Emotional & Binge Eating Counselling

Counselling for emotional eating involves specialised techniques aimed at helping individuals understand the root of their emotional or binge eating, in order to change their relationship with food and their emotions. Here’s what you can expect from counselling for trauma with me:

I work with the physical aspect of food and its impact on an individual’s mood, as well as working with cravings and an addiction E.g. Sugar.

Simultaneously, we explore what the emotional or binge eating is signalling. Food can be a way to cope with difficult emotions so we need to find new ways to manage these emotions without using food. We look at Triggers for eating whether these are emotional, or physical like seeing a food in an advert.

I offer techniques from many modalities, such as Transactional Analysis, Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, as well as somatic/body approaches like EFT (tapping) to help clients to ground and manage distressing emotions.

It is all about empowering individuals to develop a new relationship with food. Making the shift from food being a way to soothe or reward, to food being a pleasant fuel. In this way food is no longer emotionally charged or a form of self-medication.