Rachel Lewis-Marlow (she/her) is a somatically integrative psychotherapist, dually licensed in counseling and therapeutic massage and bodywork. She is a Certified Advanced Practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and has advanced training and 30 + years of experience in diverse somatic therapies including Craniosacral Therapy, Energetic Osteopathy, Oncology massage, Polarity and Aromatherapy.
Rachel began her work with eating disorders in Residential, PHP and IOP treatment programs. There she developed the Embodying Recovery group therapy protocol which forms the basis for the EMBODIED RECOVERY for EATING DISORDERS (ERED) treatment model. She provided program development, training and supervision for the implementation of the ERED model to enhance the effectiveness of current best practices, such as DBT, Interpersonal Process, ACT groups. She also developed the Body Wisdom group protocol, an alternative to the traditional body-image group, which focuses on enhancing the mind-body relationship through mindful experience of and through the body.
She has extensive experience as a teacher and presenter, focusing on accessing the body’s unique capacity to give voice to the subconscious and to lay the foundation for healing and maintaining psychological and physical health. In her private practice in Chapel Hill, NC, Rachel specializes in working with people exploring recovery from trauma, eating disorders, and dissociative disorders.
Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders: a trauma-informed, attachment-based and somatically integrative approach to eating disorders treatment.
Participants are invited to explore how “normative eating” is impacted by the body’s experiences of safety, danger, and sensory overwhelm. We will discover new avenues to support recovery when eating disorders behaviors are understood as the body’s expression of fear, grief and anger, rather than as emotional coping strategies. Experiential activities and discussion will guide us to an appreciation for the essential role providers play in facilitating the co-regulation needed for clients to build the capacity to take in nourishment from food, as well as from other sources, such a attachment...Read more relationships. Participants will walk away with a more trauma-informed, attachment based and somatically integrative approach to eating disorders treatment. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Identify the role of bottom-up processing and body-based interventions in eating disorders treatment and recovery.
- Identify the physiological connection between attachment, trauma, sensory processing and digestion.
- Define “normative eating” through the lens of Polyvagal Theory, the Window of Tolerance and the behavioral map of the Action Cycle.
- Explain the connection between the behavioral map of the Action Cycle and the somatic map of the Relational Cycle of developmental movements.
- Define how healthy attachment supports capacity for effective action and ‘normative eating’.
- List eating disorders behaviors as expressions of neurological dysregulation, and Action Cycle Barriers.
- Define the impact of providers’ nervous system regulation and embodiment of safety on corrective co-regulating experiences in eating disorders treatment.
Friday, December 06, 2024
Live Interactive Webinar
10:00 AM EST - 12:00 PM EST
EARN 2 CE Credit Hours
About the speaker
Rachel Lewis-Marlow, MS, EDS, LCMHC, LMBT
Co-founder and Director: Embodied Recovery Institute
CE Information - Earn 2 CE Credit Hours
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