Treatments we provide
At HER Clinic, we offer evidence-based, compassionate care for individuals and families navigating eating disorders. Our treatment approach is personalised, grounded in best-practice guidelines, and centred around helping you reconnect with your values, identity, and life beyond the eating disorder. Each person’s story is unique, and we tailor your treatment plan to your goals, strengths, and stage of recovery.
My approach is grounded in compassion-focused, trauma-informed, and neuro-aware principles to ensure treatment is both effective and individually attuned. Compassion-focused strategies help reduce shame, self-criticism, and threat-based thinking, supporting improved emotional regulation and engagement in treatment. A trauma-informed framework underpins all aspects of care, prioritising safety, predictability, and collaboration, and recognising the impact that past experiences may have on current eating disorder symptoms. I also incorporate a neuro-aware lens, considering factors such as ADHD, autism, sensory processing differences, and high sensitivity to tailor interventions, reduce overwhelm, and enhance treatment adherence. This integrative approach allows for evidence-based interventions to be delivered in a way that is responsive to each person’s psychological, developmental, and neurological needs.
Cognitive Based Therapy-Enhanced
Cognitive Based Therapy - Enhanced (CBT-E) is a structured, evidence-based treatment for eating disorders in adolescents and adults. It helps you understand what is maintaining your eating disorder and supports you to change those patterns in a practical, sustainable way. We adapt CBT-E to suit your pace, personality, and needs. Treatment typically involves weekly sessions and together we work on establishing regular eating, reducing restriction and other eating disorder behaviours, challenging unhelpful thoughts about weight, shape, and food, and gradually facing feared foods or situations. CBT-E also includes body image work, problem-solving, and relapse prevention to help you maintain progress and feel confident in your recovery long term.
Family Based Therapy
FBT is the gold-standard treatment for young people with eating disorders. FBT is a highly structured, evidence-based treatment that empowers parents and caregivers to take an active role in restoring their child’s nutrition and interrupting eating disorder behaviours. Treatment typically involves weekly sessions and begins with supporting families to take charge of meals, create predictable structure, and re-establish safe, adequate eating at home. As progress is made, responsibility for eating is gradually handed back to the young person in a developmentally appropriate way. FBT also focuses on restoring normal adolescent life, strengthening family communication, and reducing the eating disorder’s impact on identity, emotions, and relationships. Throughout the process, parents receive coaching, reassurance, and practical guidance, while the young person is supported with compassion, validation, and a clear path toward full recovery.
Exposure for food related fears
Exposure-based work, particularly used for ARFID, helps reduce fear around specific foods, textures, or eating experiences. It involves gradually and safely facing foods, textures, smells, or eating situations that trigger fear, discomfort, or avoidance. Together, we build a personalised hierarchy, from the least to most challenging foods and work through each step at a pace that feels manageable. This may include trying new foods, revisiting previously avoided foods, practicing different textures, addressing choking or vomiting fears, or building tolerance for sensory overwhelm. Throughout the process, we support you to manage anxiety, reduce rigid avoidance patterns, and develop confidence and flexibility around eating. The aim is to expand your food variety, increase nutritional adequacy, and help you feel calmer and more capable in daily eating experiences.
ADHD nutrition support
ADHD nutrition support focuses on helping individuals build consistent, nourishing eating patterns that work with their brain, not against it. Many people with ADHD experience irregular eating, sensory preferences, executive functioning challenges, or impulsive patterns that impact nutrition and wellbeing. We work together to create simple, sustainable routines—such as meal structure, easy food options, and planning strategies—that reduce decision fatigue and support stable energy, mood, and focus. Sessions may also explore appetite fluctuations, binge–restrict cycles, emotional regulation, and practical tools for organising food and meals. The goal is to make eating feel easier, calmer, and more supportive of your daily functioning
Specialist Supportive Clinical Management
Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM) is an evidence-based treatment originally developed for adults with Anorexia Nervosa. It combines practical nutrition counselling with supportive psychotherapy to help improve eating patterns, restore weight, and strengthen overall wellbeing. SSCM focuses on building a collaborative, non-judgemental relationship where you feel heard, validated, and encouraged. Treatment involves exploring what matters to you, identifying obstacles to nourishment, and developing realistic goals that support both physical and psychological recovery. Rather than using a rigid structure, SSCM is flexible and client-led, allowing you to move at a pace that feels safe while still prioritising behavioural change and nutritional rehabilitation.
Body Image support
Body image work focuses on understanding and gently reshaping the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that influence how you see and experience your body. Rather than aiming for instant body positivity, we prioritise building body neutrality and respect, helping you step away from constant self-judgment or appearance-based pressure. Sessions may explore body checking or avoidance, identity and values, the impact of social and cultural messages, and the emotional experiences linked to your body image. Through cognitive strategies, mindfulness, compassion-focused techniques, and practical behavioural tools, we support you to develop a more grounded, flexible, and accepting relationship with your body—one that allows you to engage more fully with your life beyond appearance.
