“I have to look perfect.” “I need to lose weight.” “I’ll only wear loose clothes.” “I don’t want to be in photos.”
When your client struggles with body perfectionism, it can feel like the one session you have with them per week doesn’t stand a chance.
Societal pressure and expectations – combined with the disordered eating shame cycle of restricting, bingeing, and compensatory behaviors – makes it feel impossible to help your clients break away from deepseated beliefs and ingrained behaviors.
Watch Deanna Smith, LCSW, CEDS, eating disorders and body image expert, for this comprehensive training that will give you integrative tools to meet the needs of your clients who are struggling with perfectionism, disordered eating, body image, and related negative effects like anxiety and depression. She’ll give you a roadmap for navigating these complex issues, including:
Stop your clients’ perfectionistic self-hatred so they can obsess less about food and perceived flaws and build a fulfilling, imperfect life.
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Pressure to Portray a Perfect Image
Myths and Realities of Perfectionism
Assessment and Case Conceptualization
Overcontrolled or Out of Control?
DBT, CBT, ACT and Other Interventions
Clinical Tools to Shift Beliefs and Behaviors
Clinical Considerations
Provide the Best Care for Clients with Perfectionism
Deanna Smith, LCSW, CEDS-C, is a licensed clinical social worker, author, educator, and owner of The Center for Growth, a private practice specializing in eating disorders, body image concerns, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety disorders, and perfectionism. She has over a decade of clinical experience working with adolescents and adults across multiple levels of care and has presented in specialized spaces on proper assessment and intervention techniques to address these complex disorders.
Deanna is the author of the book The Eating Disorder and Body Image Toolbox, a comprehensive, weight-inclusive resource offering over 115 evidence-based interventions, worksheets, and psychoeducational tools for clinicians. She has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Utah and is an author and presenter for PESI, providing professional education locally and internationally on topics including BDD, OCD, perfectionism, body image, and effective therapeutic interventions.
Her clinical work is grounded in evidence-based approaches such as Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Deanna is passionate about collaborative, compassionate care and supporting meaningful, sustainable change to support long-term change in clients who are struggling with body dissatisfaction and disordered eating responses.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Deanna Smith maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Deanna Smith has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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