NUTRITIONAL COUNSELLING
Holistic nutrition support for disordered eating and eating disorder recovery
Whether you are navigating an eating disorder or complex disordered eating, I offer personalised, recovery-focussed nutrition support tailored to your needs and paced to suit your journey.
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”Working with Sarah, I felt safe, listened too, understood & I did not feel judged. I was able to be open when speaking about my lived experiences. Being given the opportunity to consider myself as “neutral” rather than always striving for perfection or in the depths of self sabotage has been transformative.””
OVERVIEW
Eating disorders and disordered eating can feel exhausting, isolating and all-consuming. If your relationship with food or your body is affecting your health, wellbeing or holding you back from living your life fully, you deserve support - and you don’t have to figure things out alone.
I work with individuals experiencing a wide range of eating challenges including restrictive, chaotic or emotionally driven patterns. This may include:
Binge eating disorder
Over-reliance on emotional eating
Orthorexia (excessive preoccupation with eating healthy food)
Anorexia nervosa (non-acute cases)
Bulimia nervosa
Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
Whether or not you have a formal diagnosis, nutritional counselling offers a non-judgemental, collaborative space to support your recovery, step by step. I also work with individuals who are in recovery following more formal treatment, helping them continue to build stability and self-trust around food.
If you are also managing other mental or physical health concerns, we will take these into account with due care and sensitivity, supporting your health and wellbeing as a whole.
HOW IT WORKS
Nutritional counselling aims to support you in creating a safe, sustainable foundation of nourishment and, over-time, rebuilding trust around food.
I’m trained to carry out nutritional assessments and to support both the physiological and behavioural aspects of disordered eating and recovery. This includes helping you stabilise your eating, improve energy and digestive health, and navigate the emotional and practical challenges that come with changing long-held food patterns.
My approach is person-centred and integrative, combining Nutritional Therapy with principles from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Intuitive Eating and mindfulness.
Our work will go beyond the surface of what you eat - we will explore how you think, feel and relate to food and your body, and develop personalised strategies that feel realistic, compassionate and sustainable.
You won’t be given a rigid food plan. Instead, we’ll co-create a way of eating that supports your stability and healing - with enough structure to foster safety and consistency, and enough flexibility to start loosening food rules and start moving towards a more trusting, responsive relationship with food. Any guidance I offer will always be tailored to your goals and what feels manageable for you.
Together, we’ll work to:
Support physical nourishment and work towards nutritional balance over time
Reduce distress around food and eating
Release unhelpful beliefs and behaviours
Rebuild a more flexible, trusting relationship with food and your body
Where needed, I’m also able to liaise with your GP, therapist or mental health practitioner as part of a collaborative care approach.
What sessions may include
Each weekly one-to-one session is shaped around your needs and may include:
Identifying and addressing nutritional imbalances
Guidance on planning and structuring meals
Education about food groups and nutrients
Unpicking food fears and challenging food rules
Debunking nutrition myths and diet culture messages
Personalised food and meal suggestions
Psychoeducation around food, body image, and eating behaviours
Exploring appetite, fullness and different types of hunger
Mindful eating practices
Developing approaches to respond to binge eating
Self-care strategies and nervous system support
Reflecting on insights, practices or reading between sessions
You will receive a follow-up summary after each session and have access to unlimited weekday messaging support for continuity and reassurance.
Ongoing support
This is a personalised, open-ended service offered on a rolling monthly basis so you can receive consistent support for as long as you need it.
Recovery isn’t linear and there is no fixed timeframe or expectation for how long things should take. My aim is to provide a steady, responsive space to help you move at your own pace towards nourishment, resilience and peace with food and your body.
Take a nourishing step forward today
Looking for steady, personalised nutrition support to help you move towards nourishment, vitality and peace at your own pace?
Please reach out to book a complimentary enquiry call together by phone or video link - so we can discuss your individual needs and I can tell you more about the support available:
FAQ’s
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If you have any degree of distress with your relationship with food or your body image, you deserve support - and I can help.
Many people do not get support through fear that they are not ‘sick enough’, when in fact no concern is too small for early intervention.
In cases where a person’s health is at acute risk or body weight is below a certain threshold that I can safely support within my practice, a registered dietitian within a medical team would be required to take the lead on intensive refeeding and inpatient protocols to support medical stabilisation and nutritional rehabilitation. Once you are home and stable, I can step in to help you build lasting changes and confidence with food as part of your ongoing recovery.
In summary, whether you are stepping down from inpatient care, seeking early intervention or navigating recovery privately, nutritional counselling is available and can be a transformational part of your healing.
If you have any doubts or questions, or would benefit from a Zoom video call first, please do contact me for a no-obligation friendly chatand we talk things through.
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My professional background includes:
Diploma in Nutritional Therapy
Nutritional Therapy for Eating Disorders: Advanced Practitioner Programme
Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor
Completed various health coaching trainings drawing on NLP, CBT and mindfulness and extensive trainings in ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Training)
Psychological Approaches to Obesity (National Centre for Eating Disorders)
Certified Food & Spirit™ practitioner
Associate member of Patrick Holford's Zest4Life
Member of the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (mBANT)
Member of the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (mCNHC).
You can find full details here
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Absolutely. My approach is flexible and both tailored and paced to individual needs, making it well-suited for those who experience sensory sensitivities, executive function challenges or a different way of processing information around food and eating.
I understand that traditional advice often doesn’t work for everyone and I create a non-judgmental space where we can explore strategies that feel manageable and empowering for you.
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I understand why you might be unsure. Online Nutritional Counselling is a relatively new thing.
Rest assured that the support you will receive is no different to what I would provide in a clinic setting. Plus, online support has the added bonus of being super convenient for you.
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Nutritional Counselling typically includes weekly one-to-one online sessions (45-minutes) and weekday messaging support.
This is £425/month and is offered on a monthly rolling basis - which means you can pause or stop whenever you're ready, or we can adjust the frequency of sessions as we progress.Our initial session together is upto 2-hours to allow space to get to know more about your current situation and history.