Eating Disorder Counselling
A Gentle, Supportive Space to Explore Your Relationship With Food and Your Body
Reaching out for support around food, eating, or body image can feel overwhelming. Many people worry about being judged, dismissed, or not being “sick enough” to deserve help. You do not have to carry those fears alone.
I offer eating disorder counselling in a calm, confidential space where we can explore your experiences at a steady pace, without pressure or expectation. Whether you’re navigating long-term eating difficulties, moments of distress around food, or a relationship with your body that feels confusing or exhausting, therapy can offer a place to breathe, reflect, and begin to make sense of what’s happening.
All sessions are held online, allowing you to choose a setting that feels comfortable and safe. I am COSCA-accredited and work integratively, drawing from person-centred, psychodynamic, trauma-informed, and neurodivergent-aware approaches.
Understanding Eating Difficulties
Eating disorders and disordered eating are complex emotional experiences, not choices or personal failures. They often develop as ways of coping with overwhelm, identity pressure, trauma, perfectionism, or deep internal beliefs about worth and control. Every story is different.
You may recognise patterns that feel familiar, or you may feel confused by changes in your eating or emotions. For many people, food becomes tangled with feelings, identity, stress, or safety in ways that are difficult to untangle alone.
These struggles can feel isolating and carry a lot of shame or fear of being misunderstood. Eating disorder counselling offers space to explore this gently and without judgement. My role is not to label or analyse you, but to understand your experience from the inside and support you in building clarity and compassion for yourself.
How Eating Disorder Therapy Can Help
Eating disorder therapy can support you in understanding your relationship with food and your body in a way that feels grounded and safe. Often, the work begins with what’s happening emotionally, long before any changes in patterns feel possible.
For some, therapy is the first place they’ve been able to speak honestly about how food, identity, and emotions have become intertwined. For others, it becomes a space to explore perfectionism, self-criticism, or the pressure to appear “fine” on the outside.
Over time, counselling can help reduce shame, soften harsh beliefs, and make sense of coping patterns that once felt necessary but may no longer be serving you. We work towards reconnecting with your body in a more compassionate way, building trust slowly and with care.
My role as an eating disorder therapist is not to push you into change, but to support you in understanding yourself more deeply so that change can grow in a way that feels safe and sustainable.
My Therapeutic Approach
My work is integrative, meaning I adapt how I work to your needs and capacity.
A person-centred foundation shapes everything I do. This means I follow your pace, responding to your experience rather than directing it. The therapeutic relationship sits at the heart of our work, offering empathy, safety, and a sense of being understood.
From a psychodynamic perspective, we may gently explore deeper emotional patterns that shape your relationship with food or your body, including early experiences, family dynamics, identity struggles, or internalised pressures you may have carried for years without realising.
Working in a trauma-informed way means recognising how mind and body respond to overwhelm. Many eating difficulties develop as survival strategies, not deliberate choices. Therapy honours that wisdom rather than pathologising it, helping to slowly untangle shame and fear.
My approach is also neurodivergent-aware. For neurodivergent clients, eating can be influenced by sensory needs, routines, overwhelm, or difficulty recognising internal signals. We explore this gently and without judgement, making space for identity, masking, emotional intensity, and lived experience.
Across all of this, flexibility is central. Some sessions may feel reflective and spacious, others more grounding and containing. The work adapts to you.
Working With Neurodivergent Clients
If you are neurodivergent, or exploring that possibility, your relationship with food may feel particularly complex. You might rely on familiar foods for sensory safety, forget to eat during hyperfocus, or experience sudden shifts between intensity and shutdown.
Masking, emotional depth, rejection sensitivity, and black-and-white thinking can all shape eating patterns in ways that feel confusing or heavy.
I offer neurodivergent counselling within my work as a therapist for eating disorders, creating space where you don’t have to mask or explain yourself. Together, we work gently, honouring your lived experience and supporting autonomy, understanding, and self-trust at a pace that feels right for you.
What Sessions Are Like
Sessions last 50 minutes and take place online. You choose where you sit, whether you bring a blanket or a cup of tea, whether you speak freely or take time to find words. There is no expectation to be polished or prepared.
We move at your pace. Some weeks you may have a lot to say, others you might need silence, grounding, or gentle reflection. There is no right way to be in therapy.
My priority is that you feel safe, held, and supported, with consent and comfort always guiding the work. This is counselling for eating disorders shaped around you.
Training and background
Postgraduate Diploma in Person-Centred and Psychodynamic Counselling (University of Edinburgh, COSCA-accredited)
BA (Hons) Psychology with Sociology (Edinburgh Napier University).
Clinical placements at Health in Mind, ESMS Schools, and the West End Therapy Centre, working with a diverse range of clients and presenting issues.
Why I Do This Work
Supporting people with eating difficulties is deeply meaningful to me. I understand how overwhelming and consuming these struggles can be, and how much identity, emotion, and self-worth can become tangled with food and the body.
Therapy offers something rare, a space where you do not need to be strong, convincing, or apologetic. Somewhere you don’t need to say “I’m fine”. A space where shame can begin to loosen and understanding can take root.
I believe in slow, compassionate healing. I believe in meeting you exactly where you are. And I believe you deserve a life where your inner world feels less heavy and more understood.
Fees
My fee is £70 per 50-minute counselling session.
Get Started
Sessions are held online for accessibility and comfort. You can book a free 15-minute consultation to explore whether counselling feels right for you.
Eating Disorder Counselling FAQs
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Eating disorder counselling offers a confidential, supportive space to explore difficulties around food, eating, and body image. It focuses on your emotional world and lived experience rather than symptoms or labels, helping you build understanding, self-compassion, and steadiness.
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Eating disorder therapy is shaped specifically around the emotional, identity, and relational aspects of eating difficulties. As an eating disorder therapist, I work gently and integratively to explore deeper patterns, trauma, stress, perfectionism, and self-worth that may sit beneath your relationship with food.
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No. You do not need a formal diagnosis to begin counselling for eating disorders. Many people seek support because something about food or their body feels difficult, confusing, or heavy, and that is enough.
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This is a very common worry. You do not have to be at a certain point to deserve support. If your relationship with food or your body feels distressing, eating disorder counselling can offer a safe place to explore that.
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Our work focuses on your emotional experience rather than monitoring or analysing behaviours. We explore what food and body image mean for you, and what may sit beneath those patterns, always at a pace that feels safe.
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There is no set number. Some people come for short-term support, while others work longer-term. This is something we can explore together, with regular check-ins to ensure the therapy continues to meet your needs.
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You can book a free 15-minute consultation or enquire directly via the contact form. Reaching out is the first step, and you are welcome to take it at your own pace.