Specialist nutritional support for teenagers and adults with eating disorders and disordered eating
Living with an eating disorder can affect far more than what or how much you eat. Food can take up an enormous amount of mental space, while your energy, mood, concentration, digestion, relationships and physical health may all be affected too.
You may have a formal diagnosis, be in recovery, or simply know that your eating and relationship with food have become increasingly difficult to manage.
We provide specialist, personalised nutritional support, working alongside your wider healthcare or therapeutic team where appropriate.
What can an eating disorder feel like?
Eating disorders can look very different from one person to another. You don't need to look a certain way, be a particular weight or fit neatly into a diagnosis for your difficulties with food and eating to deserve support.
You might experience:
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Restricting how much or what you allow yourself to eat
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Strong rules or rituals around food
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Fear or anxiety around particular foods or eating situations
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Binge eating or feeling out of control around food
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Purging or other compensatory behaviours
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Exercising compulsively or feeling you need to “earn” food
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Preoccupation with food, weight, calories or body shape
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Fear of gaining weight
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Avoiding eating with other people
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Guilt, shame or distress after eating
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Difficulty recognising or trusting hunger and fullness
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Low energy, brain fog or difficulty concentrating
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Digestive symptoms
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Weight loss, low body weight or significant changes in weight
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Food and eating taking up an increasing amount of your thoughts and everyday life
Some people have lived with these difficulties for many years; for others, they develop more recently. You may also have periods when things feel easier before old patterns begin to return.
Eating disorders we support
Anorexia nervosa
Nutritional support for restrictive eating, inadequate nutrition and weight restoration where needed, alongside appropriate medical and psychological care.
Bulimia nervosa
Support with establishing more consistent nutrition and understanding eating patterns alongside the wider factors affecting your physical and emotional health.
Binge-eating disorder
Specialist nutritional support to help establish more regular, adequate eating and explore the patterns and circumstances surrounding binge eating without introducing further restriction or dieting.
OSFED & disordered eating
You don't need to fit neatly into one diagnosis. We also support people whose eating is restrictive, chaotic or distressing even when their difficulties don't meet the criteria for a specific eating disorder.
Eating disorder recovery is about more than food alone
As eating becomes more consistent, other health concerns often begin to emerge, or become easier to investigate. Our functional medicine approach allows us to look at these alongside your eating disorder recovery, always in the context of your wider medical care.
We may support clients with:
Digestive health after an eating disorder
Digestive symptoms are common during and after recovery and can make eating feel even more difficult. We regularly support clients with bloating, reflux, constipation, diarrhoea, nausea and symptoms that may need further investigation, including SIBO where clinically appropriate.
Nutritional deficiencies & physical health
Eating disorders can affect nutrient status, gut health, hormones, bone health and energy. Where appropriate, we may recommend blood tests or functional testing to help guide nutritional support and monitor recovery.
Low body weight & weight restoration
Recovery isn't simply about increasing calories.
We support safe, gradual weight restoration where needed while addressing the physical symptoms, digestive changes and nutritional challenges that can accompany it.
Looking at the wider health picture
Some clients come to us with an eating disorder alongside PCOS, chronic digestive conditions, hypermobility, anxiety or other long-term health concerns. We consider these as part of your individual health picture rather than treating them in isolation.
How we can support you
Understand your individual needs
We'll take time to understand your eating history, current eating patterns, physical and emotional health, medical history and any other health concerns that may be relevant.
Support your nutrition
Our priorities will depend on your individual circumstances. This may include establishing more consistent and adequate nutrition, increasing food variety, supporting weight restoration where needed and addressing nutritional deficiencies.
Work together regularly
Eating disorder recovery needs consistent support. We work with eating disorder clients for a minimum of 12 weeks, usually meeting weekly, so that we can review how things are going and adapt your nutritional support as your needs change.
Work alongside your wider care team
Eating disorders often need multidisciplinary support. With your consent, we're happy to work alongside your GP, therapist, psychiatrist, CAMHS or other healthcare professionals involved in your care.
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