Elevate Your Practice: Understanding Eating Disorders

DO YOU ENCOUNTER EATING DISORDERS IN YOUR PRACTICE?

This workshop is created for you to give you practical insights to recognize, understand, and effectively intervene with eating disorders, even if it’s not your specialty.

TOPICS WE’LL COVER:

• Spot the Signs: Learn to identify the subtle cues and overt symptoms of eating disorders, empowering you to intervene early and effectively.
• Leverage Your Skills: Discover how your existing toolkit as an RCC can be applied to eating disorder treatment, making your interventions more impactful.
• Demystify Eating Disorders: Break down the myths and misconceptions surrounding eating disorders, so you feel empowered to approach treatment with confidence and clarity.
• Empower Clients: Equip yourself with evidence-based approaches for working with clients of all ages and their families, addressing perfectionism, rigidity, and shame.
• Create a team: Don’t treat eating disorders alone! Clients with Eating Disorders can be complex and suffer from serious medical complications. Learn how to enlist other professionals to address medical and nutritional aspects of recovery and whenever possible involve your clients’ loved ones.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

MARKETA NYKL, Ed, RCC

I’m a Registered Clinical Counsellor with a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Simon Fraser University. I have over 14 years of experience working with youth, adults, and families in a variety of therapeutic settings. Most of my professional life has been dedicated to individuals struggling with disordered eating and their loved ones. I am also a parent of three children, which I believe has made me a much more humble, compassionate, and empathetic human being. The quality of our lives is largely determined by the quality of our relationships — to ourselves, to our bodies, to others, to nature, and to the world around us. We need to belong and to be safely connected in order to thrive. I fundamentally believe that life does not have to hurt so much. Therapy can help us to heal and transform old emotional wounds, to learn new ways of coping and engaging in relationships, to increase our capacity for compassion, joy, and openness. I am dedicated to helping my clients to feel better, to go from surviving to thriving.

Areas of Specialization

• Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating in Adolescents and Adults
• Over-controlled coping and perfectionism
• Couples’ Counselling
• Parental stress and advanced parenting skills for parenting a “superfeeler”
• Coping with Stress, Life Transitions, Relationships
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Clinical Supervision

Therapeutic Approaches

• Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT Certified Therapist)
• Emotion Focused Therapy for Individuals and Couples (Level I in EFT for Individuals from ISEFT, Level I EFT for Couples from VCEFT)
• Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO-DBT – ongoing)
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (participated in multiple intensive  DBT trainings with Behavioral Tech – Linehan Institute)