How to Support your Child in Eating Disorder Recovery, whilst Maintaining Relationship and Connection, with Tom Wooldridge (PsyD)

Today, I'm talking to Tom Wooldridge, who is a is a board-certified clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and certified eating disorders specialist whose work sits at the intersection of psychoanalytic theory, the treatment of eating disorders—particularly in men and boys—and the developmental impact of digital technology.

Tom is Vice Provost for Digital Innovation and founding Dean of the School of Psychology at Golden Gate University, where he directs the Human Systems Lab on how AI and emerging technologies affect people and institutions, and he holds training and supervising analyst appointments at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.

He is the author or editor of six books, including End the Food Fight (Guilford Press, 2026), with a foreword by Susie Orbach, and more than twenty-five peer-reviewed articles. In 2024 he received the JAPA Award for the year's outstanding paper in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

In today's episode, Tom is going to talk about his new book End The Food Fight (Replacing Control with Connection to Help Your Child Heal from an Eating Disorder). Tom has some incredible insights and advice on how to support your struggling child, whilst maintaining connection and relationship with them - SO vital in the healing process. I hope that you enjoy the conversation.

To get in touch with Tom and/or to find out more about his work: https://www.tomwooldridge.com/eating-disorders

🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my work here: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

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