About me
Eating Disorder Psychologist Offering UK-Wide Online Therapy
I’m a HCPC-registered Counselling Psychologist specialising in the treatment of eating disorders as well as depression, generalised anxiety, and relationship difficulties. I work with both adolescents and adults, providing online therapy across the UK.
I have extensive experience supporting individuals with:
- Eating disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating
- Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
- Depression and generalised anxiety disorders
- Body image and appearance-related concerns
- Low self-esteem and perfectionism
Relationship difficulties impacted by mental health or life stressor
With a clinical background in both the NHS and private practice, I offer evidence-based treatment approaches such as CBT-E (enhanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for eating disorders), Compassion-Focused Therapy, Schema Therapy, and relational, psychodynamic, and systemic approaches. My style is collaborative, compassionate, and grounded in helping you make meaningful and sustainable changes.
Supporting Parents and Caregivers
I work closely with parents and caregivers of young people struggling with Anorexia Nervosa or other eating disorders. Supporting a loved one with an eating disorder can be confusing, exhausting, and emotionally distressing. I offer specialist guidance to help you:
- Understand the psychological function of the eating disorder
- Provide structured and emotionally attuned meal support
- Learn tools to manage your own stress, worry, and guilt
- Improve communication and reduce family conflict.
These sessions can be a lifeline for families—offering both emotional containment and practical strategies as you support your child’s recovery.
Couples Therapy: Supporting Relationships and Connection
I offer couples therapy for partners facing challenges in their relationship, whether or not eating disorders are involved. Relationship difficulties can arise from many sources—communication breakdowns, stress, life transitions, intimacy concerns, or unresolved conflict.
In couples therapy, I work with both partners to:
- Improve communication and deepen emotional understanding
- Address patterns of conflict and rebuild trust
- Navigate life changes or emotional challenges together
- Foster intimacy and strengthen connection
- When eating disorders are part of the picture, couples therapy also supports partners to become a source of recovery and healing. But my couples work equally supports general relationship growth and resilience.
Whether you’re seeking therapy for yourself, your child, or your relationship, I provide a warm, inclusive, and non-judgemental online therapeutic space where growth and healing can begin.
Training, qualifications & experience
Experience
- Rhodes Wood Hospital, Elysium Healthcare - a specialist Inpatient Eating Disorder service for children and young people aged 8 up to 18 years.
- Private Practice, Counselling Psychologist - working with eating disorders, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, depression, anxiety, low-self-esteem, relationship difficulties and trauma. I provide individual therapy using evidence-based therapies including CBT, CFT, CBT-E and MANTRA.
- The Nightingale Hospital, Eating Disorder Unit, Counselling Psychologist, October 2020- 2022
- The London Centre for Eating Disorders and Body Image, Counselling Psychologist
NHS (North Middlesex University Hospital) working with staff responding to COVID19, Counselling Psychologist - NHS (SLaM) IPPT services secondary care working with personality disorders, 2017-2020
- NHS (ELFT) Complex PTSD service, secondary care
- Weight Matters, private practice
Qualifications
- Doctorate in Counselling Psychology, Regents University, London, 2016 – 2020
- MSc Psychology - High Distinction, Regents University London, 2015 –2016
- Certificate in Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regents University London, 2014 –2015
- BA Hons Social Policy and Administration, Nottingham University, 2008 - 2011
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Deciding who to work with is not a decision to take lightly, as such to help you decide whether you feel I am the right fit for you I offer an initial free 15-minute phone consultation to discuss any of your questions. If you feel ready to continue we will set up an initial session and discuss future sessions.
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Further information
Research and Publication on Body Dysmorphic Disorder
I am the author of the article “If Only He Were Blind”: Shame, Trauma, and Dissociation Among Women with Body Dysmorphic Disorder in Physically Intimate Relationships, co-authored with Isabel Henton, and published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being (2022).
In addition, I contributed a chapter to the book Trauma-Informed and Embodied Approaches to Body Dysmorphic Disorder, which explores innovative therapeutic strategies for supporting individuals with BDD.
My research and writing focus on the complex emotional impact of Body Dysmorphic Disorder, particularly around shame, trauma, and dissociation in intimate relationships. These insights inform my compassionate, evidence-based approach to therapy for those living with BDD.
If you’re seeking specialist therapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder or related concerns, I bring research-driven knowledge and clinical expertise to support your healing journey.
