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Individual and Family Support Services
Helen provides integrated therapeutic and nutrition support for individuals experiencing eating disorders, ARFID, food anxiety, and complex eating challenges. Her work addresses both eating behaviours and the psychological factors that sustain them — moving beyond symptom management toward meaningful, lasting change.
Sessions combine counselling with evidence-informed nutrition care, supporting behaviour change, emotional regulation, and recovery in everyday life. Treatment is thoughtful, structured, and responsive to each individual’s needs. Helen works closely with clients and families, providing steady clinical guidance while collaborating with psychologists, GPs, and other treating professionals where appropriate. Her approach is calm, attuned, and clinically grounded — helping individuals feel supported while building the capacity for change.
Eating Disorders
Eating disorders affect not only the individual, but the entire family system — often shaping daily life, relationships, and emotional wellbeing.
Helen provides specialised, integrated treatment for adolescents and young adults experiencing anorexia nervosa, ARFID, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, orthorexia, and restrictive or complex eating presentations. She is particularly experienced in supporting neurodivergent individuals, recognising the significant role sensory processing, anxiety, predictability needs, and cognitive style can play in shaping eating behaviours. Treatment is structured, psychologically informed, and responsive to the needs of both the individual and their family — supporting meaningful progress while maintaining emotional safety. Many families seek Helen’s support when eating has become increasingly restrictive, distressing, or difficult to shift, or when previous approaches have not been enough.
Anxiety & Emotional Wellbeing
Anxiety frequently sits alongside eating disorders and restrictive eating — shaping appetite, food avoidance, rigidity, and emotional overwhelm.
Helen supports young people experiencing anxiety within the context of eating and recovery, recognising the powerful role the nervous system plays in shaping behaviour around food.
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Her approach is calm, structured, and psychologically informed, helping individuals build emotional capacity while supporting meaningful behavioural change. Care is always tailored to the individual, with consideration given to neurodivergence, sensory sensitivities, and developmental needs where relevant.
Family Support in Eating Disorder Recovery
Eating disorders place enormous strain on families, often creating uncertainty around how best to support a young person while maintaining connection at home.
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Helen works closely with parents and caregivers, providing clear, practical guidance that brings structure to mealtimes, reduces conflict, and supports recovery in everyday life. Rather than leaving families to navigate this alone, she helps parents understand the eating disorder, respond with confidence, and take an active, supported role in treatment. Family involvement is thoughtfully integrated into care, strengthening communication while creating a more secure environment for change. Many parents seek this support when they feel overwhelmed, unsure what is helpful, or concerned that patterns at home are becoming difficult to shift.
Counselling for Children and Adolescents
Helen supports children and adolescents experiencing emotional distress that may be impacting their relationship with food, their well-being, or daily functioning.
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Many young people present with overlapping challenges — including anxiety, emotional overwhelm, neurodivergence, and difficulties with regulation — all of which can influence eating patterns and recovery. Her approach is developmentally attuned, calm, and structured, helping young people feel understood while building the emotional capacity needed for change.
Where appropriate, parents are closely supported to strengthen connection, reduce conflict, and create a more secure environment for recovery.
Trauma Informed Eating Disorder Care
For some individuals, eating disorders develop alongside difficult or overwhelming life experiences. These experiences can shape the nervous system, emotional regulation, and a person’s sense of safety — all of which may influence patterns of eating.
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Helen provides trauma-informed care within eating disorder treatment, recognising the importance of emotional safety, predictability, and pacing in the recovery process. Rather than viewing eating behaviours in isolation, her work considers the broader psychological context — supporting individuals to build alternative ways of coping while gently moving toward greater flexibility with food. Treatment remains grounded in structure and clinical guidance, ensuring that emotional support and behavioural change progress together.
Individual Eating Disorder Treatment
Helen provides specialised individual treatment for adolescents and young adults experiencing eating disorders, ARFID, and complex relationships with food.
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Her work integrates therapeutic and nutrition care, addressing both behavioural patterns and the psychological factors that sustain them.
Support is particularly valuable when eating has become restrictive, distressing, emotionally charged, or difficult to shift — especially where anxiety, neurodivergence, or body image concerns intersect with recovery.
Treatment is structured, collaborative, and responsive to each individual, with the goal of supporting steady, meaningful progress over time.
Body Image & Eating Disorders
Body image concerns are often deeply intertwined with eating disorders, shaping thoughts, behaviours, and a young person’s relationship with food.
Helen supports adolescents experiencing body dissatisfaction within the broader context of emotional development and recovery, recognising that these struggles rarely exist in isolation.
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Her approach moves beyond reassurance, helping young people develop greater psychological flexibility while reducing the hold appearance concerns can have over daily life. Work is thoughtful and developmentally attuned, supporting both the individual and their family as confidence and self-trust begin to strengthen.
Structured Meal Support
Meal structure plays a central role in eating disorder recovery. Thoughtfully designed meal and snack plans help reduce decision-making, interrupt eating disorder patterns, and support nutritional rehabilitation.
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Helen develops individualised meal guidance that reflects each person’s clinical needs, stage of recovery, and capacity for change — recognising that structure often creates the safety required for progress.
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This work extends beyond food alone. Support focuses on gradually increasing flexibility, reducing rigidity, challenging avoidance, and helping eating become more consistent and less emotionally charged over time. Where appropriate, families are supported to implement structure at home, creating a more predictable and contained recovery environment. Change is approached steadily and collaboratively, with the understanding that lasting progress is built through consistency rather than urgency.
Family Support in Eating Disorder Recovery
Family involvement plays a central role in supporting children and adolescents through eating disorder recovery, particularly in the treatment of ARFID, anorexia nervosa, and bulimia nervosa.
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Helen provides structured, family-based care that helps parents take a confident and active role in supporting change, while strengthening connection within the home.
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Rather than leaving families to navigate this alone, treatment offers clear clinical guidance around mealtimes, communication, and responding to eating disorder behaviours.
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This work is especially valuable when eating has begun to dominate family life, creating stress, uncertainty, or conflict.
Support remains grounded in evidence-based approaches while thoughtfully adapting to each family’s needs.