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Navigating Clients’ Eating and Body Image Challenges

CE Hours 2

About this live event

We live in a society that glorifies and moralizes thinness and “perfect” nutrition. Consequently, regardless of your clients’ presenting concerns, it is likely that many of them will express anxiety and/or dissatisfaction about their bodies or eating behaviors. As a clinician, do you know what to do when these concerns show up in the therapy room? In this session, we will discuss the biopsychosocial influences to eating behaviors and body image. We will identify warning signs and symptoms of eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image concerns. We will cover the Intuitive Eating and HAES® principles. Finally, we will explore tools, interventions, and resources for supporting clients who present with eating and body image concerns.

Learning Objectives

  • gain insight into biological, psychological, and social contributing factors to disordered eating, eating disorders, and body image challenges.
  • identify warning signs and symptoms of disordered eating, eating disorders, and body image challenges.
  • understand the Intuitive Eating and HAES® principles and how to utilize these in supporting their clients.
  • utilize tools, interventions, and resources for supporting clients who present with disordered eating, eating disorders, and body image challenges.

Target Audience

This educational activity is intended for behavioral health professionals and is an approved continuing education opportunity for Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage and Family Therapists.

Agenda

o 10:00 am – 10:05 am - Welcome/Introduction, Objectives

o 10:05 am – 10:20 am - Food Rules Activity, Discussion

o 10:20 am – 10:30 am - Biopsychosocial Influences

o 10:30 am – 10:40 am – Signs and Symptoms

o 10:40 am – 11:15 am – Handwriting Metaphor Activity, Intuitive Eating, HAES®

o 11:15 am – 11:45 am – Intervention Examples for Treating Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, and Body Image Challenges

o 11:45 am – 12:00 pm – Resources for Further Study, Referrals, Q&A

Live event Instructor(s)

  • Mari Ballas, MA, LPCC

    Mari Ballas, MA, LPCC (she/her/hers) earned her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at John Carroll University after receiving her BA in Psychology at The Ohio State University. Since obtaining her counseling license in 2015, she has worked in several outpatient settings with clients in the throes of eating disorders/disordered eating, body image issues, depression, anxiety, adjustment difficulties, and personality disorders. In 2021, she trained under Intuitive Eating co-originator, Evelyn Tribole, to become a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor (CIEC). That same year, she landed her dream role at The Intuitive Eating Center of Ohio, where she specializes in the treatment of eating and body image concerns. She views her clients through a Health At Every Size® (HAES®) lens, utilizing a blend of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She also finds value in how her lived experience with eating disorders enriches her therapeutic work with clients.

CE Process Info

Before the event, you will receive an email from CE-Go with access to the virtual event. After the event, you will receive access to your evaluation and continuing education certificate via a personalized "attendee dashboard" link, hosted on the CE-Go website. This link and access to the virtual event will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event.

Upon accessing the CE-Go "attendee dashboard", you will be able to:

  • Complete evaluation forms for the event
  • Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the CE-Go platform, please contact CE-Go at 888-498-5578 or by email at support@ce-go.com Please Note: Emails for this event will come from "support@ce-go.com".

If you have any continuing education related questions, please contact your event organizer.

Please make sure to check your spam/junk folder in case those emails get "stuck". We'd also suggest "Allowlisting" support@ce-go.com. This tells your email client that you know this sender and trust them, which will keep emails from this contact at the top of your inbox and out of the junk folder.

  • Ohio Psychological Association (OPA)

    Seasons Counseling Services is an approved provider of continuing education by The Ohio Psychological Association. OPA MCE Provider #: 814330954

  • Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, Marriage and Family Therapist Board (OCSWMFT)

    Seasons Counseling Services is an approved provider of continuing education by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Approval #RCST052302

Provider Disclosure

Seasons Counseling Services does not accept commercial support for our continuing education activities.

None of the planners or presenters working on our continuing education activities have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. We will not share participants’ names or contact information with ineligible companies or their agents without the explicit consent of the individual participants.

Technology

1. This virtual event will be hosted via Zoom, and you may be prompted to download or upgrade your Zoom app if using a mobile device. A strong WiFi connection will be required for best quality.


2. We recommend clicking your "Join Webinar" button early and checking that your speakers and video are on before the event begins. Attendee microphones are turned off by default when entering a webinar, but video is automatically on. In order to confirm attendance and active participation for the OPA and CSWMFT licensing boards, we ask that you keep your video on in order to engage with the presenter and attendees for the entirety of the session.


3. Please respect that no copying, recording, or distribution of live session content is allowed. CE's are provided for the "live" sessions only. This virtual event will not be recorded.

Disability Accommodation

ADA accommodations will be made in accordance with the law; please indicate your special needs upon registering at least 30 days prior to the event by sending an email to support@ce-go.com or by calling us at 888 498 5578. 

If you have additional needs or would like to request any accommodations that could improve your learning experience, please contact the Seasons Continuing Education Committee by reaching out to Jacqui Hoke (jacqui@seasonscounselingservices) or Carly Habenschuss (carly@seasonscounselingservices).

Accommodations available include: Auto-generated captions (Zoom meetings and webinars automatically provide live captioning), options to re-arrange your gallery view, keyboard accessibility through keyboard shortcuts for easy navigation, screen reader support to customize the audible announcements you want to hear with granular control over screen reader alerts, in addition to interpretation services and other accommodations as requested.

Seasons Grievance

If a grievance arises pertaining to continuing education activities or processes, please contact Carly Habenschuss or Jacqui Hoke via confidential email at Carly@seasonscounselingservices.com or Jacqui@seasonscounselingservices.com as soon as possible, so that the nature of the concern may be addressed in a timely fashion. If your grievance is not addressed to your satisfaction, you may contact Andy Erkis at Andy@seasonscounselingservices.com.
Navigating Clients’ Eating and Body Image Challenges
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  • Date
    Fri Jan 23rd, 2026
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    10:00am - 12:00pm EST

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