Freedom Embodied - Healing Through A HAES Framework
Presented By: Dr. Jennifer Wang-Hall, PhD, PSY #30374
Date: Friday January 23, 2026
Time: 9:30am - 11:30am
Continuing Education: 2 CEs
Zoom link to be provided after registration.
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COURSE DETAILS
Our culture is rife with anti-fatness and weight stigma, which results in significant mental, emotional, and physical distress. Clinicians see this in their offices regularly, manifesting clinically in eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and interpersonal struggles. With the advent of GLP1s, weight and size are front of mind for everyone and these concerns are inevitably going to become more present in our practices even for those of us who do not see eating disorders primarily.
Freedom Embodied is a 2 hour training that orients clinicians to the principles of Health at Every Size (HAES) and explores the ways that this can be applied clinically, both with clients with eating disorders and without. This training will discuss the ways that HAES counters systems of oppression that contribute to mental distress including capitalism, white supremacy, and anti-fatness. It is our privilege and responsibility as clinicians to embrace frameworks such as HAES that allow us to do healing work on both micro and macro fronts.
AUDIENCE
Course designed for mental health professionals of all levels.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Dr. Jennie Wang-Hall is a licensed psychologist in California who has treated eating disorders and their associated conditions at all levels of care since 2011. Jennie is passionate about providing care for clients seeking liberatory therapy, as well as social justice education for providers looking to expand their methods of care. Working in various treatment centers and teams with differing approaches, Dr. Wang-Hall has trained in a multitude of approaches and has witnessed the utility and futility of various approaches. These experiences have led her to an eclectic and anti-oppression lens that facilitates client empowerment and agency in the practice of therapy. Core to Dr. Wang-Hall’s approach is attunement to systems of oppression that manifest in both the development and treatment of eating disorders. She integrates attention to ableism, white supremacy, anti-fatness, misogyny, cis heterosexism, capitalism, and settler colonialism in her care of individuals from all backgrounds struggling with eating disorders. Dr. Wang-Hall brings herself relationally into therapy, education, and training spaces as she feels this work is truly a privilege that requires her fullest self to receive.
SYLLABUS
- Opening Introduction, Overview of topics and rationale (25 minutes)
- Rates of body dissatisfaction and EDs.
- Prevalence and widespread failure of dieting. Rise of GLP1s and impact Etiology (20 minutes)
- Anti-fatness. Capitalism. White supremacy. Psychological Impact of Systems of Oppression (15 minutes)
- Anxiety ,Compulsive productivity., Comparison, Self-loathing. HAES as a Framework (15 minutes)
- What is HAES? How does it address systemic oppression in healing?
- Applicability beyond EDs 5 principles Integrating HAES into Therapy (15 minutes) Mindset, Clinical interventions, Conclusion (5 minutes)
- Application Exercise and Discussion (25 minutes)
- Case Study Question and Answer
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
This course is designed to assist clinicians in recognizing the influences of systemic oppression (namely anti-fatness, capitalism, and white supremacy) on mental illness, specifically eating disorders and associated struggles. This course will help clinicians understand and implement the principles of the HAES framework in their practice in order to support their clients in more radical and holistic healing.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Identify 4 psychological manifestations of anti-fatness and weight stigma distress.
- Identify the prevalence and psychological reign of GLP1s in our current society.
- Name the 5 principles of Health at Every Size.
- Describe 3 ways to integrate these principles into therapy.
- Explain 3 sources of systemic oppression that HAES directly counters.
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REGISTRATION
Pre-Licensed OC CAMFT Members - $15
OC-CAMFT Members - $25
OC-CAMFT Guests - $30
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CE INFORMATION
Certificates will be sent within 2 business days of CEPA director receiving the evaluation.
Note: Participants are required to attend 80% of the presentation to earn CEs.
Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Networking time does not count toward CE credit.
Orange County Chapter of CAMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #59405) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Orange County Chapter of CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
Course completion certificates will be award at the end of the program to those attendees who sign-in within 10 minutes of the commencement of the program, sign-out after the program is concluded, and complete and return an evaluation form.
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ADA POLICY
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If you have a special need or need special accommodations, please click HERE. Please advise us of your needs no later than 7 days prior to the event so that we may be able to accommodate you.
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PAYMENT, CANCELLATIONS, REFUNDS
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EVENT SPONSORS
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