Psychology Support for Food, Body & Weight
Changing your relationship with food or your body is rarely just about changing your weight or your eating habits.
Our eating, and how we feel about our bodies, can be influenced by our emotions, thoughts and experiences over many years. Treatments such as GLP-1 medications can change appetite significantly, but they do not necessarily change all of these underlying patterns.
As a Chartered Psychologist specialising in obesity, eating behaviour and weight management, I provide psychological support to help you understand these patterns and make changes that are sustainable in everyday life.
Support With Food & Disordered Eating
You might want support if you experience emotional eating, binge eating, overeating, loss of control around food, persistent cravings, rigid food rules, guilt after eating, or simply feel that food takes up far more mental space than you would like.
These difficulties can also overlap with body image concerns — including feeling preoccupied with your weight or appearance, avoiding things because of how you feel about your body, or feeling that your body is holding you back from the life you want.
We can work together to understand what is driving these patterns, develop a healthier and more flexible relationship with food and your body, and challenge the psychological barriers that may be holding you back.
I am trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), alongside other approaches from health psychology and behaviour change, allowing us to personalise support to your needs.
Psychological Support During GLP-1 Treatment
GLP-1 medications can make an enormous difference to appetite and weight, but there can still be important psychological changes to navigate.
Support may include adjusting to a different relationship with hunger and food, emotional eating, building new habits while appetite is reduced, body image, managing expectations, coping with weight-loss plateaus or fear of weight regain, and preparing for longer-term weight maintenance.
Whether you need support with a particular difficulty or would benefit from longer-term psychological care, the aim is to help you improve not only your relationship with food, weight and your body, but your overall quality of life.