Hiding in Plain Sight: Treatment Considerations for Males with Eating Disorder

When
01/16/2026
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location
Children's Services Council 2300 High Ridge Road Boynton Beach, FL 33426

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Non Members – $45.00

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Hiding in Plain Sight: Treatment Considerations for Males with Eating Disorders

Dr. Amy Boyers

Description: Although most clinicians acknowledge that eating disorders do not just affect females, very few have actually treated a significant number of cases in males. This is made worse by the fact that current research and treatment options are heavily oriented towards females which creates a gap in the availability of appropriate treatment settings for males. This talk will review how eating disorder diagnoses in males may present differently than in their female counterparts, identify male subgroups that are at particularly high risk for developing eating disorders (such as athletes and LGBTQ males), and also discuss shortcomings in current assessment tools and treatment settings. Additionally, this talk discusses common barriers to treatment for males that they may experience in the therapy office, in their families, and in our society/culture.

Learning Objectives:

Review basic statistics about the incidence of ED’s in males
Understand how ED’s present in males versus how they present in females
Review ways in which ED treatment is biased towards “SWAG” (skinny, white, affluent girls) and how to make treatment more effective for male clients

CEU Workshop Agenda

11:00 am Registration and networking
11:30 am Self-introductions
Noon Presentation starts
12:45 pm Lunch and networking
1:15 pm Presentation continues
2:15 pm Workshop ends

2.0 General CEU Hours

Dr. Amy Boyers is the founder and president of Galen Hope, which provides mental health, eating disorder, and dual diagnosis treatment for adults and teens in Coral Gables, Florida. Galen Hope emphasizes community integration, support for families, and building a sense of connection and belonging as essential to healing.

Dr. Boyers has been in private practice in Miami since 2001, where she provides therapy to adolescents and adults, with a focus on women’s health, eating disorders, anxiety and mood disorders, and behavioral medicine.

After graduating with honors from the University of Pennsylvania, she was awarded a prestigious U.S. Department of Defense psychological research fellowship at the University of Miami, where she completed her masters and doctoral degrees. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at the University of Miami Counseling Center, and a post-doctoral residency at the Renfrew Center, where she was a primary therapist in their intensive outpatient program for eating disorders. During a second residency at the University of Miami, she served as the primary therapist on an NCI-funded research project studying cognitive-behavioral stress management and relaxation training for breast cancer survivors

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