Supporting Clients with Overeating: Mindful Eating Approaches for Clinical Practice

This On-Demand workshop with Dr. Susan Wnuk, clinical psychologist and mindfulness facilitator, offers practical strategies to support clients struggling with overeating through mindfulness-based approaches. Explore the psychological and behavioral roots of overeating, and understand how research-backed mindful eating practices can help clients cultivate a healthier, more compassionate relationship with food.

Grounded in both scientific evidence and contemplative traditions, this workshop guides participants through a structured exploration of mindful eating. Learn how to integrate self-compassion, embodied presence, and inner and outer wisdom to support sustainable change. This workshop offers a non-diet-based, empowering perspective to help practitioners effectively address one of the most common food-related challenges in therapy and coaching.

In this workshop, you will:

• Explore emotional, cultural, and behavioral drivers of overeating and why mindfulness is an effective, evidence-based approach.
• Engage in a hands-on practice to build awareness of hunger, fullness, and satisfaction, and learn how to support clients in doing the same.
• Gain practical tools for delivering this work with clients, including adaptation, scope of practice, and referral considerations.

Learning Lessons, Practices and Transcripts:

• How Mindfulness Can Support Overeating

• Experiencing the Guided Mindful Eating Exercise

• How to apply the Mindful Eating Exercise with clients

• Guide: Facilitating the Mindful Eating Exercise: Adapting the Practice for Setting, Client Needs, and Scope of Practice.

CE Hours = 1.5

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Featured Instructor: Dr. Susan Wnuk, PhD., C. Psych

Dr. Susan Wnuk, PhD., C. Psych, is a clinical, counselling and health psychologist at the University Health Network Bariatric Surgery Program in Toronto and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry. She provides care to pre- and post-bariatric surgery patients that involves assessment, individual therapy, and the facilitation of mindfulness and DBT skills groups.  Prior to her current role, she worked in hospital-based eating disorder and borderline personality disorder clinics.  She is involved in research projects investigating the effectiveness of psychological interventions including mindfulness and cognitive-behavioural therapy. Dr. Wnuk supervises students, facilitates workshops for professionals, publishes research and presents at conferences. She teaches mindfulness at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies and has a small private practice.