Full recovery and a peaceful relationship with food and your body is possible.
I specialise in eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, and body image concerns, helping clients nurture a caring and compassionate relationship with food and their bodies through a non-weight focused, non-diet approach.
I work with adolescents and adults. I offer individual nutrition and body image counselling sessions for those healing from chronic dieting, body image concerns, disordered eating and those in recovery from an eating disorder.
In eating disorder care, I collaborate with other members of a client’s treatment team, including their GP, psychologist and/or psychiatrist. With adolescents, I also closely work with parents and caregivers so they can support their loved one in becoming nourished and well.
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In sessions with my clients, I create a safe, judgement-free, therapeutic space where you can come, process, and learn how to be with and in your body and how how to make peace with food. My style is a mixture of counselling, coaching, and educating, so clients can gain insight, tools, and experiences in what a healthy relationship with food and their body looks and feels like.
In working together, we’ll explore various tools to aid in your food and body image healing journey: nutrition education and science, intuitive eating principles, mindfulness practices, self-compassion, the Health at Every Size® (HAES) approach, self-care, and various self-coaching techniques.
Areas explored in session include:
Ending body and food preoccupation. In other words, how to stop thinking about numbers, calories, food rules, and your body.
Becoming properly nourished and building a flexible, healthy relationship with food.
Attuning to your body’s hunger and fullness signals, non-judgementally.
Exploring what it’s like to move and connect with your body out of kindness and respect.
How you can cope with emotions with kindness.
Building flexibility in your thinking with respect to food, your body and movement.
Reflecting upon and redefining your own definition of health for your age, stage, and phase of life.
Removing shame and guilt around food.
Developing skills to approach yourself with curiosity, compassion and care.
Learning to tolerate the emotions uncomfortable emotions so you can be with your body and yourself, especially during challenging food and body image moments.
Connecting with your values in food and body image healing work.
Enlisting the support of people in your life and finding activities, and hobbies that mirror where you want to go in your life and that broaden your concept of self and self-worth.
I do this work because I believe that:
All bodies, of all sizes are deserving of respect, care, and kindness.
All individuals deserve weight-inclusive, non-shaming care. (Body diversity is a fact and even if we all ate and moved in the same ways, different body shapes and sizes would still exist).
You don’t have to love your body to have a peaceful relationship with your body.
Eating should be flexible, enjoyable and fun (not rigid and anxiety-inducing)
You can trust your body and with time, your body will trust you too.
Health is about learning how to listen to, connect to and care for your body and your mental and emotional health (not about what you weigh or how hard you exercise)
With practice, self-compassion, patience, and support, you can rediscover your body’s own innate wisdom, so you can start making peace with food, building a caring relationship with your body, and connecting with yourself as a whole person.
If you are ready to start (or continue) your eating disorder recovery with me, please call 4944 7478 to arrange an initial telephone consultation. In this 10 minute consultation, we can ensure that I am the ‘good fit’ for your needs and how I can best support you in your recovery.