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How do counselors remain collaborative while working with anorexia and bulimia? Making local knowledge more visible, and moving away from generalized dominant stories about people with eating disorders, this conversation moves beyond distinctions of diagnosis to ways of being and speaking that bring forth the client’s experience.

Ali Borden meets with several women who have had life-threatening struggles with anorexia and bulimia. She models ways of privileging a client’s knowledge, ideas, and resources, noting that confrontation does not produce change. She then discusses with Larry Zucker narrative approaches to anorexia and bulimia and clinicians’ fears and responsibility.

This video introduces students to a discursive approach to therapy similar to Narrative, Solution Focused and other discursive therapies with a special focus on a series of interview questions called the four healing questions. In the video you will learn the basic theoretical principals of testimony work, and the significance of the four healing questions. You will also find a demonstration of testimony therapy and the healing questions in the first session with a couple seeking help.

Testimony therapy, developed by Dr. Makungu Akinyela is an Africentric system of therapy grounded in the experiences, history and cultural knowledge of the African American community. Dr. Akinyela points out however that while it is specific in it's cultural grounding as are all approaches to therapy, Testimony therapy is universal in it's application possibilities. In much the same way that African, Asian, Latin and Native American people might learn from and expand upon the methods of European and Anglo-American therapists, it is hoped that these therapists can learn from and find useful the work of Testimony therapy and other non-western approaches to therapeutic work.