About me
Do you feel like food has become complicated?
Perhaps you find yourself eating when you are not physically hungry, turning to food for comfort, feeling guilty after eating, struggling with constant thoughts about food, or feeling stuck in patterns you cannot seem to understand.
Many people who struggle with emotional eating already know what they “should” be doing around food. The difficulty is often not a lack of knowledge, discipline or willpower. Emotional eating is usually connected to emotions, experiences, coping strategies and the way we see ourselves.
I specialise in emotional eating counselling, supporting adults who want to understand their relationship with food. This may include overeating, comfort eating, food guilt, food shame, or feeling like you have lost control around food.
My own relationship with food has been complicated, and I understand how exhausting it can feel when you want things to change but still feel stuck in patterns that are difficult to break. Over time, my relationship with food has evolved, but I don’t believe this is about reaching a point where food no longer feels complicated. It is about developing a more compassionate understanding of ourselves and our relationship with food.
Alongside my lived experience, I bring professional training and psychological knowledge as an integrative counsellor, with a first-class BSc (Hons) Psychology degree and a Diploma in Integrative Counselling. I am also the author of Just Call Me Fat: Jumping Off The Food Noise Merry-Go-Round, sharing my experiences of food, body image, food noise and emotional eating.
My approach is about understanding what sits beneath your eating patterns, rather than focusing only on the food itself. Counselling offers space to explore the thoughts, feelings and experiences that may be influencing your relationship with food, without judgement, shame or pressure to change overnight.
Over time, this may mean food taking up less space in your mind, feeling less like life is on pause until you feel “good enough”, and beginning to feel more comfortable being present in your own life without constant guilt, shame or self-criticism.
I offer online counselling for adults across the UK.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a qualified, BACP Registered Counsellor (MBACP) with a first-class BSc (Hons) in Psychology and a Diploma in Counselling. I work as an integrative counsellor, drawing from different therapeutic approaches to provide support tailored to each person’s individual experiences and needs.
I have experience working with adults in private practice, alongside previous experience supporting children and adults through Open Door (Saffron Walden) and providing bereavement support with Cruse Bereavement Support.
My specialist interest is emotional eating and helping people understand their relationship with food. I am particularly interested in the emotional, psychological and life experiences that can sit beneath eating patterns, including food guilt, shame, overeating and feeling stuck around food.
I am also the author of Just Call Me Fat: Jumping Off The Food Noise Merry-Go-Round, which explores my own experiences of emotional eating, food noise, body image and the psychological impact of living with a complicated relationship with food.
I attend regular supervision and continue my professional development to ensure my work remains ethical, reflective and informed. I practise in accordance with the BACP Ethical Framework and am committed to providing a thoughtful, safe and supportive counselling experience.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Emotional eating and your relationship with food
I specialise in supporting adults who struggle with emotional eating, overeating, food guilt, shame and feeling stuck in difficult patterns around food. I help people explore the thoughts, emotions and experiences that influence their relationship with food, moving away from self-blame and towards greater understanding and compassion.
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
If you are considering counselling, I offer a free 15-minute initial consultation where we can talk about what brings you here, answer any questions you may have, and explore whether working together feels like the right fit.
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