Integrated nutrition & counselling support
for complex eating challenges


​Combining clinical expertise with compassionate care for lasting change! Helen Dean specialises in the following areas:
Complex Feeding & Restrictive Eating in Children and Adolescents
Helen supports children and adolescents experiencing restrictive eating, food anxiety, ARFID, and feeding challenges — particularly where neurodivergence is present.
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Her work recognises the significant role sensory differences, predictability needs, anxiety, and emotional regulation can play in shaping a young person’s relationship with food.
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Treatment is structured, developmentally attuned, and psychologically informed, helping families move beyond mealtime distress toward greater flexibility and confidence with eating.
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Support is especially valuable when eating has become entrenched, stressful, or difficult to shift.
Body Image in Eating Disorder Recovery
Body image concerns are often deeply intertwined with eating disorders, shaping thoughts, behaviours, and a young person’s relationship with food.
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Helen supports individuals to gently challenge appearance-driven beliefs while developing greater psychological flexibility and self-trust.
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This work moves beyond reassurance, addressing the underlying emotional and cognitive patterns that maintain distress.
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Care is thoughtful, developmentally attuned, and integrated within broader eating disorder treatment — recognising that meaningful change rarely occurs when body image is addressed in isolation.
Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
Helen supports individuals experiencing ARFID by gently addressing food-related fear, avoidance, and the psychological factors that shape restrictive eating.
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Treatment focuses on building safety with food, expanding variety, and supporting nutritional stability while remaining responsive to each person’s emotional capacity for change.
ARFID can significantly impact health, social participation, and family life — often creating anxiety around meals and limiting everyday experiences.
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Helen provides structured, psychologically informed care that helps reduce these challenges while guiding individuals toward greater flexibility and confidence with eating.
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When Anxiety or Low Mood Impacts Eating
Anxiety and low mood commonly sit alongside eating disorders, shaping appetite, motivation, and a person’s capacity for change.
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Helen provides psychologically informed care that supports emotional stability while guiding recovery — recognising that progress with eating is rarely possible when distress remains unaddressed.
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Support is integrated within treatment rather than offered in isolation, ensuring that emotional wellbeing and behavioural change move forward together.
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Care is particularly valuable when anxiety, withdrawal, or low mood are reinforcing restrictive or avoidant patterns around food.
