Returning to the Body - Sydney 2027

Returning to the Body: Somatic Approaches for Embodied Recovery in Eating Disorder Treatment

In eating disorder treatment, clients often do everything “right”. They follow the plan, apply the strategies, show insight yet something still does not integrate.

You see effort and cognitive insight, but not the embodied connection where lasting change takes hold.

This often shows up as familiar patterns in eating disorder work:

• Body image work that keeps circling
• Behavioural change that looks compliant rather than lived
• Clients who understand what they are doing, but remain disconnected from their bodies

As a clinician you know the body matters in eating disorder treatment to achieve safety and integration, and for lasting change.

You are already interested in somatic work.

The question is how to weave it into eating disorder sessions in a way that feels ethical, grounded, and clinically coherent, alongside the models you already use.

This workshop is designed to support that exact translation, from knowing the body matters, to knowing how to work with it, moment by moment, in eating disorder treatment.