Description: A detailed, practical look at using cognitive behavioral strategies to support weight loss and long-term maintenance. Participants observe how clear structure, skill-building, and moment-to-moment coaching help clients manage cravings, reduce unplanned eating, and shift long-standing patterns around food, guilt, and self-control. The session shows how tools like daily motivation practice, planned flexibility, and “no choice” thinking can strengthen follow-through and help clients build a sustainable relationship with eating rather than cycling through diets.
Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., is President of Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Philadelphia, a non-profit organization that provides a variety of training programs to health and mental health professionals worldwide, and a Clinical Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. She has authored over 100 chapters and articles and several books, including Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond, which has been translated into over 20 languages, Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems, and books for consumers on a CBT approach to weight loss and maintenance. She divides her time among teaching, clinical work, supervision, administration, program development and consultation, and writing.