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All members of the Сòòò½ÊÓƵ. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC Related seminars and products

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Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC, has supported people who are healing from disordered eating, body shame, and the impact of weight bias and other traumas. Her work as a therapist, facilitator, educator, speaker, and writer, has been a study of what interrupts our sense of wholeness and how we can return to ourselves in a culture that profits from fragmentation.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Hilary Kinavey is the co-founder of Center for Body Trust and has an employment relationship with Lewis and Clark College. She receives royalties as a published author. Hilary Kinavey receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Сòòò½ÊÓƵ. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Hilary Kinavey has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD Related seminars and products

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Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD, is a registered dietician who helps people divest from diet culture, explore what it means to be embodied, and move toward a more compassionate form of radical care. Her work as a speaker, educator, and trainer focuses on humanizing health care, advancing health equity, and advocating for food and body sovereignty.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dana Sturtevant maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Сòòò½ÊÓƵ. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dana Sturtevant is a member of the Association for Size Diversity and Health, the Columbia River Eating Disorder Network, and the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.

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Objectives

1. Utilize Bobbie Harro’s Cycle of Socialization to help clients understand influences on their body relationship. 
2. Identify the diagnostic differences between binge eating disorder (BED) and atypical anorexia (AAN). 
3. Determine scope of practice when discussing diet and nutrition. 
4. Identify “bad body days” and “food noise” with clients using the Body Trust Framework. 
5. Determine the role of grief in body image healing. 
6. Develop clinical spaces to be size-inclusive and fat-affirming.

Outline

Rethink the Foundations: Body Trust, Bias, and the Limits of Traditional Models

• Key terminology and paradigm shifts in body image work
• Weight-Inclusive Models of Care: Evidence-based support for moving beyond weight-centric practices
• Bobbie Harro’s Cycle of Socialization and Niva Piran’s Developmental Theory of Embodiment
• Understand anti-fat bias: how it shapes clinical practice and client experience
• The overlap between intentional weight loss and disordered eating
• Navigate scope of practice when discussing food, nutrition, and body image
• Risks, limitations and ethical considerations

Clinical Tools for Navigating Food, Weight, and Body Talk

• How to apply the Body Trust Framework and foster weight-inclusive, non-stigmatizing care
• Strateiges to explore the Cycle of Coping in diet culture and help clients make sense of their behaviors
• Interventions for navigating “bad body days” and reducing distress from persistent “food noise”
• Tools to support clients through body grief and build size acceptance with clinical sensitivity
• Strategies to reframe conversations about “health,” wellness, and control in ways that honor client autonomy and lived experience

Help without Harming

• Self-reflection: Explore your own body story as a provider
• Create size-inclusive clinical spaces (language, environment, policies)
• Ethically responding to client comments about weight, body changes, aging, and chronic illness
• Clinical considerations around GLP-1 agonists (Ozempic, Mounjaro, etc.) in the context of eating disorders and body trust

Clinical Case Studies & Application

• 43-year-old male with restrictive eating and prior BED diagnosis, considering GLP-1 medication
• 32-year-old female with chronic health issues and AAN, often receives dietary advice that worsens ED symptoms
• 27-year-old trans man with restrictive eating and compulsive exercise
• 53-year-old woman with trauma history and “compulsive overeating,” seeking ED treatment

Bring It Home: How to Practice Body Trust-Informed Therapy with Confidence and Care

• Integration tools to assess your current clinical approach and identify weight-centric areas of improvement
• Strategies for updating intake forms, language, and policies to reflect a weight-inclusive stance
• Self-reflection prompts to clarify your body story and how it shapes therapeutic relationships
• Guidance on handling common clinical dilemmas (e.g., client weight loss goals, medical referrals, family pressure)
• Resources for continued learning and supervision to support sustainable, ethical growth
• Next-step planning: Map out one change you’ll make this week, one conversation you’ll have, and one resource you’ll explore

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Nurses
• Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Techniques
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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