This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
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 offer
We deliver counselling and psychotherapy, health and wellbeing groups, education, and support to individuals, friends, families and carers, free of charge and by self-referral. Our services include:
Free one-to-one counselling
Education and training for professionals to aid early identification and prevention
Wellbeing workshops for individuals and friends and family
We offer one-to-one counselling to those over 16 with mild to moderate eating distress, who have a BMI (Body Mass Index) of 17.5 and above.
We offer a one-off counselling sessions to friends and family looking after those with eating distress; we also facilitate the Maudsley Model training course which is free to carers of those struggling with eating distress.
We also facilitate health and wellbeing sessions which cover topics such as self-esteem, negative thoughts, better sleep and coping with Christmas.
We can provide talks and training on eating disorders to your organisation, school, university, doctor's surgery etc. Please contact us for further information.
Training, qualifications & experience
All our counsellors are qualified, hold membership with the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and have experience of working with those with eating distress.
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
Up to £45.00
Free initial online session
Additional information
As a registered charity we receive funding to offer free counselling.
We also have a small paid-for service, please contact us for further information.
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Paid for service available one evening per week from 5 pm, subject to availability
Further information
We are based in central Newcastle just a few minutes’ walk from St James' Park and Haymarket metro station.
