A Successful Lunch & Learn: Eating Disorders & the Road to Recovery
There is something different about learning in a room filled with clinicians who are willing to ask questions, share perspectives, and connect around the work we do every day.
On October 2, 2026, Find Your Balance Center for Growth & Change hosted our Lunch & Learn, Eating Disorders & the Road to Recovery, in collaboration with Alsana.
The event brought mental health professionals together in Woodland Hills for an afternoon focused on clinical education, meaningful conversation, and connection.
And we are grateful to say it was a success.
Learning Beyond the CE Credit
Continuing education is important.
But the value of a professional training is not only the credit earned at the end.
It is the opportunity to leave with a stronger understanding of something you may encounter in your own clinical work.
Our featured speaker, Keesha N. Amezcua, MA, LMFT, CEDS-S, CDWF, shared her expertise on eating disorders and the road to recovery.
The conversation helped reinforce an important message:
You do not have to specialize in eating disorders to encounter them in your practice.
Clients may initially seek treatment for concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, perfectionism, body-image struggles, relationship difficulties, or emotional distress.
Understanding how eating-disorder concerns may appear and when additional assessment, collaboration, or referral may be appropriate can help clinicians become more informed and responsive in their work.
Creating Space for Clinicians to Connect
One of our goals with the Lunch & Learn was to create more than a presentation.
We wanted to create a space where clinicians could:
Learn from an experienced professional
Ask meaningful clinical questions
Connect with other mental health providers
Strengthen referral relationships
Step outside their usual day-to-day routines
Continue growing professionally
Mental health work can sometimes feel isolating.
Opportunities to connect with other professionals remind us that none of us has to practice in a vacuum.
Collaboration Makes Better Care Possible
Events like this also highlight the importance of relationships across the behavioral-health community.
No clinician or organization can meet every need.
Building connections with professionals, specialty programs, higher levels of care, and other community resources can make it easier to identify appropriate support when a client needs something outside our individual scope or expertise.
Our collaboration with Alsana gave attendees an opportunity to learn more about eating-disorder treatment while strengthening connections across the mental-health community.
Thank You to Everyone Who Joined Us
To every clinician who attended:
Thank you for spending part of your Friday learning with us.
Thank you for your questions.
Thank you for the conversations.
And thank you for continuing to invest in your professional growth and the quality of care you provide.
We also want to thank Keesha N. Amezcua for sharing her expertise and Alsana for collaborating with us to make this event possible.
Help Us Make the Next Lunch & Learn Even Better
If you attended the event or you'd like to join the next, we would love to hear from you.
Answer the Lunch & Learn survey:
More Professional Education Is Coming
This Lunch & Learn is part of a larger goal at FYBC:
Creating more opportunities for clinicians to learn, connect, share expertise, and grow.
As a CAMFT-approved continuing education provider, FYBC is continuing to expand our professional education programming.
Future opportunities may include:
CEU trainings
Lunch & Learns
Clinical webinars
Professional development events
Clinician collaboration
Opportunities for professionals to teach and share their expertise
If there is a topic you would like to learn about or a clinical area you would be interested in teaching we would love to hear from you.
Join Us at the Next One
If you missed this Lunch & Learn, this will not be the last opportunity to join us.
We are continuing to create professional events designed to bring clinicians together around education, collaboration, and meaningful clinical conversations.
Follow Find Your Balance Center for upcoming Lunch & Learns, CEU trainings, webinars, and professional-development opportunities.
We hope to see you at the next one!
Stay Connected With FYBC
Find Your Balance Center for Growth & Change provides psychotherapy and psychiatric medication management through telehealth across California while also supporting professional education and collaboration within the mental-health community.
Visit FYBC: https://www.findyourbalancecenter.com/
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