Eating Disorders Counselling

Dieting and exercise rarely address the underlying causes and conditions of eating disorders, no matter how mild or severe the problem. The evidence is in failed and repeated diets, exercise regimes and gym memberships. Being overweight, having an unhealthy relationship with food or being obese often has real emotional disturbances at its core.

Compulsive eating counselling and over eating counselling can really help with long term success in weight control and reduction. Call now for an appointment with a fully qualified University trained, Masters level psychotherapist. Eating disorder counselling can really work.

Binge eating counselling in Canterbury can help you gain a thorough understanding of the drives and causes of your problem, help you understand your condition and provide you with a planned solution.

If you want help with being overweight, call us and let us help you take the first steps out of your negative thinking cycle.

Binge Eating Symptoms

Don’t be embarrassed or afraid, call us right away if you want help with any of the below symptoms you may have. We will be understanding and compassionate to your need.

Do you:

• On a regular basis, eat too much in a short period of time (less than 2 hours).
• To comfort yourself or to ease stress, eat when you are not hungry.
• When sad, angry, lonely, or bored, eat too much, basically when you are emotional.
• Feel like you can’t stop eating.When you binge eat faster than normal.
• Feel painfully full because you have eaten too muchAfter you binge, feel unhappy, upset, guilty, or depressed
• Because you feel embarrassed about how much you eat you eat alone.

You certainly don’t need all of the symptoms above to have a binge eating disorder, having even a few symptoms can be a sign of a problem that would respond be helped by psychological eating disorder counselling.

Definitions of eating disorders

Bulimia

The short definition of Bulimia is an eating disorder where a person needs to engage in an unhealthy food ritual involving binging on food and then purging themselves (induced vomiting, basically throwing it up). As with Anorexia Nervosa it can and does cause serious mental and physical problems to the sufferer.

Anorexia Nervosa

A disorder that is psycho-physiological (mental/mind and body) in nature. It mostly occurs at the age of 14-26 in young women, but men and people of all ages can and be and are affected. It is characterised by severe weight loss, a fear bordering on terror of becoming obese, a completely distorted self-image (both body image and self concept) and a dangerous and persistent unwillingness to eat that can result in death.

It is often accompanied by self-induced vomiting, excessive exercise, malnutrition, amenorrhea, and other physiological changes.

Binge Eating

In a very short period of time the binger consumes large amounts of food, as with symptoms of bulimia. These episodes are frequent and uncontrolled, followed by feelings of extreme distress or disturbance both after and during a binge. However it is fundamentally different from Bulimia in that there are no regular attempts to induce vomiting, fasting or over exercising to make up for the binges.

Obesity

Obesity describes a person with a high degree of body fat and is who is very overweight. They are often misunderstood by others and feels very conscious when in public. A persons weight is assessed using a scale called the Body Mass Index (BMI).

For a private consultation with a fully qualified Psychological therapist call 01227 290 098