Eating Disorder Support
Partnership in Recovery
Support for eating disorders focuses on rebuilding trust with food and your body, supporting physical health, and creating a path forward that feels manageable and sustainable.
Eating disorders can affect people in many different ways. You might feel stuck in patterns around food, experience strong anxiety about eating, or feel that food and body thoughts are taking up a lot of space in your life. Seeking support can feel like a big step, and you don’t have to navigate it alone.
When eating disorder concerns show up
Eating disorders can present differently for everyone. Some common experiences people may notice include:
Restricting food or feeling anxious about eating certain foods
Feeling a loss of control around food or episodes of binge eating
Purging behaviours or compensatory behaviours related to food or exercise
Strong guilt, shame or distress related to eating
Rigid food rules or difficulty eating regularly
Feeling disconnected from hunger or fullness cues
If any of these experiences feel familiar, dietetic support can help provide structure, guidance and reassurance while recovery is taking place.
You’re not alone if…
You spend a lot of time thinking about food, eating, calories or your body
You feel stuck in cycles of restricting, overeating or feeling out of control around food
Eating feels stressful, overwhelming or confusing
You feel unsure what “normal” eating looks like anymore
Food rules or guilt around eating are taking up a lot of mental space
Eating disorders can affect anyone. They don’t discriminate against body shape or size, age, gender, culture or ethnicity.
Support can be helpful even if you’re not sure whether what you’re experiencing “counts” as an eating disorder, or if there are periods you don’t feel “sick enough” for support.
How an eating disorder dietitian can help
Dietetic support in eating disorder recovery focuses on both nutritional rehabilitation and rebuilding a more positive relationship with food.
This may include:
Establishing regular and adequate nutrition
Supporting nutritional rehabilitation and medical stability
Reducing food rules and fear foods over time
Understanding hunger, fullness and body signals
Navigating eating in everyday situations such as work, social events or travel
Providing education and reassurance during recovery
The pace of this work takes into consideration your needs and readiness, while also drawing on our dietitian’s experience supporting people through eating disorder recovery. At times this may involve challenging unhelpful patterns so that progress can continue to move forward.
Appointments provide a space to explore your experiences with food and develop practical strategies to support recovery. This may include nutrition education, collaborative goal setting, and building sustainable routines around meals and snacks.
Where appropriate, care may be provided as part of a multidisciplinary team, alongside your GP, psychologist and/or other health professionals. This collaborative approach helps ensure both your physical and psychological wellbeing are supported.
What to expect from the first appointment
The first session focuses on getting to know you and understanding your experiences with food, your health history and what support might look like for you. It also provides an opportunity for you to get to know our dietitian, as feeling comfortable with your clinician is always an important part of recovery.
Any assessments, including weighing, are always discussed beforehand. Nothing will happen without your knowledge and consent.
There is no expectation to make big changes straight away. The focus is on understanding where things are at and working together to decide the next steps at a pace that feels manageable and supports your recovery and individual needs.
Getting Started
If you’re considering support for an eating disorder, you don’t need to have everything figured out before your first appointment.
Together we can take things one step at a time and work in partnership to support your recovery.
Book an appointment or reach out if you have any questions about whether this support might be right for you.