Why Do So Many Clients Stay Stuck with Food and Body Image Struggles?
Because Dieting Behaviors Often Function Like OCD— A Cycle of Anxiety, Control, and Temporary Relief.
Break Free From Dieting OCD is a comprehensive clinical training that introduces the Dieting OCD Framework, equipping you to identify and effectively target the core patterns that sustain food and body image struggles—so clients can move beyond chronic dieting, food anxiety, and body image distress.
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These Patterns are Maintained by Multiple Interacting Forces
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To create meaningful change, clinicians must understand the full picture:
1.Anxiety & Obsession–Compulsion Patterns
Clients become caught in a loop of:
• intrusive food and body thoughts
• rising anxiety
• compulsive attempts to regain control through dieting behaviors
These behaviors reduce anxiety in the short term—but strengthen the cycle over time.
2. Dieting as a Coping Strategy (Why the Behavior Persists)
For many clients, dieting is not just about weight.
It becomes a way to:
• manage stress
• create a sense of control
• reduce emotional discomfort
• cope with uncertainty
Over time, food and body control become a primary way of coping with life itself.
3. The Systemic Influence of Diet Culture (Why It Feels So Compelling)
Clients are also operating within a system that:
• reinforces fear of weight gain
• promotes rigid food rules
• equates body size with worth
• normalizes chronic dieting
This makes the cycle feel not only necessary—but morally right or expected.
The Result
Over time, clients become caught in a cycle of:
External control, internal distress, and disconnection from their own bodies.
A Shift in Treatment
This Approach Moves Beyond
- Controlling Food
- "Fixing" Eating Behaviors
- or Relying on Willpower
And Instead Focuses On
- Reducing Anxiety
- Expanding Coping
- Helping Clients Re-engage with a Fuller Life
When we understand what’s maintaining the problem, a different path becomes possible.
When you enroll in Break Free From Dieting OCD you will learn...
The Dieting OCD Framework
The Dieting OCD Framework is a structured clinical model that addresses the problem at all three levels. Rather than focusing only on eating behaviors, this framework helps clinicians intervene where the cycle is actually maintained.
This Approach Integrates:
1. External Rules → Internal Body Trust
Clinicians learn to support clients to move from rigid dieting rules to reconnecting with hunger, fullness, and satisfaction cues. They do this by learning how to integrate evidence based models of Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) and the Intuitive Eating Model.
2. Shame → Systemic Understanding
Using an adaptation of Systems Theory, clinicians will learn to support clients to shift from self-blame to understanding the Systemic role of Diet Culture that influences and maintains the problem. The more clients see the system as the problem, the more they see they are not.
3. Nervous System Dysregulation → Nervous System Regulation
Clinicians learn to help clients recognize how food, dieting, and body control function as maladaptive coping strategies that keep the nervous system in a chronic state of stress. Through The Dieting OCD Framework, clinicians support clients in understanding and respecting their nervous system’s limits, restoring a sense of safety and regulation. From this foundation, clients can build lives aligned with their values—reducing the need to rely on food or body control to manage emotions.
The Deeper Shift
As these changes occur, clients move from:
externally driven control
→ toward
greater internal trust, regulation, and alignment with who they really are
"This was one of the best trainings I've done. Shelby was so well informed and engaging!"
-Former Student
In This Training, You Will Learn How To:
• Identify Dieting OCD patterns in client presentations
• Apply Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to reduce compulsive food and body behaviors
• Help clients manage anxiety through nervous system regulation and reduce reliance on control around food
• Support clients in reconnecting with hunger, fullness, and satisfaction by eating intuitively
• Address the impact of diet culture on beliefs and behaviors
• Guide clients toward more flexible, internally driven decision-making with food and their body
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6 Contact Hours
1 Day LIVE Online
Break Free From Dieting OCD
$249.99* Value
Just $199.99 Today!
October 2, 2026
9:00 am to 4:00 pm EST
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Why This Approach is Different
Most approaches focus on changing behaviors or thoughts around food and body image—
But often miss what is actually keeping clients stuck.
The Dieting OCD Framework brings these pieces together by addressing:
• The anxiety-driven cycle that reinforces food and body preoccupation
• The use of control around food as a way to manage internal emotional/ nervous system distress
• The disconnection from internal cues like hunger, fullness, and satisfaction
• The influence of diet culture shaping beliefs and behaviors
The Shift
As a result clients move from:
Anxiety-driven control.
Preoccupation with food and body.
→ toward
Less preoccupation.
Less urgency to control food.
More trust in the body.
More capacity to engage in life.
“Shelby is a warm, caring and supportive individual. Her incredible ability to connect with and guide people towards health is matched by her incredible depth of knowledge. Each time I meet with Shelby, I walk away feeling uplifted and more centered in myself. I trust fully in her ability to help couples and individuals and would recommend her with out hesitation!”
-Sarah Maurer, LMFT
"When you meet Shelby, it is immediately evident how much of her heart and soul go into her work. Her passion is to help people understand and improve themselves and their relationships. She is a dedicated and committed Coach and Therapist. I would highly recommend her program!"
Tina Zorger, Psy.D.
Learn to Treat the Pattern—Not Just the Symptoms
Break Free From Dieting OCD gives you a clear, structured way to identify and target the patterns that keep clients stuck in the Dieting OCD cycle.
Join other clinicians in learning a more effective, integrated approach—so clients can finally move beyond chronic dieting, food anxiety, and body image distress.
This is how lasting change becomes possible.
6 Contact Hours
1 Day LIVE Online
Break Free From Dieting OCD
$249.99* Value
Just $199.99 Today!
October 2, 2026
9:00 am to 4:00 pm EST
Register Now