Presenters: Lee Crothers and Katerina Chin-A-Loy

This four-hour online workshop introduces Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) as a relational framework for understanding and working with eating disorders. CAT integrates cognitive and psychodynamic theories to explore how recurring patterns between self and others maintain distress. CAT offers an integrative, collaborative, time-limited model that addresses these challenges by supporting client, clinician and teams to understand and work through relational patterns that could drive and maintain eating disorders. CAT’s transdiagnostic nature allows for its use in the eating disorder field where there has been an increase in ‘clinical complexity’. Its collaborative nature tends to make CAT highly acceptable by clients which can favour engagement.

Through interactive teaching, clinical case examples, video and experiential reflective exercises, participants will be introduced to key CAT concepts including reciprocal roles, procedural sequences, and reformulation. This workshop will aim at presenting the theory and principles of CAT while offering a practical framework to reflect on common relational dynamics in eating disorders. These insights can be integrated to eating disorder evidence-based treatments for engagement enhancement, therapeutic alliance and responsiveness. The webinar is suitable for clinicians and allied health professionals interested in implementing relational thinking, reflective practice, and specific CAT tools into their work with eating disorders and complexity.

Workshop aims:

• To understand the basic principles of CAT and how they apply to working alongside people with eating disorders.
• To introduce key CAT concepts (e.g. reciprocal roles) that typically underlie eating disorder presentations and to provide practical tools (mapping) for use in formulation and intervention.
• To reflect on the professional’s/system’s role in the relational dynamics of eating distress.
• To provide clinical examples to illustrate the use of CAT in eating disorder treatment.
• To practice some of the CAT skills such as formulating using mapping.

PRESENTERS:
Lee Crothers is an Occupational Therapist and Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) practitioner with over thirty years’ experience in public mental health and private practice. As Co-Director of In Dialogue and Relate & Reflect and Vice-Chair of ANZACAT, she specialises in relational approaches to complex mental health and eating disorders. Lee’s work focuses on using CAT to help clients, families, and teams recognise and shift relational patterns that maintain distress, and to foster collaboration in recovery—however it is defined by the person.

Katerina Chin-A-Loy is a clinical psychologist working in public and private mental health with over 15 years of experience working in the eating disorder field. Katerina is trained in evidence-based eating disorder specific models such as FBT, CBT-E, SSCM, while holding a psychodynamic frame. During the last few years, Katerina has been using Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) to work with eating disorders and psychological complexity. She is a credentialed eating disorder mental health practitioner (CEDC-MH) and a Psychology Board of Australia accredited supervisor.

Workshop Pricing:
ANZAED Members - $180 | Non Members - $240

This workshop will be held online. A Zoom link will be sent to your email 24 hours prior to the Workshop.
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