. She is a Level 3 certified IFS practitioner, serves as training staff for many trainings and retreats, and participates in IFIO couples’ trainings. She offers consultation to dietitians and therapists interested in integrating IFS into their practice. Diana offers safety and warmth to all people regardless of shape, size, age, faith, gender, ethnicity, skin color, and sexual orientation.

CE Information - Earn 2 CE Credit Hours

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Sponsors

Fairhaven Treatment Center

Fairhaven is a Residential and Outpatient Treatment Center in Memphis, TN for adult women and adolescent girls that offers an opportunity for full recovery from eating disorders and disordered eating in a structured, supportive & tranquil therapeutic environment. 

We use proven evidence-based therapy for eating disorder symptoms & co-occurring problems such as trauma, attachment disorders, anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), & other challenges that contribute to and perpetuate the disorder.

Fairhaven's approach to nutrition stability and rehabilitation is founded on the evidence-based concepts of Intuitive Eating and the Statter Eating Competence Model. Our overarching guiding principle is to help you nourish your body and mind, not only so that you can reach recovery, but so you can experience joy in eating while living life to its fullest. 

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