Menopause & Body Image
Essential Tools to Create Distance from Body Dissatisfaction
- Speaker:
- Signe Darpinian, LMFT, CEDS
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 05 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Sep 18, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS151023
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Menopausal women have high rates of body dissatisfaction -
Most of which is focused on increases in weight and changes in weight distribution.
And the urge to “fix” these changes through weight loss may actually be harmful, given other physiological changes that occur during this stage.
In this session, Signe Darpinian – eating disorders expert and author of A Women’s Guide to Menopause, Body Image, and Emotional Well-being at Midlife – will give you essential strategies to help your clients approaching menopause to create distance from body image distress. You’ll learn:
A framework for providing psychoeducation about expected body changes
Strategies to help clients process grief related to body changes and aging
CBT and ACT tools clients can use to when their body distress is activated
Credit
Speaker
Signe Darpinian, LMFT, CEDS Related seminars and products
Signe Darpinian, LMFT, CEDS, is host of Therapy Rocks! a personal growth podcast, author of A Women’s Guide to Menopause, Body Image, and Emotional Well-Being at Midlife, and co-author of No Weigh! A Teen’s Guide to Positive Body Image, Food, and Emotional Wisdom as well as Raising Body Positive Teens: A Parent’s Guide to Diet-Free Living, Exercise and Body Image. Signe provides telehealth therapy services and case consultation focused on menopause, body image, and eating disorders in the state of California. She is the past president of the International Association of Eating Disorders (iaedp™) SF Bay Area Chapter. Over the past several years, she’s been recognized by various organizations for her accomplishments in women’s health and business while also being requested for speaking engagements at renowned institutions like top-rated Rancho La Puerta Spa in Mexico, Stanford University, Gallo Winery, and Pinterest Headquarters. Her body of work has been featured in various newspapers, magazines, and online sites, such as Forbes and CNN. She’s made several appearances on radio and television in northern California, including KTVU FOX 2, FOX 40, ABC7’s talk show The View from the Bay, the CBS-affiliate talk show Bay Area Focus with Emmy winner Susan Sikora as well as The Lady Brain Show with Steph Walton.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Signe Darpinian 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: Signe Darpinian is a member of the Menopause Society and the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals.
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Objectives
- Plan psychoeducation about body changes to clients who will experience or are experiencing menopause to reduce the risk of body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating.
- Differentiate disordered eating and eating disorder.
- Utilize cognitive reframing to shift clients’ negative body image thoughts.
Outline
Menopause and Body Image Distress
- Hormone-influenced changes in weight and weight distribution
- Increase in body image dissatisfaction during menopause
- Diet culture and the pathologizing of normal physiological shifts
- Eating disorders vulnerability and the potential harm of dieting for midlife women
- Body grief in a youth-obsessed culture
Tools to Reduce Body Image Distress in Menopausal Clients
- Provide psychoeducation early and often about expected body changes
- Screening tool to assess disordered eating and eating disorders with screening tools
- Diet ABCs – is it adequate, balanced, and consistent?
- Stress management, movement, social support, and other health behaviors that help
- Cognitive reframing to challenge and shift negative body image thoughts
- ACT values work to shift focus from external to internal motivation
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
- Physicians
- Physician Assistants
- Nurses
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