I work One on One with clients and have been doing so since 1999.

It has been my life’s work to show you a way out of your pain.

Living with eating issues is hard work.
I use the analogy of ‘walking beside you like a supportive friend,’ while we work together. I am very happy to provide hope, encouragement and support. I can also provide skills, strategies, tools and resources that have helped many people on their journey to overcoming their eating issues.

Where do I start?

I understand how confusing and overwhelming all this information may be if you’ve just come across it. If you like what you’ve read so far, and you want more, may I suggest that you listen to a few episodes of the Support to Stop Overeating Podcast?

Or if you’ve read the book “Eating Out of Control: 7 Steps to Understanding why you do it, so you can stop,” and you are longing for a more personal experience of support, please consider getting in touch with me to organise your own Phone Support Call.

What exactly do you help with?

I can help you feel more in charge of your eating, no matter how long you may have been overeating and how out of control with food you may have felt. I provide a support service and there are different levels of support available, according to your needs.

If you have felt stuck in cycles of overeating, whether you identify your style of eating as: compulsive eating, binge eating or bulimia, I can help you.

As a beginning step: I can help you with a full vocabulary of feelings and needs. When you get connected with your actual feelings and needs, underneath the top layer, the symptom/the coping mechanism of “overeating,” a whole new world will open up for you.

You won’t need to use food anymore to help you express how you are really feeling and you can explore dozens of new non-food ways to get your needs met. Do you think these two new skills would make a difference in your life?

My goal is to fully empower you with the skills, strategies, tools and resources that you can use to help yourself with, and that way, you get to own all of your own successes too.

Will this help me lose weight?

That’s a really common question, and I’ve wanted to know exactly the same thing more times than I care to remember, usually right after I had a binge and was feeling desperate, guilty and remorseful for all my perceived “food sins.”

Many people come to this work feeling exhausted by their diets and yet still hoping for some kind of miracle with something else. As Martha Beck, the witty author of “The 4 Day Win” quipped “We’d all like to find a place of Thinner Peace!”

My approach isn’t focused on weight loss, it’s focused on empowering you with skills that you can use for the rest of your life – for long-term sustainable lifestyle change that will transform your relationship with food and hopefully find your true Self along the way.

A Self that you can like and feel comfortable with, a Self who is worthy of the best of everything that life has to offer, including your enjoyment of eating and your body and a Self that knows that you never need to deprive yourself of food again.

Your journey may or may not include weight loss. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I don’t own a Crystal Ball and because of this, Trust has needed to become a large part of this process of taking our power back from the Billion Dollar Weight Loss Industry. As soon as we go on a diet, we develop a diet mentality and we become disconnected from our bodies. Growing trust and finding a way to like ourselves is the last thing the Weight Loss Industry wants us to do.

The famous psychologist, Carl Rogers said “The curious paradox is, when I accept myself as I am, then I change.”

How is this different from working with a Dietician or a Nutritionist?

Most traditional approaches to eating issues focus on what you’re eating. I used to think if I could just find The Perfect Right Diet for me, that would solve all my problems. Well, I’ve spend the last 40 years looking in the fridge for answers and I still haven’t found anything – nor did I ever understand why I ate the way I did. It was all a huge, expensive and disempowering mystery to me.

My approach focuses on why you’re eating the way you are. And I like to put you 100% in the driver’s seat. There is no money to be made from teaching people how to do it for themselves. This is a long-term, sustainable, as in for the rest of your life, approach.

I can teach you skills so you can learn how you might have been feeling at the time you overate and further, what your unmet needs might have been when you overate – you can then consider what void you were trying to fill with food. This information alone has the potential to change the whole dynamic of your relationship with food.

There are a million reasons why we overeat and none of them are really about food. Eating is our first response at self-soothing and it is always an attempt at making things better. We eat when we’re happy, sad, bored, upset or anxious. Food comforts us and food is love in many ways.

If you’re interested in learning more about long term sustainable weight loss, I would recommend watching a documentary called “Follow Me” on Youtube. Tony Vassello interviews 16 people, including himself, who have kept 1600 pounds (727 kilos) off, for anywhere from 5 years to 30 years. Each person talks about the changes they have made in their lifestyle in order to keep the weight off.

Do I need a referral to work with you? And do I get a rebate from NDIS or Medicare?

The short answer is no. And no.

Please feel free to pick up the phone and contact me if you would like to work with me. There is more information in the Frequently Asked Questions section on this.

Is this therapy?

No, this isn’t therapy and I am not a Doctor or a Psychologist.

I provide support to people with eating issues. I am a person who has recovered from her Eating Issues providing support to other people who are seeking help to overcome their Eating Issues.

I see my role as an important part of your Health and Wellbeing Team – I imagine others in your team might include: your Doctor, an Exercise Physiologist and maybe a Dietician. I would also encourage you to explore other creative options like: Art Therapy, Equine Therapy, Dance Therapy and Movement Therapy. There are many paths to the truth and it’s important that you find someone you like to work with.

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My Approach – and the Bottom Line in Healing…

I have discovered through decades of therapy and all my own trial and error that the bottom line in what I do when I work with you, is attempt to help you understand your internal experience of shame, to know yourself better, and to make friends with your inner child.  

Beyond that, the real journey this work will take you on is one of self-acceptance and I sincerely hope my work will help you to find yours – I believe that’s why I’m here.

Read more about my work and my approach.