Live Webinar

Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in Eating Disorder Treatment

Kate Geoghegan, LCPC, NCC
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Information

Date & Time

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Define the six core components of the ACT hexaflex.

  • Summarize 1-2 existing research findings on ACT’s utility in eating disorder treatment.

  • Identify 2-3 ACT based interventions with potential utility in eating disorder treatment.

Educational Goal

To develop increased knowledge of and familiarity with ACT, its current role and uses in eating disorder treatment, and build an understanding of how ACT concepts can be applied in ED treatment.

Description

This presentation explores the role and utility of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in eating disorder (ED) treatment. It provides a summary of ACT’s core elements and offers an overview of how ACT has been utilized in ED treatment to date. It outlines the uses of specific ACT interventions and concepts in ED treatment. It investigates how an ACT approach may help clients define a sense of identity not contingent on weight, shape, or size, and explores how ACT skills influence clients’ ability to tolerate uncomfortable internal experiences, a skill critical to ED recovery.

Target Audience

  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals

Presenters

Kate Geoghegan, LCPC, NCC
Kate Geoghegan supports Crossroads’ clients as a primary therapist in our Greater Portland Counseling Center providing clinical care for clients enrolled in our Eating Disorder Partial Hospitalization Program and Eating Disorder Intensive Outpatient Program. Kate’s clinical career at Crossroads began in 2021 providing individual and group therapy for clients at the Back Cove Women’s Residential Program. Kate is an experienced clinician in treating clients with anxiety, depression, PTSD and using CPT (Cognitive Processing Therapy) to support her client’s processing trauma. Prior to joining Crossroads, Kate served as a therapist for Monte Nido and Affiliates at the Laurel Hill Residential Program and did a clinical practicum with the Renfrew Center of Boston.

Financially Sponsored By

  • Crossroads