Intuitive Eating in Therapy: Understanding the Principles in Practice Workshop with Sarah Dosanjh

Many therapists encounter clients who feel stuck in cycles of dieting, emotional eating, or chronic disconnection from their bodies. This training is designed to deepen your understanding of Intuitive Eating – a compassionate, evidence-based framework that helps people rebuild trust with food and their bodies. We’ll explore the 10 principles of Intuitive Eating, how they differ from traditional weight-centric approaches, and how they can be integrated into therapeutic work in a way that honours the client’s autonomy, lived experience, and emotional world.

Through a blend of theory, clinical insight, and reflective discussion, you’ll gain clarity on how diet culture and internalised weight stigma can shape your clients’ relationships with food. We’ll look at how to gently support clients in moving away from external rules and toward inner attunement – without rushing or bypassing the complex emotions that often accompany eating behaviours. Whether you’re new to Intuitive Eating or looking to expand your skills, this training offers a thoughtful, trauma-aware approach to supporting clients with food concerns beyond meal plans and behaviour change.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Describe the core principles of Intuitive Eating and how they relate to common clinical themes such as shame, control, and emotional regulation.
• Identify ways to integrate Intuitive Eating concepts into therapeutic conversations with clients who struggle with food, without becoming a “nutritionist.”
• Recognise the impact of diet culture and weight stigma in therapy and apply a non-diet lens to support clients in reconnecting with their body’s cues.

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Counsellors, therapists, coaches and trainees.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• This workshop has the potential to shift how you approach food and body concerns in your clinical work. Rather than focusing on symptom reduction or behaviour change alone, you’ll come away with a broader, more compassionate framework that supports deeper emotional healing and long-term reconnection with the body. It will equip you to hold space for nuanced conversations about hunger, fullness, shame, and self-trust — and help you feel more confident in working with clients who feel stuck in cycles of restriction, bingeing, or body dissatisfaction. You may also find your own relationship with food and body is reflected upon and deepened, allowing for greater attunement and authenticity in the therapy room.