Eating Disorders and Food Addiction Counselling
Is your relationship with food causing you distress? As with any addictive behaviour where the goal of recovery is not a view of total abstinence, finding a healthy relationship with food can be challenging. At Leone Centre, our counsellors will work with you to re-establish your ability to eat in connection with your appetite by understanding your relationship with food. Our counselling service can help with eating disorders, regulating binge eating and complex relationships with food.
Is Your Relationship with Food Affecting Your Life?
Are you wondering if your relationship with food might be causing more harm than you realise? It’s not uncommon to feel confused or concerned about your eating habits. You might continue to eat even when you’re not hungry or eating to the point of discomfort. These behaviours can sometimes indicate that food plays a more significant role in your life than it should.
Our counsellors at the Leone Centre are here to help you identify these patterns. Together, we can examine how your eating habits impact your overall well-being. This understanding is crucial in changing how you interact with food, allowing you to move towards a healthier, more balanced relationship with eating.
Understanding Eating Disorders
Are you finding that certain foods seem to have a hold over you despite your best efforts? Food addiction is a complex issue where specific foods can trigger brain responses similar to addictive substances. Highly palatable foods, particularly those high in sugar, fat, and salt, can activate the pleasure centres in the brain, leading to a cycle of compulsive eating. This can make regulating your intake challenging and leave you feeling powerless.
At Leone Centre, we work with you to explore these patterns, helping you understand how food can sometimes take on a role beyond mere nourishment. By recognising these underlying processes, we can begin to untangle the emotional and psychological influences that drive our eating habits.
Has your relationship with food become destructive?
Feeling out of control of your eating patterns? Learn to empower yourself and develop healthy coping strategies to live a fulfilled life with a refreshed relationship with food.
We work with ‘well-known’ eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating. However, it isn’t always as simple as one or the other and disordered eating can fall anything around and in-between.
We emphasize the importance of ensuring that your relationship with food does not negatively impact any other area of your life.
Do you want to change your relationship with your eating habits but find yourself repeating the same cycles?
We work integratively to work with your behaviour. When eating habits are addressed, the underlying problems can be worked on so you can make changes.
With the right support, you will be able to recover and get in touch with your natural eating to maintain a healthy and fulfilling life and weight as a consequence.
Do you use food or control over your eating as a comfort, a way to satisfy needs other than hunger?
If you use food as a crutch to manage difficulties regulating stress and anxiety, we encourage you to contact us today. Our therapists are specially trained to help support you in a confidential and sensitive space.
The knock-on distress eating disorders can cause family and friends can be difficult and leave you feeling helpless. We work with families of loved ones suffering to provide professional support.
As with any form of addiction – we know that you can recover. We also know that there is not something wrong with you, but they are often a result of suffering significant stress and/or trauma at some point in your life.
At Leone Centre, we are dedicated to providing you with the highest-quality service, professional expertise, and compassionate care so you can heal from your addiction, knowing you are in safe and trusted hands.
Food Addiction vs. Eating Disorders
Are you struggling to make sense of your eating habits? It’s important to recognise that food addiction and binge eating disorder, while related, are not the same. Food addiction may involve a persistent craving for certain foods, driven by the brain’s reward system, whereas binge eating disorder often involves consuming large amounts of food in a short period, followed by feelings of shame or guilt.
At Leone Centre, we understand that these experiences can be deeply personal and unique. We will work with you to identify the nature of your relationship with food, helping you to understand where you are on this spectrum. This awareness can be empowering, as it allows us to support you in finding a path that addresses your needs.
The Impact on Your Daily Life: When Food Becomes More Than Just a Meal
Is your relationship with food interfering with other parts of your life? Food addiction and disordered eating can sometimes extend beyond the dining table, affecting your social interactions, work, and personal relationships. You might find yourself avoiding certain situations for fear of overeating, or your thoughts about food consume your time and energy, leaving little room for other activities.
Leone Centre offers a space to explore these impacts in a supportive and understanding environment. We recognise that food can sometimes become a way of managing emotions or stress, and our work together will aim to address these deeper issues. By acknowledging how food affects your life, we can create space for new ways of living that are not dominated by concerns about eating.
Seeking Support: You Don’t Have to Face This Alone
If you’re overwhelmed by your relationship with food, know you don’t have to navigate this journey alone. It can be difficult to break free from the patterns of food addiction, especially when it feels like food has become a way to manage difficult emotions. However, there is support available.
At Leone Centre, our counsellors are here to provide a safe and non-judgmental space where you can explore these challenges. We understand that food is a necessary part of life, and our focus is on helping you find a way to incorporate it into your life without it becoming a source of distress. Whether you are dealing with food addiction, binge eating, or any other form of disordered eating, we are here to support you as you work towards a healthier relationship with food.
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