Speaking Experience

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• Narrative Therapy: How the Stories You're Telling Yourself Can be Ruining Your Life, CEU Series Peachford Hospital (2019)

• Understanding Client Resistance as Pathological Ambivalence, Anxiety and Stress  Management CEU series  (2019)                      

• Understanding Client Resistance as Pathological Ambivalence, CEU presentation , Richmont University (2019)​

• Dealing With Ambivalence in Psychotherapy: How to be on Your Client's Side without Taking a Side, October Road CEU PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION/TRAINING SERIES, Asheville, NC (2019).

• Dealing With Ambivalence in Psychotherapy: How to Be on Your Client’s Side  without Taking a Side. Metro Atlanta Chapter of GAMFT CEU series (2019)

• Conducting Psychotherapy from a System’s Perspective. CEU presentation for the Georgia Psychological Association, Annual conference. (2018)

• Helping Clients Rewrite Their Stories With Narrative Therapy. Anxiety and Stress Management Institute CEU workshop series. (2018)

• Understanding and Treating Eating Disorders. CME presentation to Dekalb Medical Hospital conference. (2018)

• Differential Diagnosis and Scope of Practice for Eating Disorders. CEU Concepts. Trained. LPCs and LMFTs in these areas per a regulation requiring training. (2018)

• Doing What Works: Practical Strategies for Working With Eating Disorders. CEU Presentation for eating disorder clinicians. Atlanta, GA. (2017)

• Differential Diagnosis and Scope of Practice for Eating Disorders. CEU Concepts. Trained. LPCs and LMFTs in these areas per a regulation requiring training. (2016)

• How to be on Your Client’s Side Without Taking A Side. CEU workshop for the International Association for Eating Disorder Professionals Symposium, Amelia Island. (2016)

• Addressing Trauma-Based Schemas, Shame and Projections in the Treatment of Eating Disorders, SEED Conference, New Orleans, LA. (2015)

• Understanding and Treating Eating Disorders, Willowbrook at Tanner Hospital, CE workshop. (2015)

• Common Myths related to the Development of Eating Disorders. Fulton County School Social Workers. (2015)

• Common Myths related to the Development of Eating Disorders Dentists and Hygienists Study Group Feb. 2015. (2015)

• A Therapists Toolkit for working with Individuals with Eating Disorders. CEU workshop for clinicians presented in collaboration with Oliver-Pyatt Centers. (2014)

• Treatment of Eating Disorders Workshop presented to students at the Emory Physician Assistants Program. (2014)

• Understanding and Treating Eating Disorders: Factors and Myths Related to Developing an Eating Disorder CEU workshop presented for Southern Crescent Behavioral Health System Anchor Hospital & Crescent Pines Hospital. (2014)

• Dealing With Resistance, CEU workshop presented in collaboration with The Highlands treatment center. (2012)

• Eating Disorders and Healthy Body Image Pace Academy PTA meeting. (2011)

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TV Interviews and articles

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• CW69’s Focus Atlanta about Treatment options for people with eating disorders (2017) watch it here

• Fox 5’s Paul Miliken about the incidence of eating disorders and the Smash Your Scale Event (2014) watch it here

• Fox 5’s Paul Miliken about the problems some people have with compulsive weighing (2014)

• WAGA-TV's Beth Galvin about the challenges of anorexia and bulimia and the common myths associated with these disorders. Interviewed on two separate occasions. (2013)  watch it here

• WSB-TV’s John Bachman about common myths related to developing an eating disorder (2013) watch it here

• WRLB-TV’s Brandice Hudson about common myths and treatment options for people with Disorders. (2013) watch it here

• Channel 2’s Carol Sparge, Evening News Special Assignment on Eating Disorders in younger Children (1996)

• Campus Life syndicated for CNN local channels on the cultural problems of eating disorders (1996)

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Research & Publications

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• Buchanan, L.P. (2019). A Clinician’s Guide to Dealing With Pathological Ambivalence: How to Be On your Client’s Side Without Taking a Side. TPI Press, NY: NY.

• Buchanan, L.P. (in progress). I’m Not Good Enough: How the stories you tell yourself are ruining your life.

• Buchanan, L.P. (2017). Intensive outpatient treatment of eating disorders. In S. Walfish, J.E. Barnett, & J. Zimmerman, (Eds.) Handbook of Private Practice. Oxford University Press, NY:NY.

• Reviewer and contributor (2016). Eating Disorders and Scope of Competence for Outpatient Psychotherapists. Practice Innovations, S. Walfish, Ed. American Psychological Association, Div. 42.

• Schaffner, A.D. & Buchanan, L.P. (2010). Evidence-based practices in outpatient treatment for eating disorders. International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Treatment, 6 (1), 35-44.

• Schaffner, A.D. & Buchanan, L.P. (2008). Integrating evidence-based treatments with individual needs in an outpatient facility for eating disorders.  Eating Disorders: Journal of Treatment and Prevention, 16 (5), 378-392.

• Buchanan, L.P., (1994), Helping people with eating disorders: Researach and practice. In J. Lewis (Ed.), Addictions: Concepts and Strategies for Treatment. Gaithersburg: Aspen.

• Buchanan, L.P. (1993). Coping resources, personality, and research design in eating disorder subgroups. Doctoral dissertation, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

• Buchanan, L.P., & Buchanan, W.L., (1992). Eating disorders: Bulimia and anorexia. In L. L’Abate , J. Farrar & D. Serritella (Eds.), Handbook of Differential Treatments of Addictions. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

• Buchanan, L.P., Kern, R. & Bell-Dumas, J. (1991). A comparison of created versus actual early recol-lections. Individual Psychology.

• Buchanan, W. L., Bennett, K., Buchanan, L. P., Turzo, A. (1984) Positive psychological side effects resulting from participation in a behavioral weight reduction program. Poster Session, Annual Convention of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA), New Orleans, LA

• Mauger, P., Buchanan, L.P. et al, The MMPI as a Measure of Interpersonal Behavior (1983). Research group paper presented at the 18th Annual Symposium on Recent Developments in the Use of the MMPI, Minnesota.