The Importance of Connection, Compassion, Trauma-Informed and Person-Centred Care for People with Eating Disorders

About this event

Elizabeth Cummings: Therapist working in the area of grief, trauma, and eating disorders, Author and Lived Experience ED Carer

Join EDFA to hear Elizabeth talk about the importance of connection, compassion, person-centred and trauma-informed care for people with eating disorders and how do we bring it into support and treatment at home?

We will explore together strategies and practices that can enhance our unwell loved ones’ healing and recovery, as well as our own wellbeing.

Elizabeth is a registered counsellor and psychotherapist specialising in working with young people and their families. Trained in Family Based Therapy (FBT), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for eating disorders (CBT-E), and Collaborative Carer Skills Workshop (CCSW). With a professional interest in bringing together creativity and lived experience, Elizabeth takes an integrative approach, including person-centred, behavioural, cognitive, psychodynamic, and mindfulness theoretical orientation. Elizabeth has further training in trauma-informed child and youth mind and body practices with the YogaEd Academy and the NALAG (National Association of Loss and Grief) as well as in visual arts, creative dance and drama to help support clients according to their unique situation.

Elizabeth’s first book The Disappearing Sister (EC PRESS 2015) has gained attention for its simple explanation of eating disorders aimed at siblings and families. Elizabeth writes poetry and won the HARP Writers’ Prize in 2015 for a poem about gender and identity. The latest picture book, The Forever Kid (Big Sky Publishing; October 2018) deals with themes of grief and remembrance.