Find Your People- And Help Those Without Insurance

Jenny Copeland, PsyD

So many of us in the community, whether it’s in healthcare, or university settings, or fitness centers, are told “We don’t see eating disorders here”.

Dr. Copeland describes her setting in community mental health, and how they have grown to not only screen for eating disorders (and SHOCK to find many with Eds) but to provide excellent eating disorders care for those without insurance.

An important takeaway is to find your people who are willing to learn and train – this way more people can receive care. These case managers are like “Therapy Extenders”

We also learn what it’s like to have our bodies show up in the room, because our body as meaning in the room. What is Thin Privilege and how to work through grief if we are not in a privileged body.

It’s also important to have ‘lots of apologies’ for harm we didn’t intend to cause – not to have the client try to make us feel better, but showing them how WE are going to do the work.

What about standing on the scale? Is it more about the belief that it helps us ‘know how to eat’? Or could it be more about knowing how to feel?

Did you know that 70-80% of therapists are OC (over-controlled)? Dr. Copeland appreciates RO-DBT (radically open dialectical behavioral therapy) for people who like rules and routine and structure, and this is for eating disorders and so much more.

Reconnect Eating Disorders Center – Quality, evidence based compassionate treatment for people without insurance.

http://www.moedc.org/ Missouri Eating Disorders Council

IG - @bodyuprogram

Dr. Jenny Copeland’s Recommended Seasonings:

• Trust my intuition and trust my people.
• Christy Harrison’s Food Psych Podcast
• She’s All Fat Podcast
• Opal Food and Body – The Appetite
• Dr. Gaudiani's competent medical care

Jenny Copeland, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist with Ozark Center where she leads the Reconnect Eating Disorders treatment team. She is an active member of the Missouri Eating Disorders Council. Dr. Copeland has conducted studies on weight stigma among healthcare providers, and developed programming rooted in weight inclusive frameworks to help people pursue balance within and outside themselves to find freedom in their bodies. Her work has earned awards including the Research and Evaluation Fellowship at The School of Professional Psychology at Forest Institute and the inaugural NAAFA Health At Every Size Scholar Award.

With your host Beth Harrell

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