About Transformational Eating™ — For Pracitioners

Transformational Eating™ — For Practitioners offers a fundamentally different approach to healing, looking through the lens of self-compassion and reparenting. 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.

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. Note that this course now offers 14- CE available from the APA. See more information on CE on the “Join The Class Today” page below.

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 $800, 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

  • $800 for a 16-hour, 8-week course

Upcoming
Class Dates

A new class is currently being scheduled! Join the waitlist to be contacted.

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

This Class Time Doesn’t Work?

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Go Further With Your Clients

Transformational Eating™ is not a diet or specific way of eating, nor is it a form of Intuitive Eating or mindful eating. Instead, it’s a powerful approach to healing emotional and disordered eating that uniquely blends self-compassion skills, belief work, and reparenting.

By focusing on your clients’ history and beliefs — rather than how and what they eat — it goes to the absolute core of their relationship with food. This is deep work that helps your practice by improving outcomes with clients.

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Start Your Transformation Today.

Class Participants Show +30% Increase
In Self-Compassion & Body Awareness

Interoceptive awareness is the ability to know and recognize one’s internal body cues and signals, such as hunger and satiety. Statistically, people struggling with emotional and disordered eating have lower interoceptive awareness, making it more difficult for them to listen to and/or trust the signs their bodies are sending about food.

Survey results from recent class participants demonstrate that Transformational Eating™ materially increases their ability to hear and trust internal signals, as well as their ability to show kindness toward themselves. Students saw double-digit improvements in every measured category (e.g., self-kindness, mindfulness, attention regulation, body listening, trusting) across the gold standards of testing: The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness and the Self-Compassion Scale - Short-Form.

This combination of results — hearing, trusting, and kindness — is the driver of impact for Transformational Eating™.

Hearing

Trusting

Kindness

Client Testimonials

  • "Jessica's Transformational Eating Class lived up to its title - it was truly transformational for me. I've been in therapy many times to address disordered eating and didn't realize how much I needed to experience a group setting. Jessica's gentle leadership and the community of women I met in the class helped me find the ease I've been searching for when dealing with my relationship with food. More importantly, the class opened a door for a new relationship with myself where I am not seeking perfection in everything I do and instead am tending to my heart. "

    Kathleen M.

  • "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.

  • "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.

  • "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.

  • "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."

    Olympia A.

  • "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.