Therapy for Eating Disorders

Eating distress is often about more than food. It may involve control, shame, fear, punishment, comfort, body image, secrecy, or a need to feel steady when life feels unsteady.

Moffat can support the counselling side of eating difficulties. If your physical health is at risk, medical care, nutritional support, or specialist eating disorder treatment should be involved too.

How this can show up

• Restricting, bingeing, purging, over-exercising, or strict food rules
• Feeling anxious, guilty, or ashamed after eating
• Constant body checking or fear of weight change
• Hiding food behaviours from people close to you
• Feeling that food is the only area you can control

What counselling with Moffat can focus on

Sessions can help you understand what the pattern is protecting you from and what emotions sit beneath it. Moffat can also support work around shame, control, family pressure, body image, and safer ways to manage distress.

Starting sessions

If you are medically unwell, fainting, rapidly losing weight, purging often, or feeling unable to eat safely, seek medical support urgently. Counselling can sit alongside that care.