BLISS JACKMAN

Combining lived experience supporting a child through recovery with qualifications and training in psychology, family therapy and peer work, Bliss provides families and carers of loved ones experiencing eating disorders with compassionate, evidence-informed approaches to navigating their support journey.

With over 5 years of experience in public and private eating disorder settings, most recently leading the lived experience team at The Victorian Centre of Excellence in Eating Disorders (CEED), Bliss practices with experience, expertise, and empathy.

Recognising that the needs of families and carers are as unique to them as the eating disorders experienced by their loved ones, Bliss's sessions are personalised and tailored to those attending.

Sessions are skills focused yet dynamic and flexible, responding to needs that arise whilst supporting someone's recovery journey - be it validation and emotional support or practical strategies and guidance. 

Bliss understands the complexity of supporting a loved one through eating disorder recovery and the need to be well-resourced internally as a caregiver. She enjoys working with caregivers to develop their own tool kits to call upon as well as unpacking, and stepping away from, held beliefs they have about eating disorders, diet culture and what recovery should or shouldn't look like. 

Bliss works from a single-session consultation framework as well as short and long term consultation. 

• Master of Family Therapy (Current)
• Bachelor of Psychological Science, Honours (Current)

• Association of Australian Family Therapy 
• Australian and New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders (ANZAED)

• Supporting families and carers of children and adolescents experiencing eating disorders
• Eating disorder recovery navigation
• Caregiver introspection and empowerment
• Caregiver education and upskilling
• Group supervision and reflective practice for allied health professionals
• Peer supervision for lived experience workforce

• Single Session Family Consultation, Bouverie Centre
• Single Session Peer Work, Bouverie Centre
• Clinical Supervision Training, Bouverie Centre
• Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Attachment-Based Family Therapy Training (ABFT)
• Temperament-Based Training with Supports (TBT-S) – Facilitator Training, CEED and Dr Laura Hill
• MCCAED Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) Training, CEED and Dr Rachel Bryant-Ward
• MCCAED Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa (FT-AN)
• Advanced Training in Eating Disorder Focused Family Therapy, Dr Andrew Wallis
• Multi-Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa (MFT) – Facilitator Training, Ceed & Dr Andrew Wallis
• Co-Design in The Real World with Authenticity, The Australian Centre For Social Innovation (TACSI)
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – Enhanced (CBT-E)
  Family-Based Treatment for Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa (FBT) Training
• Collaborative Care Skill Facilitators Workshop (CCSW) Facilitator Training
• Motivational Interviewing Training (MI)
• Intentional Peer Support (IPS)