Transformational Eating™ Class - For Practitioners
Details & Sign-Ups

I’m so happy you’re ready to enhance your professional skills with me!

As you know, Transformational Eating™ was originally developed to help my clients — individuals for whom these tools, delivered in a small group setting, could have a dramatic impact on their own struggles with food. However, this program has proven to be an incredibly valuable resource for therapists, clinicians, and other specialists, as well, who can bring this unique approach to healing emotional and disordered eating back to their own clientele. Also, 14 CE from APA is available for this class. See details below.

Geared towards practitioners and clinicians, this level-1 certification course introduces professionals to self-compassion and reparenting before teaching them how best to incorporate both into their own practices. This 16-hour class series, which meets in 2-hour blocks for 8 weeks over Zoom, is ideally suited to those working directly with clients struggling with emotional and disordered eating but applicable to all.

Details about the upcoming class series are below, including specific dates/times and sign-up steps. Please remember that classes are small (~4-10 people), so secure your place as soon as possible.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jessica directly at jessica@thelovingdiet.com.

Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals

• CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the

American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

• The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American

Psychological Association.

• LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept

programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.

• SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the

course concludes.

•For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact jessica@thelovingdiet.com

For questions about CE, contact Spiritual Competency Academy at info@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.

About Transformational Eating™ — For Pracitioners

Transformational Eating™ — For Practitioners offers a fundamentally different approach to healing, looking through the lens of self-compassion and parenting. Originally launched to help clients on elimination diets who developed unhealthy relationships with food, it’s become a powerful resource for practitioners, therapists, clinicians, and others working with those struggling with food. This course will introduce you to self-compassion and reparenting and teach you how best to incorporate these evidence-based approaches into your professional practices.

This short video introduces you to the program (and to me), including its origins, how it’s unique, and what to expect as a participant.

Upcoming
Class Dates

We’ll meet on Wednesdays, from 9:00-11:00 am Pacific Time, for eight (8) weeks beginning on July 11th. Specific dates will be:

  • July 11

  • July 18

  • July 25

  • Aug 1

  • Aug 8

  • Aug 15

  • Aug 22

  • Aug 29

Note: All classes are recorded and viewable for one week, in the event you miss a class, or would like to review materials.

Other Information

After registering and paying (below), you’ll receive a short series of emails from Jessica/The Loving Diet™:

  • Immediately after signing-up, you’ll receive a brief questionnaire and consent form

  • Approximately 3 days before our first class, you’ll receive an email with links to:

    • Extensive class workbook

    • Zoom log-in details

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jessica directly at jessica@thelovingdiet.com.

Registration & Payment

To secure your spot in this class series:

  • Click on the 9:00 AM button at the bottom of this calendar. This will secure your spot for ALL dates noted above, even though it will appear you’re only booking for one.

  • Enter all relevant contact and credit card information

Transformational Eating™ -
For Practitioners

Transformational Eating™ — For Practitioners is an evidence-based, 16-hour, 8-week live Zoom course that teaches the skills of self-compassion and reparenting, helps explore underlying belief systems, and aids in showing kindness to internal hurt — all to help practitioners more effectively work with clients that struggle with emotional and disordered eating.

This is a very hands-on, highly interactive class that meets weekly in 2-hour blocks. In our time together, we will:

  • Root ourselves in self-compassion and reparenting

  • Discover the framework of your clients’ relationships to food and what they believe about themselves

  • Explore how self-compassion and reparenting can transform existing beliefs

  • Evaluate the limitations of Intuitive Eating practices

  • Investigate the role of interoception in eating

  • Introduce basic meditations and self-compassion exercises

Total cost for the class is $400, including an expansive workbook and custom meditations. Additionally, all classes will be recorded and viewable for up to one week, in the event you can’t attend and/or want to review.

Classes are intentionally small (a maximum of ten people), so please sign up as soon as possible to assure yourself of a spot.

Class + Peer Group Overview

What we’ll do

  • Learn about self-compassion + reparenting

  • Discover client belief frameworks and the power to transform them

  • Evaluate the limitations of Intuitive Eating

  • Investigate the role of interoception

  • Introduce mediations and exercises

Class size

  • Typically only 4-10 people

Timing

  • 2-hour blocks each week for 8 weeks, all via Zoom

Cost

  • $500 for an 16-hour, 8-week course

Client Testimonials

  • "Jessica is a true gift and light! Access to her warm energetic presence was extremely healing... Through the class, I felt like I started to break down the walls protecting my heart for the very first time, despite years and years of therapy. I left this course feeling extremely hopeful!"

