Eating disorders are complex mental health conditions that can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender, or background. They can have a significant impact on physical health, emotional wellbeing, relationships, and everyday life. Difficulties may develop gradually, often becoming a way of coping with underlying emotional distress, anxiety, or a need for control.
Eating disorders take many forms, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, compulsive eating, and other patterns of disordered eating. You do not need to have a formal diagnosis to seek help. If your relationship with food is causing distress or beginning to dominate your life, support can make a difference.
Support tailored to you
I recognise that every eating disorder is different. Food is often the symptom rather than the cause, and effective treatment involves addressing both eating behaviours and the underlying emotional difficulties.
Therapy is tailored to your individual needs and may include:
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Understanding your eating disorder: Exploring the thoughts, feelings, experiences, and patterns of behaviour that contribute to your difficulties.
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Developing healthier eating patterns: Identifying triggers, challenging unhelpful beliefs about food, and reducing behaviours that maintain the eating disorder.
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Managing emotions and anxiety: Developing practical strategies to cope with distress, uncertainty, and difficult feelings without relying on eating disorder behaviours.
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Building self-awareness and self-esteem: Understanding the need for control, perfectionism, or other underlying factors that may contribute to your difficulties.
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Supporting lasting recovery: Developing strategies to manage setbacks, prevent relapse, and maintain progress beyond therapy.
I offer support at an early stage, even when difficulties do not meet the criteria for a formal diagnosis. Where appropriate, I also work collaboratively with families to help them understand the eating disorder and support recovery.
My aim is to help you develop a healthier relationship with food, build effective coping strategies, and address the underlying difficulties so that recovery becomes sustainable and you can regain a greater sense of freedom in your life.