The Image of Our Body CEU
with Becca Bowers PLPC
Are you a clinician wanting to integrate body image into your therapeutic space? Most of us never received formal training on this topic and might be working through our own body image relationship. My hope is that you leave this training feeling more confident to have the conversations with your clients, get connected to our community, and leave with real exercises and tools to better address body image distress.
About The Course
As clinicians, we know that dieting and constantly driving to change the body harms people and keeps them stuck in an unforgiving cycle of hatred. We know that people go to the coping skill or information data bank that is the most comfortable/accessible for them. Accessibility can be great, it can also be harmful information. Communicating with our clients about body image and teaching them how to discuss, assess, and cope can create a major difference in their life.
Less than 8 seconds of engagement with a topic is what it takes to change a client’s algorithm across the internet. When we speak, share, and use information that is trauma-informed and evidence-based, we change what will become accessible to our clients. Sometimes we do not address body image directly, sometimes we do, learning to do it well and with support is the goal.
August 28
Friday, August 28, 2026
One Acadiana Office
523 Jefferson St. Downtown, Lafayette, LA
9 am -
12 pm
3 CEU
Approved for LPCs
$100
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The Key Benefits of This Course
This training will empower you to be more confident to have the conversations, with real exercises and tools to better address body image distress for your clients.
What You Will Learn
Language you can use to start and stay in body image conversations
Identify factors that contribute to body dissatisfaction
Recognize how body image concerns present clinically
Tools to help your clients recognize and shift body checking and avoidance patterns
Utilize trauma-informed approaches to body image work.
Confidence and connection to work with clients dealing with body image struggles.
Tools You Can Use Immediately
Assessment Question
Reflection Prompts
Psychoeducation Tools
Emodiment Practices
Resources for further learning
Who Should Attend?
LPCs
PLPCs
Social Workers
Psychologists
Marriage & Family Therapists
School Counselors
Graduate Students
Explore Course Agenda
The Image of Our Body
During our 3 hour course, we break down each of the following topics.
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Understanding Body Image
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The Impact of Shame and Cultural Messages
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Trauma, The Nervous System, and The Body
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Embodiment in Clinical Practice
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Practical Interventions and Exercises
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Case and Examples and Application
Meet Your Expert Instructor
Through trauma-informed practices Becca supports clients as they move through trauma and restore more of the whole self as both an embodied and brave space.
Hey, I’m Becca Bowers
PLPC
Becca Bowers is a provisionally licensed professional counselor specializing in trauma recovery, embodiment, body image, and identity after neurological trauma. She holds a Master's in Clinical Counseling and Pastoral Care from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and is fully trained in EMDR. Becca also partners with UL's Speech and Language department, both consulting and researching how to train therapists to counsel clients with communication disorders.
Her work centers on the mind-body connection as the starting point for healing, using trauma-informed care to help clients move through pain and reclaim a fuller sense of self. As Becca puts it: "Your body is sacred, your body is worth healing, and you are capable of recovering from trauma."
What Makes This Course Different
This training is comprehensive in the education of body image, body perception, and embodiment. When clients look at online information they are being shown “how to change your body image in 5 minutes”. My goal is to educate clinicians on this topic, the complexity of it, and encourage us all to sit with the discomfort of someone’s perception or feeling staying the same, until they are ready. We will leave with more language, feel comfortable to ask questions, and practice ways to connect with our body and mirror with someone else’s in session.
Practical, not just theoretical
Compassion Centered
Interactive & Experimental
Trauma - Informed
Inclusive & Affirming
Grounded in Clinical Work
Frequently Asked Questions
What topics are covered in the course?
Beginner but advanced training use these same words, tactics, and exercises. We will be learning together, being in a room full of other clinicians who are learning and asking questions is an important part of our clinical experience.
Will CE certificates be provided?
Yes! I love to send emails and create certificates. They will be in your inbox ready for board submission as soon as possible!
Is the training recorded?
Not this one! I would love your feedback so that when the training will be recorded, I’ve worked to make it accessible and understandable across the board.
Is this appropriate for clinicians who don't specialize in eating disorders?
Absolutely! Eating disorders is one area that is readily associated with body image, but everyone deals with body image. Even from young ages, well resourced persons, people with traumatic brain injuries, and so on work through body image struggles and growth.
What if I can't attend live?
I will be doing this workshop again! I know that may not be the best answer, we love recorded workshops so we can do them on our own time. I am working on that, but for now if you cannot attend live/online then there will be no recording. But stay in touch and if you have a need for consultation now, I will make time in my schedule! I love this work.
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