About us
Our mission and vision
We exist because every individual affected by eating distress deserves specialist support, hope, and to know that recovery is possible.
Our vision is to offer every individual impacted by eating distress in the North East hope, understanding and a route to recovery.
Who we are
We are the only specialist eating distress charity in the North East and aim to be a centre of excellence for eating distress support. We offer counselling, support, information, help and hope to anyone in the North East affected by eating distress.
This support is offered to people who are experiencing eating distress with or without a medical diagnosis.
Our private counselling service is available for clients who want open ended counselling so you can work with your counsellor for as long as you need.
Training, qualifications & experience
All our counsellors are fully qualified, registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) or equivalent, and either accredited or working towards accreditation.
They are also experienced in working with people who have eating distress and disorders, and undertake regular continual professional development in specialisms including working with neurodivergent clients, working with LGBTQ+ clients, gender issues, children and young people, working with family members, anticipatory grief and bereavement and more.
Our counselling team have different approaches as their base core model. These include person-centred, and transactional analysis. All our counsellors work integratively – we use our base model and other counselling theories we have trained in to complement our work and adapt our interventions for each individual client. Some of the other theories we use include creative methods, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and attachment theory.
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.
Areas of counselling we deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£55.00 per session
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Further information
We are based in central Newcastle just a few minutes’ walk from St James' Park and Haymarket metro station. We can work with people across the North East in our private counselling service.
