Professional Workshops
for Clinics, Treatment Programs, and Schools
Sova Counseling offers practical, eating-disorder-informed workshops for clinical teams, treatment programs, schools, and youth-serving organizations.
These workshops are built for the moments that do not arrive neatly labeled as eating disorders: the client whose anxiety, trauma, substance use, or “healthy choices” may also involve food fear or restriction; the program whose routines may accidentally reinforce symptoms; and the team that wants to respond with more skill, clarity, and compassion.
Workshops are grounded in current clinical knowledge, real-world application, and a commitment to dignity. They are designed to help professionals recognize risk, work within their scope, avoid preventable harm, and make thoughtful decisions together.
Disordered Eating
101
What It Is, How It Shows Up, and What You Can Do Within Your Scope
A foundational workshop for providers and teams who do not specialize in eating disorders but regularly work with people affected by them.
Disordered eating can be hidden behind anxiety, depression, trauma, OCD, substance use, health concerns, or efforts to feel more in control. This workshop introduces the many ways eating concerns can present, why they develop and persist, and how professionals can respond responsibly without overreaching beyond their role.
Best for: Group practices, outpatient clinicians, community mental-health teams, treatment programs, and multidisciplinary providers.
Participants will leave with:
A clearer framework for recognizing disordered eating across body sizes, diagnoses, ages, and presenting concerns.
Greater ability to notice when other clinical concerns may also involve eating-disorder dynamics.
Practical ways to respond within their professional role.
Clearer judgment about when to begin a conversation, coordinate care, seek consultation, or refer for specialized or medical support.
Thinspiration
Social Media, Food, Bodies, and Control in Adolescence
Adolescents are navigating a digital environment that constantly communicates messages about bodies, food, worth, belonging, discipline, and control. Social media can intensify comparison, bullying, body dissatisfaction, food rules, and fear of not measuring up.
This workshop helps the adults around young people understand those pressures and respond in ways that reduce shame, secrecy, and unnecessary surveillance. The focus is on practical prevention, early recognition, and supportive conversation.
Best for: Schools, outpatient youth programs, clinicians working with adolescents, community centers, caregivers, and youth-serving organizations.
Participants will leave with:
A clearer understanding of how social media, comparison, bullying, body ideals, and algorithmic content can shape adolescent relationships with food, bodies, and control.
Increased ability to notice early concerns without pathologizing normal adolescent uncertainty or relying on appearance alone.
More useful ways to start supportive conversations and avoid responses that increase shame or secrecy.
Practical strategies for adults and organizations to strengthen prevention, resilience, and appropriate pathways to additional support.
So Healthy It Hurts
How Healthcare Can Reinforce Eating Disorders and How Teams Can Interrupt the Cycle
Healthcare can unintentionally reinforce eating disorders through its language, routines, incentives, monitoring practices, and discharge plans. Behaviors that look “healthy,” motivated, or compliant may reflect restriction, food fear, shame, or compensatory behavior. Well-intended care can become part of the problem when teams do not recognize those dynamics.
This workshop helps multidisciplinary teams examine where eating-disorder logic may already be showing up in their setting and build more consistent, safer responses. It is especially useful in settings with medical, nursing, support-staff, or mixed-discipline roles.
Best for: Inpatient psychiatric programs, residential and PHP programs, medical practices, substance-use treatment programs, and multidisciplinary treatment teams.
Participants will leave with:
Greater awareness of how routine healthcare language, policies, rewards, monitoring practices, and discharge plans can unintentionally reinforce eating-disorder symptoms.
Tools for recognizing eating-disorder risk even when it does not fit assumptions about weight, motivation, or diagnosis.
More consistent team language and behavior-based documentation practices.
A clearer shared approach to consultation, role coordination, escalation, and discharge planning.
Orthorexia & Friends
When “Health” Culture Enters the Therapy Room and What to Do About It
“Clean eating,” discipline, wellness goals, body optimization, food rules, and exercise can all appear reasonable on the surface. In some contexts, however, they may be shaped by fear, rigidity, shame, or a need for control.
This workshop explores how health culture and diet culture can infiltrate clinical work, team communication, and organizational norms. It offers a more nuanced way to recognize when “healthy” language is becoming symptom language and how to respond without adding shame, debate, or another simplistic rule set.
Best for: Therapists, group practices, outpatient and residential programs, multidisciplinary providers, leadership teams, and youth-serving organizations.
Participants will leave with:
A more nuanced way to recognize when health behavior may be shaped by fear, rigidity, shame, or control.
Better language for addressing food moralizing and weight stigma.
Practical ways to examine the impact of health culture within clinical work, team communication, and organizational norms.
Greater confidence discussing these concerns with clients, families, and colleagues without inadvertently reinforcing the problem.
60-Minute Presentation
Up to 15 participants
Virtual: $650
In person in the Salt Lake Valley: $850
16 or more participants
Virtual: $950
In person in the Salt Lake Valley: $1,150
Pricing
All prices are per workshop, not per participant. Standard adaptation for your setting and one planning call are included.
90-Minute Workshop
Our standard workshop format. It allows time for teaching, practical application, discussion, and questions.
Up to 15 participants
Virtual: $800
In person in the Salt Lake Valley: $1,000
16 or more participants
Virtual: $1,200
In person in the Salt Lake Valley: $1,450
Continuing Education Credit
CE credit may be available for eligible professional workshops for an additional $300 coordination and approval fee.
CE requests must be made at booking and at least six weeks before the requested training date. Availability, approved credit hours, and eligible disciplines are confirmed before the workshop is scheduled.
2-Hour Interactive Workshop
A deeper format for setting-specific cases, facilitated discussion, implementation planning, and more sustained skill-building.
Up to 15 participants
Virtual: $1,000
In person in the Salt Lake Valley: $1,250
16 or more participants
Virtual: $1,500
In person in the Salt Lake Valley: $1,800
Customization and Travel
Each standard workshop includes reasonable adaptation of examples, language, and discussion to your setting.
Expanded customization, multi-session programs, policy review, original curriculum development, or travel outside the Salt Lake Valley are quoted in advance.
Community Access Workshops
Sova offers a limited number of no-cost workshops each year for nonprofit, community, and mission-aligned organizations whose work directly supports underserved populations in the prevention or treatment of eating disorders.
Workshops are selected based on organizational fit, anticipated community impact, and presenter availability. If your organization may qualify, please reach out directly to discuss the opportunity.
Reach Out Directly
To discuss workshop fit, availability, CE options, or community-access eligibility, contact us directly.
Office phone: (385) 370-9857
Email: ylivnat@sova-counseling.com