Professor Julia Buckroyd

Professor Julia Buckroyd

Julia Buckroyd is Emeritus Professor of Counselling at the University of Hertfordshire. She has been working in the field of eating disorders since 1984. She trained first as a counsellor at Birkbeck College, University of London and then as a psychotherapist with the Guild of Psychotherapists. Her first post as a student counsellor in 1984 was at London Contemporary Dance School where she became interested in eating disorders. Her first book on eating disorders, Eating Your Heart Out, (2nd edition, Vega, 1996) derives mostly from this experience. From 1994 – 2008 she worked at the University of Hertfordshire while continuing her clinical work as a therapist. Her work with dancers, including work relating to eating disorders was published in The Student Dancer  (Dance Books, 2000). Since 2008 she has applied the insights of therapeutic work with eating disorders to obesity, as well as continuing her work on eating disorders.

From 2004 to 2007, she was editor of Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, the research journal for BACP.

She has developed a programme for emotional eaters available to the general public, Understanding your Eating, www.understandingyoureating.co.uk. She has published an account of her ideas for the general reader in Understanding your Eating (Open University, 2011) In addition, Professor Buckroyd offers supervision, workshops and consultancy to a wide range of organisations on psychological approaches to all forms of disordered eating and related issues.

Website

http://www.understandingyoureating.co.uk/

 

Online Modules

Past and Current Confer Events

 

Filling the Void
Psychotherapeutic skills for working with obesity

Can I Really do This? What are rules of psychotherapy and are they negotiable?
Saturday 25 March 2017

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