Beyond Body Challenges: Understanding Disordered Eating Behaviors in Pregnancy and Postpartum with Emma Murphy, MIACP
Monday November 17th at 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Irish Time - Takes Place Via Zoom with The Perinatal Mental Health Institute
Includes Certificate of Attendance, Access to Recorded Version and All Resources Mentioned in the Training - €20
Clients experiencing disordered eating during pregnancy and postpartum face significantly higher risk of worsening symptoms; not because they lack willpower, but because of complex biological triggers, hormonal fluctuations, identity shifts, and the challenging balance between normal weight changes as body based fears and anxieties. This 90-minute training provides evidence-based strategies and practical tools to help professionals supporting these clients deliver compassionate and informed care. You'll gain understanding of the specific challenges clients with eating struggles face, while also learning to distinguish between normal perinatal changes and behaviours requiring specialized intervention and support
What You'll Learn:
· Understanding unique challenges of disordered eating during the perinatal period
· Essential assessment skills and questions that build therapeutic relationships
· Key personality traits common in adults with eating struggles
· Critical differences between helpful and harmful nutritional support approaches
· Why traditional behaviour change strategies often fail during pregnancy and postpartum
· Biological and psychological triggers amplified during the perinatal period
· Unconscious protective functions that eating behaviours serve
· When and how to refer for specialized eating disorder treatment
· Creating compassionate care frameworks that validate complexity without pathologizing normal changes
Emma Murphy, MIACP - Psychotherapist & Eating Disorder Specialist
Emma Murphy (@EatingFreely) is an esteemed psychotherapist with over 15 years of specialization in disordered eating and a member of the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Having worked in private practice for over 15 years, Emma has developed a deep understanding of the complexities involved in emotional eating and binge eating disorders (BED).
Her extensive experience working with individuals and groups across the entire spectrum of disordered eating led to the development of the Eating Freely™ Program, a structured, trauma-informed model of working with adults experiencing emotional eating and binge eating disorder. Emma is driven by a mission to increase awareness and understanding of the role of trauma in emotional eating and binge eating disorder, particularly among healthcare professionals and the public.
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