Tory Butterworth, PhD Licensed Professional Counselor Working with Women Who Eat Their Feelings Tory lives in Swissvale, Pennsylvania, with her cat Bob.
Tory Butterworth, PhD
Licensed Professional Counselor
Tory Butterworth, PhD spent twenty years addressing her compulsive eating issues through diets, exercise, and lifestyle changes, successfully shedding the desired pounds many times but each time gaining them back, with additional weight. Finally, at the age of thirty-eight, she wised up and admitted that she would not be able to maintain a nor
mal weight until she dealt with the psychological issues underlying her compulsive eating. For the past twenty years she has been using a variety of techniques to heal eating issues within herself and her clients. Through the Bodynamics body-mind psychotherapy training program, Tory learned how to identify and work with unresolved developmental issues. This work is based on a seven-stage developmental model, which pinpoints the specific problems each client brings into therapy. Body, mind, and spiritual techniques are then applied based on the particular issues involved. Tory is trained at the practitioner level through the Bodynamics Institute, USA. Shock trauma is created by incidents in a person’s life which threatened his or her survival. Tory learned to identify and resolve shock trauma through the three-year Embodiment training program developed by Bill Cornell, MA. Tory diagnoses and treats these issues with her compulsive eating clients as a part of her work with them. Tory has extensive experience with mind-body approaches to spirituality. She has practiced yoga since she was sixteen, completing yoga teacher training through Shadyside Yoga, Pittsburgh, PA. She has done extensive study in metaphysics, guided meditation, and practical mysticism through The Upper Room, Swissvale, PA. She uses these skills when she conducts groups and workshops in STOP Eating Your Feelings. She has co-led groups in Mindfulness for Depression and Mindful Eating through Mercy Behavioral Health in Pittsburgh, PA, where she worked as a therapist and then a trainer for mental health staff. After receiving her PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan, Tory conducted research in medical decision making for ten years at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and The University of Pittsburgh. She has authored articles in academic journals, written book chapters, presented at academic conferences, and was the co-investigator on two grants funded through the National Institute of Health. Her hobbies include yoga, folk dancing and writing fiction.
01/12/2025
Looking for last minute CEUs?
I'm excited to be teaching a virtual class for psychotherapists called Emotional Eating: Identifying and Treating Clients Using Your Own Modality.
As a therapist, you may be treating clients who are emotional eaters and not even know it. With a few more tools in your tool belt, you can reach them on a new level. Three CEUs are offered upon completion of this course.
I'm excited to be teaching a virtual class for psychotherapists called Emotional Eating: Identifying and Treating Clients Using Your Own Modality.
As a therapist, you may be treating clients who are emotional eaters and not even know it. With a few more tools in your tool belt, you can reach them on a new level. Three CEUs are offered upon completion of this course.
Too Much
As emotional overeaters, we eat too much. Research on healthy eaters shows they eat a wide variety of foods, including foods that many of us consider unhealthy, such as those high in fat, salt or sugar. The difference between healthy eaters and emotional eaters is that healthy eaters eat only when t...
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Creating Peace in Communication: Using the BodyKnot in Therapy, Team Building and Community Development
I'm teaching a Continuing Education live online class for the University of Pittsburgh October 8th from 9 a.m. to noon. 3 CEUs. Here's the registration form if you're interested:
Do you eat your feelings? If so, diet and exercise plans can actually make your problem worse. You will need to learn new ways of handling your emotions before you can lose weight and keep it off.
Take this free 5-minute quiz to see how often you eat your feelings: torybutterworth.com/take-the-quiz/
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How many times have you lost those unwanted pounds, only to gain them back again and then some? Take this free 5-minute quiz to determine if you’re a compulsive overeater: https://torybutterworth.com/take-the-quiz/
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