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Type: On-demand
Recorded: 15 Jul 2025

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Emotional eating: Mental health considerations in obesity

On-demand recorded 15 Jul 2025

This webinar will discuss how to effectively utilize a biopsychosocial approach to obesity in general practice. Achieving good biological and psychological health in obesity management requires more than just focusing on weight loss. This webinar will explore how GPs can empower patients to manage their eating holistically.

Using a trauma informed approach, addressing “fat shaming”, body image and self-esteem in individuals with obesity necessitates confidently exploring mental health factors, including eating disorders, as well as physical health and the influence of our “obesogenic society”. GP counselling skills such as Motivational interviewing and psycho education are effective in facilitating behaviour change.

Learning outcomes

  1. Appy GP counselling skills such as motivational interviewing and psycho education are effective behaviour change strategies for facilitating healthy eating.
  2. Discuss the link between emotions and hunger in obesity management and how to reinstate physiological hunger cues.
  3. Identify eating disorders by taking a biopsychosocial approach to obesity

Speakers

Dr Cathy Andronis
Chair, RACGP Specific Interests Psychological Medicine

Dr Cathy Andronis works as a GP and psychotherapist in inner Melbourne. She is the current chair of the RACGP Specific Interest faculty in Psychological Medicine, and a keen advocate for mental health in primary care. Cathy is a clinical member of the Australian Association of Family Therapy, a medical educator at Monash and Deakin Universities, and provider of clinical supervision, trainer in Focussed Psychological Strategies and a facilitator of case consultation groups with RACGP and ASPM.

Dr Terri-Lynne South
Chair of RACGP Specific Interests Obesity Management

With over 25 years of experience as a healthcare practitioner, both as a GP and accredited practising dietitian, Terri-Lynne has always had a special interest in health conditions associated with excess weight. She believes obesity is a chronic complex medical condition and should be treated as such. Terri-Lynne understands excess body weight has many causes, contributors, influences, impacts, risk factors, complications, and management options. From 2021, Terri-Lynne moved to a full-time focus on obesity and metabolic health, which grants her the time and commitment to further her life-long passion.

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