We deliver professionally approved, specialist training for mental health professionals who want to work with adults struggling with Emotional Eating, Binge Eating Disorder and Bulimia, and provide ongoing support to our Practitioners to grow a thriving, stress-free practice.
Eating Freely is about so much more than just training to work with clients with Emotional Eating, Binge Eating Disorder and Bulimia. Our goal is to create a genuine, compassion-led movement that supports both all our Clients AND our therapists to not just survive, but to thrive.
As a health professional in any discipline, it is unlikely you will go any length of time without having clients who are struggling with one or more of the above issues. The problem is, when does their presenting problem tip over from support around food, weight loss and exercise – or indeed something apparently unrelated like anxiety or low mood - and into Disordered Eating, which is not about food or weight, but about feelings and emotions?
Quite apart from every client we have ever had being in and out of every diet and weight loss program imaginable, I’ve lost count of the clients who have told me they went to see someone else before me, and although that other professional was able to help with their anxiety/relationship breakup/work related stress, the client will tell me “they didn’t really do anything about the food”, or “I don’t think they understood about my eating, they just ignored it”, or “they said if I sorted out my anxiety the emotional eating would go away, but it hasn’t”.
We know that up to 30% of adults seeking support with weight loss actually meet the criteria for Disordered Eating. And they will NEVER find the solution they are looking for in a diet or weight loss program, because those service providers do not understand disordered eating and mis-diagnose those clients as having a food/weight issue, not an emotional or mental health issue.
These clients are significantly under-served – by the weight loss industry to be sure, but also by Coaches and Therapists who do not have the specialist skills to resolve disordered eating. And this specialist service is in high demand – 30% of adults within the US$100 billion+ weight loss industry cannot find the help they truly need. That’s where we come in.
Our Practitioners contract with their clients on the program they wish to work with, and clients pay up front, or in 2-3 installments for the 6 or 12 session program. This immediately offers you some reliability around your income.
Programs are delivered to clients 1-to-1*, and include client access to additional online resources, a peer community group of other program participants and the ability for Therapists/coaches to share additional material, resources and support with their clients via the via the Eating Freely App. This between-session support is a valuable component of the program to clients.
As a specialist in this under-served and in-demand area, offering valuable between session support via our online resources, you can charge a higher fee per session for the programs you offer, and we know clients are happy to pay for specialist, expert support.
Our Eating Freely Practitioners can offer three different types of support - 2 levels of one to one program and a 1 day group workshop. The Mindfulness for Emotional Eating Workshop is always a popular event, and attendees pay up front in advance to attend. This Workshop can also be offered to groups, clubs and corporate clients as a valuable Health and Wellness initiative. Let's face it, we all need to get out of the chair sometimes, and this workshop is a great way to do that - and you will have attendees wanting to work with you afterwards too.
We provide a comprehensive package of training and support for all of our Licensees, as follows:
CPD APPROVED CLINICAL TRAINING
New Licensees can choose to attend training either online or in-person, both of which incorporates full training in your chosen program, as well as all the tools and resources you need to work with clients so you can get started straight away on completion of the training. Our training carries significant CPD points from the IACP in Ireland and the ACA in Australia, and internationally recognised CPD points from CPD UK.
FOLLOW UP ONLINE TRAINING
The clinical training is followed up with further online training to cover marketing and business systemisation of your practice administration - reducing stress and streamlining your business. Let's face it, Therapists in general are not the most business minded bunch, so we help you take the fear and stress out of growing your private practice, in two ways:
- Comprehensive training in marketing
We'll provide you with expert training in how to market yourself locally as an Emotional Eating Specialist and/or Specialist Therapist in Binge Eating Disorder and Bulimia, plus all the branded marketing materials you need to do so.
- Training in the business of therapy
Not all Therapists are naturally good administrators! Part of our training gives practical support in how to put systems and some easy to use software in place to make your life a whole lot easier and less stressful. We believe that by supporting our therapists in being successful, we will reach more clients who need our help. And when you make a good living from your chosen work… that’s when you are participating in a wonderful circle of mutual reciprocity with your clients. The better you are at what you do and how you do it, the more clients you can support.
PROTECTED CATCHMENT AREA
We guarantee you access to a defined geographical territory, and will only award a certain number of licenses in any given area to ensure all Practitioners receive regular referrals and can build a successful practice through our network.
BRAND AWARENESS RAISING
We fully support all of our Therapists with our centralised website for Eating Freely worldwide which means:
a) We will link your website with ours so potential clients in your area can easily contact you from our website;
b) We use geo-targeted ads for Google to raise awareness of where our Therapists are located;
c) We will provide full training in how to successfully convert suitable enquiries into clients, and how to streamline your website and social media (if any) so your affiliation to Eating Freely and therefore your implied expertise is clear to your followers/potential clients.
