About this live event

Learning Objectives

• Describe the relationship between trauma exposure and eating disorders, including shared symptoms and risk factors identified in current research.
• Explain how trauma responses and eating disorder behaviors may functionally reinforce one another in clinical presentations.
• Identify evidence-based and trauma-informed treatment approaches that support integrated care for individuals experiencing both trauma-related symptoms and eating disorders.

Learning Levels

• Beginner

Target Audience

Agenda

Live event Instructor(s)

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  Jenny Beck, LPPC-S

  Site Director, The Emily Program Columbus Residential

  Jenny Beck, LPPC-S is currently the Executive Director at The Emily Program’s Columbus Adolescent Residential site, for which she personally oversaw and directed the site launch in January 2022. Jenny has been a therapist since 2006, and in that time, she has worked at the outpatient, intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization, and residential levels of care. She has treated clients of all genders and ranging in age from six to their late 60. Jenny has provided treatment for a variety of mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, OCD, trauma, personality disorders, mood disorders, and eating disorders. Her area of specialty is eating disorders, a field in which she has 13 years of clinical training and direct care experience. Jenny has worked in schools, universities, hospital systems, non-profit organizations, and national healthcare systems. She has received intensive training in several modalities, including Family Based Therapy, Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and Prolonged Exposure.

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  M Mullan, LPCC-S

  Columbus Adolescent Residential Clinical Manager

  M Mullan is passionate about reducing barriers to eating disorder treatment and recovery. Trauma experiences are frequently such a barrier. Consequently, M has been trained in multiple evidenced-based trauma treatment modalities, including the fundamentals of Prolonged Exposure (PE). M has also received advanced trainings and expert supervision in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and is as an approved CPT provider. For eating disorders, M has over a decade of experience and worked at all levels of care. She currently serves as The Emily Program Columbus Clinical Director over Residential, PHP, IOP, and Outpatient levels of care.

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