Episode 112: Vanessa Kredler

<p>Vanessa is a counsellor and psychotherapist registered with the Australian Counselling Association. She has lived experience and takes a compassionate and curious approach to working with clients with a focus on addiction, complex trauma and the intergenerational nature of trauma. Vanessa’s special area is food addiction, because that was the first addiction that forced her into recovery. Her approach is trauma-informed, person-centred and informed by Internal Family Systems.</p> <p>Vanessa has an MA in Counselling (UNE), is a certified food addiction counsellor (INFACT), and has undertaken a range of trainings specific to Internal Family Systems. Vanessa’s work is influenced by her own recovery journey, and underpinned by the principle of “do your own work”, which means Vanessa is engaged in her own weekly IFS therapy and draws on somatic and other healing modalities.</p> <p>In this episode:</p> <p>Vanessa shares her personal recovery story and her AHA moment</p> <p>How this merged into her working in the field of Food Addiction</p> <p>How trauma can contribute to food addiction</p> <p>The differences between PTSD, complex trauma, attachment trauma and relational trauma and why working on our trauma can be important for our food addiction recovery.</p> <p>What the Internal Family Systems Model treatment modality is and what makes it unique</p> <p>Who is a good fit for this type of treatment and some of the actionable tools listeners can employ  </p> <p>How what she believed early on in her career has now changed <br /> Her </p> <p>Vanessa shares her own personal journey of recovery and how that has shaped the professional work today</p> <p>Follow Vanessa:</p> <p><a href= "https://www.vanessakredler.com">https://www.vanessakredler.com</a></p> <p><strong>Special Announcement From Sweet Sobriety</strong></p> <p>Sweet Sobriety is excited to announce our next monthly workshop topic Emotional Eating that will be hosted by the one and only Molly Painschab!</p> <p>Emotional Eating is incredibly common – IN FACT resea