Dr. Johnston is a spell-binding international lecturer and workshop leader who blends ancient storytelling, modern psychology, spiritual wisdom, and contemporary women’s issues in a unique and powerful way. Her presentations are lively, engaging, and full of humor, insight, and compassion. She is known for her ability to use metaphor, stories, and imagery to teach complex psychological concepts in a way that is easily absorbed and eminently practical.

Her community presentations, personal growth workshops and professional seminars vary in length, and can be geared towards college students, health care professionals, and the community at large. Dr. Johnston is skilled at adapting her presentations to large audiences in seminar format or to small informal group settings.

Scheduling

For further information or to schedule an event contact Dr. Johnston at: DrAJ1@aol.com

Past Presentations

• Treating Eating Disorders With Imagery, Metaphor, and Storytelling
• Deciphering the Hunger Code: Understanding and Treating Eating Disorders Through Metaphor and Storytelling
• Soul Hunger: Understanding and Treating Disordered Eating
• Finding Freedom From Food and Weight Struggles
• Working with Metaphors to Integrate Body, Mind, and Spirit
• Body Talk: Using Metaphor to Treat Body Image and Eating Disorders
• Celebrating Every Body: Body Image & Disordered Eating Across the Lifespan
• Tending the Feminine Psyche with Storytelling and Metaphor
• Round Pegs & Square Holes: Body Image and the Feminine
• Using the Feminine Principle to Understand Disordered Eating
• Soul Cycles: The Four Faces of the Sacred Feminine
• Moontime: A Mother/Daughter Coming of Age Tea Party Cycle Celebrations Women's Circle
• Rounds Pegs & Square Holes: Treating Eating Disorders Through Balancing the Masculine & Feminine Principles
• Yin & Yang: Keeping the Balance
• Maidens & Moontime: Menarche and Eating Disorders
• Cycle Celebrations: Eating Disorders and the Menstrual Cycle
• Soul Food: The Healing Power of Storytelling
• Eating Disorders as Messengers of the Soul
• What all Clinicians Need to Know About Eating Disorders
• Working with Eating Disorders: Hope Change and Healing Using Metaphor & Storytelling
• Clinical Interventions for Eating Disorders
• Decoding the Language of the Eating Disorder
• Treating Compulsive & Binge Eating in Women
• Hunger and Severe Obesity
• Eating Disorders and Addiction
• How Can I Help?
• Breaking Free From Struggles With Food, Fat, and Dieting
• Listening to Your Body