No, meal plan has its place, however, it's usually not useful for emotional eating.

Meal plan may recreate the rigidity and external control that often fuel rigidity and distress.

We will mostly focus on internal guidance - helping you recognise and respond to your body's hunger, fullness and emotional needs.

If you're currently very disconnected from these signals, we will use strategies, which may include structured meal time, to recover your internal cues.

That's really common, especially if you've been using food to cope for a long time. Part of our work together is building emotional awareness—learning to identify and name what you're feeling, even when it's uncomfortable or unclear. We start where you are, and it's okay if emotions feel fuzzy or overwhelming at first. This is a skill you can develop.

No. Restricting foods often backfires—it increases their appeal and can intensify emotional eating around those specific foods. Instead, we work on legalising all foods so nothing feels forbidden. Paradoxically, when you allow yourself to eat anything, food loses some of its emotional power. We'll also work on eating regularly and adequately so you're not setting yourself up for emotional eating through deprivation.

It depends. Some people find that dietetic support alone is enough—especially if emotional eating is more about patterns, hunger, and food relationships and lack of coping strategies. However, if your emotional eating is rooted from unprocessed trauma (which we will help you access), it's helpful to seek therapy support on top of dietetic support.

If you're already in therapy, dietetic support complements it well. If you're not and I think you'd benefit, I'll let you know and can help connect you with appropriate options.

Yes. I work with people of all body sizes, and my HAES-aligned approach means I don't pathologise or focus on changing your body size. BED affects people across the weight spectrum, and everyone deserves compassionate, weight-neutral care.

Generic lists of coping strategies (like "take a bath" or "go for a walk") often don't work because they're not tailored to the specific emotional need. We won't just throw random suggestions at you. Instead, we help you build emotional awareness, and what you really trying to achieve with eating emotionally (to distract? sooth? numb?), then we will build skills that address the emotional needs. That's how we can make sure it is sustainable after our work together

That's really common. Many people develop emotional eating as a way to cope with difficult experiences, neglect, or trauma—food might have been one of the few sources of comfort or control available. If emotional eating is sourced from early life, the chances are it has taken a toll on your relationship with food. Hence, dietetic support is really helpful.

With that said, while I'm trauma-informed and we can discuss this, deep trauma processing is typically therapy work. I can help you understand the connection and support you in developing new coping skills, and we can collaborate with a therapist if you're working with one (or I can help you find one if needed).

This fear is so understandable, especially given diet culture messaging are everywhere around us.

Here's what I know: restriction and the binge-restrict cycle often lead to weight cycling and preoccupation with food. When you stop restricting and start eating regularly and adequately, your body often stabilises. But I won't lie and promise a specific outcome—bodies are diverse, and weight isn't within our direct control. What is within our control is building a peaceful relationship with food, and that's worth pursuing regardless of what your body does.

If it's causing you distress, taking up mental space, or interfering with your life in any way, it's worth addressing. You don't have to meet criteria for an eating disorder or wait until it's "bad enough." If you're here reading this, you're probably ready for support—and you deserve it, regardless of how severe or mild it feels.