    Claire P.

  • "This course created space for me to begin the journey of fostering compassion for myself. Jessica’s gentle guidance helped me probe questions I didn’t know I had, while sharing the experience as a group enabled me to learn more about my own healing."

    Shannon D.

  • "This class was truly life changing for me. I would actually recommend this class to all of my female friends and family. Having a safe space to learn, share and grow with a small group was so special to me. Jessica is a beautiful soul and truly takes time to understand and help each person in the class. Her teaching is clear, non judgemental and loving. The ideas, meditations and knowledge she brings to each class have been so revolutionary to me in every aspect of my life."

    Sarah P.

  • "It is hard to find the right words to describe my gratitude for Jessica and the incredible women that shared this course with me... Jessica provided an immense diversity of tools, ideas, educational resources, concepts, meditations, and vulnerable personal anecdotes that helped me begin the process of healing my relationship with food and my body."

    Kristi S.

  • "Before I took Jessica's course, I was completely hopeless that I would overcome my eating disorder. I had tried everything... nothing worked. At the end of the course, with her help and the shared insight of the group setting, I am coming up on two months of not practicing the eating disorder, and for the first time in years, it didn't feel like a tremendous burden. It just happened."

    Shelby E.

  • "My healing journey felt stalled - like I was hitting a ceiling, and that ceiling was way too low… And, the class proved to be the balm I needed. It was actually Transformational."

    Kirsten O.

  • “It's been a couple of months since I finished Jessica's program, and I feel resolutely steady in the transformation that happened within me during the eight weeks of the course. It's not that my struggles are gone - illness, pain, questions. It's how I relate to the whole picture that has fundamentally changed.”

    Michelle R.

  • “This class has transformed how I relate to my thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and I feel better able to be with difficult emotions, memories, and experiences without needing to fix, hide, or numb.”

    Anonymous

  • "I'm not sure I fully have the words to describe how amazing and transformational this course was! And even though it's over, the work is just beginning... Jessica is one of the most caring, loving humans I know. She has a gift for holding space for others and her loving has no bounds."

    Shirley T.

  • "The Transformational Eating class exceeded my expectations and I’m truly grateful for the experience. Being able to connect with like-minded individuals on similar journeys was so helpful to me. I loved the format and flow of the class, getting to share weekly progress, and learning ways to incorporate self compassion into my daily life. I can’t recommend this class enough if you’re someone who wants to learn more about your relationship to food from the basis of self-compassion."

    Erica F.

  • "This course was well worth the money, time, and energy. The levels of deep healing and transformation initiated in my life have been truly something I’ve never experienced before, creating the groundwork for a truly nourishing and compassionately navigated life."

    Kylie K.

  • "I was hoping for a quick shift in how to intuitively eat so I could lose weight - I left with a shift in how I looked at myself, how I spoke to myself, and the ability to give myself permission to sit with myself, whether on cloud-9 or in the midst of mental turmoil. I have for the first time... been able to extend deep love and care to myself genuinely... and to touch those places within that felt like they didn't deserve that kind of love."

    Leah

  • "Today I have tools to manage my relationship with food that I learned in the Transformational Eating class... and the hamster wheel of negative talk has left the building. I feel empowered and on the path to food freedom..."

    V C

  • "The 'AHHAAA!' moment was when I realized that my food issues were about ALL of me and my perceptions - and not just my gut. Jessica provides support to look deeper. Truly Transforming!"

    Cindy H.

  • "Jessica's approach and capacity to hold space for each client individually, as well as in a group, is nothing short of phenomenal. This was the first time in recent memory where I not only felt like actual healing took place, but the group dynamic was so supportive and special... If you feel like you have tried everything and you keep hitting dead ends, Jessica's guidance and loving approach will set it right."

    Stacy C.

  • "My time in the class empowered me to recognize why my Inner Eater exists, how she supports my inner critic, and how I can be grateful for both of them for protecting me and keeping me safe from trauma I have experienced. Seeing my Inner Eater from this perspective afforded me more compassion for myself and my classmates. Jessica is magic."

    Olivia A.