The Role of Nutrition Support in Eating Disorder Recovery
If you're navigating eating disorder recovery, you may already know that healing requires more than willpower or good intentions - and often more than therapy or GP monitoring alone.
Eating disorders are complex conditions that affect both mind and body. While they may not ultimately be about food, making peace with food is an essential part of recovery. And that’s exactly where nutritional support comes in.
As a Nutrition Practitioner specialising in disordered eating, my role is to support you in rebuilding a nourishing, peaceful, trusting relationship with food and your body - safely and sustainably.
Why nutritional care is a vital part of THE healing journey
It’s common to believe that seeing a GP and a therapist or counsellor will cover all the support you need - and of course, both play essential roles. Your GP monitors your physical health, tracks medical risk, and ensures you’re medically safe. Your therapist helps you work through the emotional patterns, unhelpful behaviours, and the psychological factors that keep the eating disorder going.
However, neither are trained to carry out nutritional assessments or to work in depth with the nutritional complexities and day-to-day eating-related behavioural challenges that are part of recovery.
This is where my role comes in. As a nutrition practitioner with specialist training in eating disorders, I help bridge the gap between physical restoration and behavioural change - working with you to shape eating patterns that feel realistic, supportive, and sustainable. It’s not about handing you a rigid plan, but about exploring together what to eat, and also the how, when, and why.
Working in private practice, I support people who are medically stable but still facing the nutritional, emotional, and behavioural challenges of eating disorder recovery or disordered eating. In more acute cases, a registered dietitian within a medical team would take the lead on intensive refeeding and inpatient protocols. My role is to help you build lasting changes and confidence with food as part of your ongoing recovery.
Whether you are stepping down from inpatient care, seeking early intervention, or navigating recovery privately, nutrition support is a core pillar of healing - helping you rebuild balance with both food and health, and find a sustainable, flexible approach to eating.
My Role in Eating Disorder Recovery: What Nutrition Support Helps You Achieve
I provide tailored, one-to-one support that meets my clients where they are on their journey with food, and moves at a pace that feels safe for them.
While every client is different, here’s a high-level view of what we might be working on together:
Restore nutritional balance
Through personalised nourishment, we support your body’s physical resilience, alongside your mood and cognition. Tailored nutrition support also helps manage or prevent some of the physical complications that can arise with disordered eating - such as nutrient deficiencies, hormonal disruption, digestive symptoms, and low energy availability.
Establish a steady, supportive eating pattern
I help you establish regular, balanced meals and snacks to bring rhythm and calm back to your eating. A supportive, predictable but flexible structure reduces anxiety and chaos around food, while supporting steady blood sugar and emotional stability.
Unpick food fears and challenge unhelpful beliefs
We work to dismantle restrictive rules and food fears, neutralise ‘good’ vs. ‘bad’ food thinking, and gently reintroduce avoided foods - helping you build flexibility, confidence, and freedom in your eating.
Provide psychoeducation around diet mentality, weight stigma, and body image
I support you in recognising unhelpful beliefs about weight, shape, and worth, and offer tools to develop a more compassionate, realistic, and empowered relationship with your body.
Reconnect you with your body’s internal cues
Over time, I help you rebuild body trust - learning to listen to hunger, fullness, and satisfaction signals, and to respond to your body’s needs with care rather than control.Create sustainable habits for long-term wellbeing
Ultimately, the goal is to help you develop a relationship with food and your body that feels peaceful, nourishing, trusting, grounded, and flexible - one that supports your wellbeing, not driven by fear, guilt, or shame.
RecoverY is a Team Effort
A collaborative, team-based approach offers the best chance of a full and supported recovery - physically, emotionally, and mentally.
As part of your care team, I will work alongside:
Your GP or medical doctor - to monitor physical health stability and risk
A mental health practitioner - to explore the deeper emotional roots and patterns
Any other relevant practitioners involved in your care - to ensure joined-up care and communication)
MY CONCLUSIONS
If you’re considering nutritional support for disordered eating, or eating disorder recovery, know this: you don’t have to do this alone.
Working with someone who understands both the science and the psychology of eating can make all the difference - helping you feel safe, supported, and empowered as you take steps toward healing.
Take a nourishing step forward today
Are worries about food, weight, or overeating draining your time, energy, and peace of mind? Are you struggling with low mood, persistent food cravings, poor gut health or digestive challenges?
Old mindsets and habits can be hard to shift on your own. If you are looking to find peace with food and your body, and eat with more confidence and ease, I can help you.
Please check out my private programmes here, or book an exploratory chat to find out more.
