Eating Disorders and Christmas: Navigating Holidays with Clients
Three-Hour Online Workshop | Tuesday 3rd December | Angelique da Silva
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This workshop is designed to equip professionals with the knowledge and tools to support clients with eating disorders to navigate Xmas.
The holiday season, particularly Christmas, can be a stressful time for individuals with eating disorders. The emphasis on food, family gatherings, and societal expectations around indulgence can exacerbate disordered eating behaviours and create anxiety. This 3 hour CPD workshop is designed to equip professionals with the knowledge and tools to support clients navigating these challenges, with a specific focus on Christmas-related stressors.
Why should you do this workshop?
This workshop will provide professionals with a better understanding of the unique challenges that Christmas poses for individuals with eating disorders. The holiday season can amplify anxiety around food, social gatherings, and family interactions, all of which may trigger disordered eating behaviours. This course equips healthcare providers and therapists with practical strategies and culturally sensitive approaches to support clients in managing these stressors, helping them maintain recovery during a high-risk period. Participants will gain tools for holiday-specific interventions, enhancing their ability to provide compassionate, effective care.
What You Will Learn
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
1. Understand the unique challenges Christmas poses for individuals with eating disorders.
2. Identify key triggers associated with Christmas, such as food celebrations, social pressures, and family dynamics.
3. Learn practical therapeutic interventions to help clients manage holiday stressors and maintain recovery during the festive season.
4. Gain insight into developing personalised, sensitive treatment plans for clients during this time.
5. Take away tools and strategies to foster positive coping mechanisms and support for both clients and their families.
Who is this event for?
This course is aimed at trainee counsellors and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists, healthcare professionals, helping professionals, fitness instructors, social workers.
Meet the Tutor: Angelique da Silva
Angelique is a psychodynamic therapist working from a psychoanalytic approach, focusing on relationships from as early as the prenatal stage. She works with the unconscious mind, believing that
understanding the roots of our relationship patterns can help us relate better to others and make meaningful changes for a more fulfilling life.
Angelique became an eating disorder therapist after recognising the deep connection between food, body image, and emotional struggles rooted in early relationship patterns. Using a psychodynamic approach, she helps clients explore the unconscious origins of their eating behaviours, often tied to unresolved childhood experiences. Angelique is passionate about guiding individuals toward breaking free from these patterns, fostering self-awareness, and developing healthier relationships with food, their bodies, and themselves. Her goal is to support lasting change and empower clients to live more balanced and fulfilling lives.
Workshop date and cost
Online, Tuesday 3rd December 10:00-13:00
General admission £35.00
IMC Student / Graduate Ticket £26.50
IMC Students in Advanced Training £45.00
