Using Mindfulness Techniques to Treat Eating Disorders
Treatment of eating disorders poses unique challenges for providers. Western mental health has become increasingly interested in using the Buddhist practice of mindfulness as a means of therapeutic change. This presentation looks at the role of mindfulness in treating eating disorders as part of a comprehensive treatment paradigm.
Participants will be able to:
- The core qualities of mindfulness.
- The healing potential of mindfulness.
- Bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa and binge-eating disorder.
- The typical treatment modalities for eating disorders.
- Mindfulness-based treatments including mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and cognitive emotional behavioral therapy for eating disorders (CEBT-ED).
- Specific mindfulness treatment techniques.
Marty Slyter,
Ph.D., NCC, LMHC, LPC
Marty Slyter has over 30 years of experience as a professional counselor, having worked in youth corrections, the public school system and a community college counseling center. She has been a counselor educator since 1999. Dr. Slyter has taught in both school counseling and mental health counseling programs in addition to serving as coordinator of two school counseling training programs and program director for an entire graduate counseling program. She is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington and a licensed professional counselor in Colorado.
Dr. Slyter has a bachelor’s degree in theater and communications education from the University of Colorado-Boulder; a master’s degree in psychology, counseling and guidance from the University of Northern Colorado; and a doctorate in counselor education and supervision from the University of Northern Colorado.
Dr. Slyter currently resides in Westminster, Colorado, and is core faculty at Walden University in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program. She is the primary lead faculty for the program’s multicultural counseling courses. Her professional areas of interest are effective treatment of eating disorders, adolescent issues, art therapy techniques and counselor wellness.
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