The phrase “eating disorder” describes conditions in which individuals engage in disordered eating. They are not simply poor eating habits but are recognised mental health disorders in which emotional issues manifest in harmful eating habits.

The three most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa (anorexia), bulimia nervosa (bulimia), and binge eating disorder. Though each of these disorders result in different eating behaviours, each occurs when sufferers cannot separate their emotions from their eating habits and this skews the way, and the amount, that they eat.

Counselling gives you the opportunity to talk in confidence about your disordered eating and your emotions. I would work with you to make sense of how your difficulties around food have come about, and so open the way for change.

Individual and group therapy can help you explore the issues underlying the eating disorder, improve self-esteem, and learn healthy ways of responding to stress and emotional pain. My goal is to help you promote a healthy relationship with food, and teach you constructive ways to cope with life and its challenges.

I realise that it is often very difficult to take the first step of making contact. An initial one hour assessment appointment gives us the opportunity to exchange information and decide whether counselling, or some other form of help is what you are looking for.