Working with Eating Disorders as an Outpatient Provider: Interventions and other Considerations
The purpose of this training is to provide an in depth look into the treatment of eating disorders in the outpatient counseling setting.
Learners will be engaged in education and practice of various treatment strategies, interventions, and theoretical approaches to outpatient counseling eating disorder treatment.
Additionally, this training will explore the various considerations outpatient practitioners must integrate into treatment of clients with disordered eating.
Date: May 22nd, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Presenter: Bridget Smith
CEUs are available!
Meet Your Presenter
Bridget Smith is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Certified Mental Performance Consultant, who received her PsyD in clinical psychology from James Madison University and her masters in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Denver. In her role at VCU she provides individual psychological counseling and sport performance sessions, programming and outreach, and consultation services to teams and athletics staff.
Prior to VCU she completed both her clinical internship and post-doctoral residency at the James Madison University Counseling Center before joining as a senior staff psychologist where she specialized in trauma, eating and body image concerns, and student athlete mental health. During her tenure at JMU she played a role in establishing the integrated healthcare team within the athletics department to better meet the need of student-athletes. Additionally, she has also worked as a licensed provider at an eating disorder outpatient clinic in Philadelphia, and during graduate school worked at a higher level of care eating disorder treatment center as house counselor offering support after programming hours for residents.
As a clinician, she is committed to honoring an individual’s lived experience and cultivating change through warmth, humor, and fostering a sense of empowerment.