Body Image Workshop for Clinicians with Zoë Bisbing
Join us for skills for you to build a body-positive practice to treat eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image injuries.
Friday, September 19th
UAA, Beatrice McDonald Hall, 2400 W Campus Dr, Anchorage, AK 99508
This event is also being offered virtually.
8 AM - 4 PM AKST
This special conference addresses the relationship between body image/harmful cultural norms around appearance and eating disorders. Zoe Bisbing, MSW, LCSW will recognize the role body image plays in the development and treatment of eating disorders and provide clinicians with tools to prevent, screen and treat eating disorders.
CE's will be offered for this training. CE application for continuing education credit is pending.
Light breakfast, coffee, and full lunch provided with in-person registrations.
PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE THE CONFERENCE WITH
Practical and tangible body-positive intervention and treatment knowledge, clinical frameworks and case examples to take into practice
Knowledge and resources to combat body image issues for families of children and youth to help prevent development of eating disorders
An increased understanding of how a negative body image/specific body image culture contributes to eating disorders
Space to reflect and confront their own biases
CONFERENCE TOPICS
Eating disorders and body positive basics
The development and ruptures of body image, embodiment, and our relationship with food
Assessing for body image injuries, embodiment ruptures, and disordered eating across the lifespan
Setting up a relational, integrative treatment for adults
Special considerations for tweens and teens
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Zoë Bisbing, MSW, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist, speaker, and educator specializing in body image
healing and eating disorder prevention. She is the founding director of Body-Positive Therapy NYC and has
been in clinical practice since 2009, working with children, adolescents, and adults across the disordered
eating spectrum. Zoë began her career on the eating disorders inpatient unit at NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital/Payne Whitney Westchester, where she supported individuals and families navigating severe
presentations of anorexia, bulimia, and co-occurring psychiatric conditions. These early experiences
deepened her understanding of the complexity of eating disorders—and the systemic barriers many people
face when their suffering doesn’t meet narrow medical criteria for care.
In addition to her clinical work, Zoë is the creator of Body-Positive Home, an educational and healing platform through which she offers workshops and guidance to parents, professionals, and students on building body image resilience and body respect for the next generation. Zoë is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York State. She holds a Master of Social Work from New York University, a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College, and certification in Family-Based Treatment (FBT) from the Institute for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders. She has also completed advanced training in Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E) through the Centre for Research on Eating Disorders at Oxford.
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