ONGOING SUPPORT FROM EATING FREELY HQ
Within our Online Community you'll get:
- Monthly Online Peer Group Supervision;
- Membership of our online community of Therapists and Coaches via the Therapists Only Online Portal;
- Ongoing training and support in both developing your practice and supporting your clients.
Mary Catherine is a former client who has since gone on from working in engineering, to pursue her own training and studies in helping others. Mary's health was extremely poor when she first came to me, she was experiencing suicidal ideation, was in significant pain and had a lot of unresolved trauma. Hear how the Eating Freely Program helped her, by combining the practical CBT tools and important nutritional rehabilitation she needed to get her body back working for her again (with Rachel her Nutritional Therapist), with the deeper, transformational work the program gets into in the later sessions. Mary is a true testament to the change we can initiate in clients with our program once the client is ready to do the work - as Mary was.
Eating Freely is currently accepting applications from suitably qualified Professionals to join our network.
Our Irish Therapists have worked with clients internationally online, from the UK to the USA to South Africa, Canada and the Middle East. Emotional and Binge Eating is a global issue, so wherever you are based, you are welcome to train with us and bring Eating Freely to your location.
Therapists in Ireland! We are particularly interested in hearing from Therapists in North Dublin, West Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Tipperary as currently we have no Therapists in these areas, but are receiving enquiries.
Dates: Thursday 21st - Saturday 23rd May 2020, plus a 3 hour Live Online Masterclass on Friday 29th May.
Times: 10am - 5pm each day 21 - 23rd May, plus 10am - 1pm on 29th.
Fee: €1,295, payable with a deposit of €250 and 11 monthly instalments of €95
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Full Payment Discount Fee: €995
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Dates: Commences Monday 7th September 2020.
This training blends video based modules with live online group calls and one 3 hour online Masterclass.
Live online group calls will be held weekly on Friday mornings from 10-11.30am on these dates:
Friday 11th, 18th and 25th September, Friday 2nd October.
The 3 hour live online masterclass will be from 10-1pm on Saturday 10th October.
Participants can expect to need a total of 6 hours per week to complete the program. An 80% attendance rate on the live online calls is required for full CPD certification and licensing as an Eating Freely Practitioner.
Fee: €1,295, payable with a deposit of €250 and 11 monthly instalments of €95
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Full Payment Discount Fee: €995
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Dates: Sunday 27th - Tuesday 29th September 2020, 10am - 5pm each day, plus a 3 hour online Masterclass. The masterclass will be from 10-1pm on Saturday 10th October.
Location: South Dublin, exact venue TBC.
Fee: €1,295, payable with a deposit of €250 and 11 monthly instalments of €95
Secure your place with a Deposit
Full Payment Discount Fee: €995
Secure your place with a full fee discount
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email me on emma(at)eatingfreely.com. I am happy to answer all queries by mail or on a call.
This is Melanie, who worked online from South Africa with a Therapist in Ireland.
We were truly delighted to see how Melanie did on our program working online with Sue, her Eating Freely Therapist and Linn, her Eating Freely Nutritional Therapist. It was an absolute joy for me to see this video and to see how Melanie has blossomed since she attended her assessment with me. I hope it gives you a sense of how our program works for our clients, which is what our work is all about - helping clients to break free from food obsession, guilt and shame, forever.
We take great care of our Therapists, so they can take great care of our clients.
We are a community of therapists and clients, all united in our desire to live our best lives, and support everyone else in the network to do the same.
We empower people to let go of their past with understanding, forgiveness and gratitude, so they can move on to live their OWN desired future.
We have an incredible opportunity right now to make a significant difference. Emotional Eating, Binge Eating Disorder and Bulimia need to be understood, recognised and talked about as part of the current focus on obesity-related health and wellbeing initiatives. Raising awareness and offering specialist support is our over-arching goal, but every Therapist in our network gets to make a significant difference in the lives of their clients, and community, every day - without compromising themselves or selling themselves short.
We don't take ourselves too seriously - it is VERY important to let our hair down and have some Irish inspired 'Craic' every now and then, that's why we will gather as a group annually to celebrate our community and contribution together!
So now that you know more about us and what we can offer you to significantly develop your practice, You can book your place on an in person or online training above.
But if you feel you need more information, please email me with a couple of good times to talk, and we'll confirm a phone or online video call. My direct email is emma(at)eatingfreely.com.
I am really looking forward to meeting you.
Warmly,
Emma
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