Freedom Embodied: Healing Through A HAES Framework
Friday, January 23, 2026
9:30am-11:30pm
with Dr. Jennifer Wang-Hall, PhD, PSY
2 CE credits
Online via Zoom
(link will be sent in confirmation and reminder emails)
in collaboration with Central Coast Chapter
Description
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.
Educational Goals
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
At the end of this presentation, attendees 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.
Presenter
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.
Other Details
Time: 9:30am-11:30pm
Location: Online via Zoom (link will be sent in confirmation and reminder emails)
Cost:
Non-member $30
Chapter Member $25
Associate Member $20
Student Member $15
For questions, more information, accommodations: contact us at sacramentocamft@gmail.com. You may also contact Programs Co-Chairs Roque Neto at ramorimneto@paloaltou.edu and Iris McAlpin at iris@irismcalpin.com.
This is an introductory, intermediate, and advanced level course. This program will benefit LMFT, LPCC, LEP and LCSW licensees and pre-licensees. Open to all mental health professionals, both members and non-members.
This 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. The Sacramento Valley Chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (SVC-CAMFT), provider #62279, is approved by CAMFT to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. SVC-CAMFT maintains the responsibility for the program and all its content.
CE credit will be awarded via email after the completion of the course in exchange for a course evaluation. No CE credits will be awarded to persons not attending the presentation in it's entirety. Partial CE credit will not be awarded.
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