Our Bodies in the Room

This webinar is for clinicians working in eating disorders and disordered eating care who want to work more ethically, reflexively, and embodied with their clients.

Across the session, you’ll be invited to move towards a more aware, grounded and honest way of being in the room.

In this webinar, you will:

• Explore the “bodies in the room” – yours and your clients’.
  Understand how actual, perceived, and socially constructed bodies shape what happens in session, and why your own body and social location are always part of the work.

• Unpack power, identity, and culture in eating disorder treatment.
  Reflect on how patriarchy, weight stigma, medical culture, and ideas about “good” patients and “good” bodies influence your practice, often outside of awareness.

• Work with transference, countertransference, and “our stuff”.
  Recognise how your lived experience, biases, and unprocessed material can blur boundaries, reinforce hierarchies, or inadvertently align with the eating disorder.

• Deepen your understanding of embodied practice for clinicians.
  Reframe eating disorders as disruptions of embodied selfhood, and explore what it means to show up as an embodied, responsive clinician—especially when things feel uncertain, messy, or uncomfortable.

• Learn a practical reflective framework you can take into supervision.
  Be guided through a simple, repeatable process (the MIRRORS framework) to notice what’s happening in your body, make sense of it, and decide what’s ethically yours to hold, shift, or take to supervision/therapy.

• See it all applied through a real-world style case vignette.
  Walk through a composite case of a midlife clinician working with a highly controlled, restrictive client, and watch how this reflective, embodied lens changes the work.

• Clarify when you need supervision vs personal therapy.
  Untangle what belongs in clinical supervision and what needs deeper therapeutic support for you as a clinician, so you’re not carrying it alone.

You’ll leave with:

• A clearer language to talk about your body in the work without making sessions about you.
• Increased awareness of how power and culture show up in eating disorder treatment.
• A practical, repeatable way to notice, regulate, and reflect on your own responses.
• More confidence to keep self-reflection as a core clinical skill, not an optional extra.

This isn’t about becoming the perfect clinician.

It’s about being more aware, ethical, and effective—for you, and for the people you sit with.