Understanding Your Eating Training



Qualified and experienced counsellors, psychotherapists and health, education and social care practitioners are eligible to apply for this training.

This training consists of two parts Part 1 a self-study day followed by 2 online days
These 3 days together allow you to be called a Licenced Practitioner and establish the basis for this way of practising with these clients.
Clients using weight loss drugs need additional support as NICE recommends if they are not to revert to former patterns of bingeing and overeating.
This Progamme is ideally suited to working with this client group

A further 4 days of training will provide you with nine additional four session modules which provide additional training on the central issues for binge, compulsive and emotional eaters.
If a client chooses to undertake the whole programme it will provide 41 sessions or approximately 1 year of therapy.

Core Training(3 days – inc 1day of self study)
£420 in total (payable by instalments if required)
Day 1 (self study £100) Attachment Theory and its Relevance to Eating Disorders (Anytime)
1000 word essay required to obtain certification.
(It is also highly recommended as a preliminary to any of the courses listed below).

Day 2 and 3 £320 for 2 days 11th October 2025 and 8th November 2025. This is a semi structured programme devised by Professor Julia Buckroyd for delivery to a client over 5 sessions. The practitioner is supported by a comprehensive practitioner guidebook. The Core Programme covers 5 topics including emotional eating and the language of feelings, self -soothing, self-esteem, body esteem and relationships.
Client workbooks are also provided.
Free entry onto the UYE website included.

Module Training (Optional 4 days – usually over 2 weekends. Dates to be negotiated with delegates)
Cost £640 including guidebook and client workbooks

You may also wish to purchase Julia's book ' Understanding Your Eating: How to eat and not worry about it' which is available from Amazon.


Practitioners may reserve a place may be reserved on any course with a £50 deposit and further course payments may be made by pre-arranged instalments.

The courses will all be delivered live via Zoom, but those who are not able to make the dates can obtain a recording and the accompanying notes and exercises.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND TO BOOK COURSES PLEASE CONTACT BARBARA SCOTT: barbara@juliabuckroydtraining.com