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Help Your Patients Heal from Out-of-Control Eating

How Solve Your Out-of-Control Eating Works

Our job as mental health professionals is to establish a feelingful alliance with individuals, many of whom have experienced disappointing early relationships and turn to food for comfort and distraction from unbearable feelings.

However, as therapists, counselors, psychoanalysts, and psychologists, our work can be challenging when we struggle to find the appropriate words, listen to feelings, and search for clues to support our patients.

We are creating resources for professionals like you, to to help you master therapeutic techniques that work with resistance and common defense mechanisms.
Empowering Licensed Mental Health Professionals to Treat Those Who Struggle with Out-of-Control Eating

Helping You Get Unstuck with Therapy Approaches for Individuals with Eating Disorders

We're often unaware of a patient's cry for help in the subtlety of their language. If you encounter these scenarios, our resources are for you.
Helping You Get Unstuck with Therapy Approaches
  • You have a desire to help patients but aren't making progress.
  • You often hear the phrase: "I have no idea why I eat so much. I just do."
  • You are unsure how to diagnose eating disorders.
  • You want to understand and speak their language to make strides forward.
  • You want to sharpen your skills but need assistance from an experienced consultant.
  • You lack the necessary resources when it comes to irrational eating disorders.

Help Your Patients Break the Cycle of Irrational Eating with These Resources

Your patients are often unaware of their complex web of feelings due to their defense mechanisms, which may include acting out through food.

Based on our decades of mental health experience, we're here to assist you with practical training, real-life examples, techniques, and language that supports your practice.

Meet the Expert and Founder: Victoria Todd, MSSA, FABP

Hi, I’m Vickie.

I am so grateful that you want to help those who struggle with eating. For 30 years, I've worked with patients with eating difficulties ranging from anorexia and bulimia to binge eating disorders.

As I uncovered a common thread among patients, I realized that eating disorders aren't always obvious to diagnose. There is a lot of overlap. For instance, individuals suffering from anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating may look different, but they all express concerns about out-of-control eating.

That's why I had the idea to offer this website and its many resources to help mental health professionals like you connect and learn from each other. It's the same strategy employed by our book: to learn from the stories of others.

We are creating a vibrant community that will provide endless opportunities for learning so we can all better assist those we serve.

Victoria Todd
Victoria Todd, Child and Adult Psychoanalyst
Credentials/About
Vickie Todd (M.S.S.A., Case Western Reserve University) is a devoted psychoanalyst who helps people suffering tremendously from eating difficulties break free from their bondage and experience the life they were intended to live.

Vickie brings 16 years of psychoanalytic training to her expert writings and has previously served as a Child Psychoanalyst and Consultant and Faculty Member at Hanna Perkins Center for Research in Child Development.

She is also a contributing writer for Yale University Press Psychoanalytic Study of the Child and Supervising Adult Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center.

Vickie's vision is to change the systemic model of how we address food behaviors, using this book as a platform. She currently resides in northeast Ohio with her husband.
Teaching Style: Learn from Vickie
I like to say that my teaching style is refreshing and compelling. Students easily engage with me because I utilize simple terminology to describe complex theories for all experience levels. But what they like best is the presentation style of teaching through clinical vignettes. This skit-like approach has proven very successful when teaching assorted classes for the psychiatric residents at the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals as well as the psychoanalytic candidates at Hanna Perkins Center for Research in Child Development and the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center.


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