Body Oriented Support

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Sometimes the time is now, if you need immediate support, help is out there. You can call 0808 801 0432 for support in Scotland Mon-Fri from 3PM - 8PM, for more information you can also use their website

What does Body-Oriented include?

It includes complex relationships with food, eating, physical behaviours, and perception of self. It has no gender, age, or look. Someone who lives in a bigger body with a high BMI may have a purging eating disorder and a man who has a six-pack may be struggling with severe body-dysmorphia. It has many faces.

Some aspects of disrupted eating may look like:

  • Deliberately restricting food to influence weight or shape

  • Going 8+ waking hours without eating to influence weight or shape

  • Thoughts about food, eating, or calories making concentration difficult

  • Thoughts about weight or shape making concentration difficult

  • A definite fear of gaining weight

  • A strong desire to lose weight

  • Controlling weight/shape through vomiting or laxatives

  • Exercising in a driven or compulsive way to control weight/shape or burn calories

  • A sense of having lost control over eating (while eating)

  • On out-of-control days, eating an unusually large amount in one go

  • How much weight or shape influences how you judge yourself as a person

  • How dissatisfied you've been with your weight or shape

What does therapy look like?

Body-oriented support often requires a set of questions to better understand what you might be going through, we would go through these in our consultation call.

In the case that I am not the best option to support you, I can offer resources and support in contacting those individuals.

The sessions for body-based oriented therapy often last between 6-12 months and consists of once or twice weekly sessions for the first couple of weeks, then weekly sessions and finally fortnightly sessions. There will be 20- 40 sessions, depending on the individual and health assessments.

After working on body-oriented work, you can opt to stay in therapy where we may explore trauma, anxiety, or other mental health struggles that may have come up during the treatment.