About me
If you're here, it might be because food, eating, or how you feel in your body has started to feel harder than it used to. You might not be sure whether it's "bad enough" to seek help - it doesn't have to be. It doesn't need to be a certain severity, and you don't need a formal diagnosis to reach out.
If any of this feels familiar, please get in touch to see if I can help:
- Feeling like eating is complicated, stressful, or something you think about a lot
- Worrying a lot about what you eat, your weight, or how your body looks
- Finding yourself eating quickly, secretly, or past the point of feeling comfortable
- Eating in ways that feel difficult to control, or avoiding food in ways that affect your life
- Feeling guilt, shame, anxiety, or panic around meals
- Noticing that food and body image thoughts get in the way of other things
- Eating to cope with stress or difficult feelings (sometimes called emotional eating)
- Being trapped in cycles that feel out of your control
- Using behaviours like vomiting, laxatives, excessive exercise, or fasting after eating
I also work with disordered eating in all its forms, including diagnosed conditions such as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, and OSFED - as well as orthorexia, a fixation on healthy eating that can lead to anxiety, rigid food rules, and a reduced quality of life.
How I can help
I don't believe one approach works for everyone. My training spans several evidence-based methods, and I draw on these flexibly depending on what you need. This includes CBT-E - the specialist approach recommended as first-line treatment in NHS guidelines - as well as Compassion-Focused Therapy for eating disorders (CFT-E), and CBT-AR, for the treatment of ARFID.
If you've been through a CBT pathway before and felt it didn't quite fit, that's okay. Part of my job is finding what actually works for you.
I also work with
Alongside eating disorder work, I support people with
- Perfectionism - the pressure of always pushing yourself, but never feeling like it's enough
- Self-criticism
- Health anxiety
My goal is to work together to understand where these patterns come from and what keeps them going, so they start to have less hold over how you live.
Get in touch
I see clients online across Greater Manchester and the North West, with face-to-face sessions available from my practice in Sale, South Manchester. If any of this resonates, I'd be glad to hear from you - you're welcome to get in touch using the contact details on this profile to ask a question or arrange an initial conversation.
Training, qualifications & experience
I’m a specialist eating disorder therapist with experience across national charities, the NHS, and, most recently, as Psychological Services Lead at a private eating disorder daycare clinic.
- Psychological Services Lead at a private eating disorders daycare clinic
- MSc Psychology
- Dip. Couns.
- Specialist eating disorders training
- CBT-E
- CFT-E
- Ongoing NHS and private clinical experience
- Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) National Training Programme
- Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders
- Autism and Eating Disorders
- Autism Bedfordshire
- Early Intervention for Eating Disorders
- Kings College London
- Regular ongoing training in safeguarding and in working with vulnerable adults
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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£100.00 per session
Additional information
Ongoing sessions are £110 each, or £100 per session if you book a block of four.
When I work
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I review my schedule regularly - if these times don't work for you, feel free to get in touch and I'll let you know when something more suitable becomes free.
Further information
Therapy is weekly or fortnightly, depending on what works for you and for what fits into your life.
Sessions are for 50 minutes per session, and if you require a longer session time, then we can build this into your plan.
Contact me to check current availability - a waiting list is available when fully booked.
