228 Part 1 -Standard approaches for treating clients with eating disorders focus largely on eating management, calorie counting, and food diaries, with famously poor results. This workshop will present an approach that looks at eating disorders as clients' attempts to resolve traumatic experiences they can't articulate. Using case studies along with clients' journals and artwork, we'll discuss how binging, anorexia, and bulimia are metadialogues about unspeakable traumatic experiences. We'll explore eating disorders as metaphors: bingers build a shield for their bodies; anorectics communicate invisibility and helplessness; bulimics seek to get rid of what's intolerable. Participants will learn a variety of treatment strategies to help clients find their voices and experience alternative ways to resolve trauma and rebuild their lives. (This session will continue in Workshop 328.)