Books Authored:
Weight Wisdom: Affirmations to Free You from Food and Body Concerns
(co-authored with Mary Ellen Williams), Brunner-Routledge, 2003

Titles of presentations:
Be a Super Model
Learn how to be a "super model" for body image and healthy eating. This workshop trains parents, teachers, coaches and guidance counselor to become an activist in the prevention of eating disorders. Learn how to identify the "red flags" of disordered eating, how to become media savvy and what to do should you be concerned about a student or a loved one. Each of us can make a difference!

Body Blues: Helping Students Gain Weight Wisdom on Campus
This workshop trains resident life staff, coaches and college counselors how to effectively identify, support and refer students with eating disorders. Learn how to set up an eating disorders policy on campus, how to work as a team and how to protect each student confidentiality in the process.

Building Body Confidence
Building and maintaining a healthy body image in a society obsessed with carbohydrates, fat grams, and thinness is a challenge for many men and women. Participants will discover the ways in which our industrialized society uses our insecurities to sell products and how each of us can fight back and learn to love ourselves inside and out. Participants will walk away with concrete strategies for improving body confidence, increasing "weight wisdom", and having fun in whatever size and shape you are currently in.

Connecting to Recovery Online: Using the Internet as a Treatment Tool
Everyone is online nowadays! Learn how the internet can be used effectively in the recovery process. In a focus group format, professionals explore the use of email, internet based programs, websites and chat rooms in eating disorders treatment. What are the advantages, disadvantages, ethical and clinical considerations of using innovative technology in your practice?

Nothing to Lose: Effective Treatment Strategies for Working with Binge Eating Disorders
Binge eating disorders (BED), also known as compulsive overeating, is the eating disorder that is most misunderstood and overlooked. This workshop will give clinicians and healthcare providers an overview of BED and the latest information on how to effectively diagnosis and treat individuals with this clinical issue.

Playful Promotion: How to Have Fun and Build Your Business
This interactive workshop teaches participants fun and creative ways to get a message to the paying public; how to identify and overcome "promotional phobia"; and ways to increase your income, even if you choose to not increase your hours! Through personal experience, hands-on activities and case examples, Kathleen will help you find and embrace the marketer within. By the end you may even be excited to promote your business!

You're Not Crazy, You're Coping: Effective Treatment Strategies for Helping Individuals with Food and Body Concerns
This workshop teaches participants how to use a blend of psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to help clients recover from eating disorders. Through the use of metaphors, storytelling, and affirmations, Kathleen will help clinicians and healthcare providers more effectively identify and treat adolescents and adults with food and body image concerns.

Fee range:
Please contact Kathleen for current fee schedule.

Some previous speaking engagements:
* Food & Body Image Concerns: Effective Treatment Strategies, National Occupational Exchange Full Day Workshop, May 20, 2005, Bangor, ME.

* Gaining Weight Wisdom: Working with Obesity & Eating Disorders in Children & Adolescents , Division of Children, Youth and Families Full Day Workshop, May 13, 2005, Nashua, NH.

* Connecting to Recovery Online: How to Use the Internet as a Treatment Tool, MEDA, Inc. Annual Conference, April 30, 2005, Waltham, MA.

* Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Yoga: The Bridge Between Mind and Body, MEDA, Inc. Annual Conference, April 30. 2005, Waltham, MA.

* You're Not Crazy, You're Coping: Effective Treatment Strategies for Working with Adolescents with Food and Body Concerns, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. Full Day Workshop, January 28, 2005, Brockton, MA.

* Body Blues: Helping Students Gain Weight Wisdom on Campus, Wheaton College Student Life Orientation Workshop, 2004, Norton, MA.

* You're Not Crazy, You're Coping: Effective Treatment Strategies for Working with Eating and Body Image Concerns, Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association Workshop Half Day Workshop, 2003, Natick, MA.

* You're Not Crazy, You're Coping: Effective Treatment Strategies for Working with Eating and Body Image Concerns, National Association of Social Workers Regional Conference, April 2004, Marlboro, MA.

* Playful Promotion: How to Have Fun with EDAW, National Eating Disorders Association Conference, 2003, Chicago, Il.

* Nothing to Lose: Strategies for Working with Binge Eating Disorders, National Eating Disorders Association Conference, 2002, Santa Monica, CA.

Bio:
Kathleen Burns Kingsbury is a licensed mental health counselor, educator, and activist dedicated to the prevention and treatment of eating disorders and body image concerns. She is the co-author of the book, Weight Wisdom: Affirmations to Free You From Food and Body Image Concerns (Brunner-Routledge, 2003) and most recently wrote the AMHCA article Nothing to Lose: Strategies for Eating Disorders (December, 2004).

Kathleen is the founder of the South Shore Eating Disorders Collaborative, a group of highly skilled clinicians dedicated to providing quality care for individuals and families coping with eating and related problems. In addition to her work in the eating disorders field, Kathleen consults with entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations and corporations to help them develop effective marketing and operational strategies. During the past decade, Kathleen has lectured to hundreds of parents, students and professionals throughout the United States. She has been a guest on the National Public Radio Show Here and Now and is an expert source for the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald and many other local newspapers. She maintains a private practice in Quincy and in Easton, Massachusetts.

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