Endgame for Recovery: Medication Management and the Strategic Return to Sport
- Describe the psychiatrist’s role on the multidisciplinary team and psychopharmacology as one tool in the recovery toolbox.
- Identify risk factors specific to athletes, common co-occurring conditions, and barriers to mental health treatment in general, for athletes and for athletes with eating disorders.
- Evaluate the critical tasks of identifying, assessing, and treating mental health issues in athletes with eating disorders and the complexities that come with this specific population.
- Emphasize education and communication as essential tools in treating mental health issues of athletes and how this is key to their futures and the future of this work.
Speaker: Amy Laurent, MD – Attending Psychiatrist for Athlete EDGE™ at EDCare
Dr. Laurent is a psychiatrist who grew up in Michigan and completed her undergrad degree at Loyola University Chicago. She went on to complete medical school at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and residency in psychiatry at Good Samaritan Hospital/Banner Health in Phoenix, AZ. Dr. Laurent is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and sees adult clients. She has particular interests in cultural and nutritional psychiatry and believes in healing/treating the whole person: mind, body and spirit. This includes education and support to empower them to live their healthiest and most balanced lives.
Dr. Laurent is happy to be a part of EDCare staff, working within a multidisciplinary model, to provide psychiatric care to patients working toward recovery from eating disorders. Additionally, she is excited to be a part of the Athlete EDGE program to ensure athletes are addressing their mental health needs as much as their physical needs in order to achieve optimum performance in a healthy way. She is a member of the International Society for Sports Psychiatry (ISSP) and working toward additional certification in Sport Psychiatry to better serve this population.
Brought to you in collaboration with The Eating Disorder Foundation and EDCare Athlete Edge
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The goal of the presentation will be to explore the ways individuals can create stabilization with eating disorder and mental health symptoms. Creating a strong foundation will allow individuals to dig into deeper work with outpatient team. Having a strong foundation is critical to allowing deeper work to continue to stick.
When: Thursday, May 18th
Time: 5:00-6:00pm Mountain Time
Who: Everyone is welcome
Where: Virtually on Zoom
Cost: Free
Brought to you in collaboration with Lightfully Behavioral Health
Part of the Diverse Recovery Workshop Series
Join us as Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Eating Disorders Specialist-Supervisor Meredith Nisbet explores the ways we create and define health in eating disorder recovery. Meredith will provide a weight-inclusive and recovery-minded framework for pursuing your personal version of health, support for how to access supportive healthcare, and resources to help you along the way.
When: Thursday, June 1st
Time: 5:00-6:00pm Mountain Time
Who: Everyone is welcome
Where: Virtually on Zoom
Cost: Free
Brought to you in collaboration with Eating Recovery Center and Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center
Learn more or register on Eventbrite
Those of you on a journey of recovery from an eating disorder at age 50 and beyond are courageous survivors. You have resiliency, inner knowing and a variety of life experiences that have brought you to a unique and powerful stage of discovery and well-being. By coming together with intention for healing and relating with those who share a path with you, you will find validation and community with a circle of survivors who support your successes and struggles.
We invite you to take this opportunity as a gift for yourself, to share with others your experiences in career, caregiving, relationships, and identity combined with the challenges of navigating your course with an eating disorder.
Inspired by our 50+ Support Group and facilitated by Bonnie Brennan, LPC, CEDS-S, CAI, this 2-day retreat honors the wisdom, strength, and experiences of individuals 50+ in recovery from eating disorders, disordered eating, or body image concerns. We invite you to join this in-person retreat, where we will share, experience, and reflect deeper into life in recovery over 50. This June, we will provide loving group discussion, experientials, compassionate tools, the joy of togetherness, and nourishment in the beautiful setting at A Place of Our Own in Denver, Colorado. Space will be limited to keep the retreat intimate.
June 16th & 17th
9am-4pm each day
In-person (local and out-of-state participants welcome)
Cost: $650
A limited number of scholarship spots will be available.
This retreat is primarily funded thanks to funding from the NextFifty Initiative.
Also Sponsored by EDCare
