A Compassionate Approach to Eating Disorder Recovery

You Deserve Support

Working with people who are struggling with eating disorders and disordered eating can be complex, emotional, and at times deeply challenging — but it’s also some of the most meaningful and rewarding work I do.

Eating disorders can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender, weight, or background. And while the behaviours may centre around food, body image or weight, the causes often run much deeper. These are not choices or phases; they’re often coping strategies, tangled up with self-worth, safety, control, and emotional pain.

I’ve been there too. My path into this work wasn’t only through study, but through lived experience. I’ve had my own complicated relationship with food, and my curiosity to understand it deepened when I supported a family member through bulimia. That combination of personal insight and professional training gives me a layered perspective - and a lot of compassion for how nuanced this work truly is.

Every client brings something unique. Some people I work with have formal diagnoses - anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, or OSFED. Others describe feeling out of control with food, obsessing over weight, or eating emotionally, without ever having had a label. In truth, labels are less important than the lived experience. If food, your body, or eating takes up too much space in your mind, you deserve support.

The space I offer adapts to you. I work in a way that’s collaborative, flexible, and centred around safety and trust. I draw on counselling, but also bring in practical therapeutic tools such as:

• Solution-focused hypnotherapy – to explore unconscious patterns, calm the nervous system, and build internal strength

• EFT tapping – to gently shift feelings like shame, fear, guilt or self-loathing

• NLP – to help shift limiting beliefs and encourage new, more compassionate self-talk

• Psychoeducation and nutritional understanding – because when we understand what’s happening in our bodies and minds, we’re less likely to blame ourselves for it

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach here. Some clients want deep, exploratory work. Others want immediate tools to manage binge urges, reduce anxiety, or stop obsessing about food. Whatever the goal, I tailor each session to support the emotional, psychological and behavioural aspects of what’s going on - always with gentleness and consent.

You don’t have to be in crisis to ask for help. So many people feel they’re “not unwell enough” to deserve support. But eating disorders and disordered eating often exist in the grey areas, and those grey areas matter too. You don’t need to be in a hospital, or underweight, or hitting rock bottom to want peace with food and with yourself. You’re allowed to ask for help now.

You’re not alone in this. Shame, stigma and silence keep so many people from speaking up. And part of my job is to break that silence, to offer a space where all parts of you are welcome, including the ones you’ve hidden or muted for years.

If this resonates...

I offer a free 20-minute consultation to talk things through and explore whether we’re a good fit. Sessions are available online or in person from my therapy space in Hampton Hill (TW12).

Whether you’re just starting to question your relationship with food, in the thick of recovery, or coming back after a setback — you are welcome. You don’t have to face this alone.