Melting Away Resistance in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

with Donna Fish, LCSW-R

Patients with eating disorders initially seek change and experience distress. However, the underlying reasons for their eating disorder often resurface.

This workshop will focus on:

• Outcome and Process Resistances: Learn to assess common resistances that may exist and emerge. Gain skills to recognize and address these resistances early in the work, or to establish a different agenda.
• Therapist Tools: Acquire specific tools to use with patients at the outset to establish the agenda for therapy.
• Symptom Advantages: Discover ways to positively reframe and maintain the advantages of symptoms.
• Safety and the Gentle Ultimatum: Develop strategies to ensure safety and set up a treatment plan effectively, reducing pressure on the therapist to prompt patient change.

About Presenter: 

Donna Fish is a Level 4 TEAM CBT Therapist/Trainer . She lives in New York City where she consults, teaches and runs a private practice.

She has been a faculty member and guest lecturer at Columbia University, Harvard Medical School Continuing Ed. Dept, NYU and Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy’s CSAB division.

Following the publication of her book “Take the Fight out of Food” Donna taught workshops across the US and Canada, hosted a WEB MD series on Living Well with Depression and was the keynote speaker for the Minnesota School Board Annual Convention. She was seen on multiple television networks, and has written multiple articles for “The Huffington Post” and “Psychology Today”.

Recently, Donna was featured with Fareed Zakaria on the podcast “Go Ask Ali: Our New World Inside and Out” and can be heard on the “David Burns Feeling Good Podcast” speaking on Eating Disorders. (No.259)

Donna recently taught at the TEAM CBT European Conference in Poland, and she continues to train therapists worldwide in her eating disorder workshops. With her prior 10 year career as a professional dancer, Donna consults with The School of American Ballet, The Juilliard School and NYU’s Dance Dept where she teaches a workshop titled: “Mental Fitness: How to Survive and Thrive in the Dance World”.

For any questions, including those about accessibility or to request accommodations, please contact Cara at Csab@icpnyc.org

An important note about CEUs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis, ie 54321 (CA).

Continuing Education Information

 NYS Continuing Education Information

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts.

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the NYS Education Department State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education credit for licensed social workers.

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors.

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists.

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists.

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists.