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10 Ways to Improve Mood with Food
Integrative strategies to reduce trauma symptomatology
Dr. Leslie Korn believes that nutritional therapy is the most important missing piece in trauma treatment today. In this blog, she shares 10 lifestyle changes that will help clients improve their mood... and the symptoms of their trauma.
3 Proven Strategies to Reduce Vulnerability to Panic
Techniques to use in your daily life to prevent future panic attacks
Not only can clinicians help clients develop strategies to cope during a panic attack, but we can also provide them with tools and strategies to make future panic attacks less likely. Elena Welsh, PhD, shares three long-term strategies to reduce vulnerability to panic.
Taking an Integrative Approach to PTSD & Complex Trauma
A case study with Dr. Leslie Korn
Treating trauma is complicated, challenging, deeply personal, and never one size fits all. Dr. Leslie Korn demonstrates how she used an integrative approach to help a client address her mood, sleep, and chronic pain.
5 Tips for Body Positivity & Anti-Diet Culture
Discover how to help clients reclaim their relationship with food and find joy in eating
Anti-diet experts Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS, and Judith Matz, LCSW, answer some of their most frequently asked questions about anti-diet culture, emotional eating, body image, fat stigma, and more.
How To Reject Diet Culture This Holiday Season
Help clients set boundaries, find support, and make peace with food
Anti-diet experts Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS, and Judith Matz, LCSW, share their insight on how to help clients navigate difficult conversations surrounding weight and food this holiday season.
10 Body Positive Affirmations for the New Year
Here are 10 Body Positive affirmations to help clients heal body shame & cultivate body positivity.
Trauma changes more than the mind
Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, reveals how mental health conditions contribute to memory loss, dementia and diabetes
Discover why combining your mental health knowledge with the latest research in integrative approaches and nutrition can build rapport with clients and enhance clinical outcomes help.
Working with Eating Concerns in the Time of Corona
How therapists can help clients avoid self-judgment at this time.
The current crisis is triggering many clients with eating and weight issues, due to the combination of increased stress, disrupted shopping and eating habits, and the increased cultural focus on food. Judith Matz, a therapist and author specialising in disordered eating, suggests how therapists can help clients avoid self-judgment at this time, and move towards making the choices that best support their physical and emotional wellbeing.
3 Misconceptions About Body Positivity
Help clients let go of body shame, feel more at home in their own bodies, and transform diet culture.
Judith Matz, LCSW shares 3 common misconceptions about body positivity to consider as you work with clients to move from body shame to body positivity.
Letting Go Of Body Shame in a Weight-Focused World
Foster conversations to combat weight stigma
Each of us has an obligation to address our biases so that we no longer contribute, even inadvertently, to the fat shaming our clients may feel as the result of our own attitudes.