About me
A place to begin
A place for anyone affected by eating disorders — whether you’re living it or loving someone through it.
About me and why I do this work
About Me
Hello, I’m Holly.
I’m a counsellor and a mum. I also bring lived experience of an eating disorder, which is part of why this work matters so much to me.
Many people who come to see me feel nervous, overwhelmed, or stuck. Some aren’t even sure they want to change yet. Some feel embarrassed by how powerful the eating disorder feels. If that’s where you find yourself, you’re not alone in it.
Alongside my personal experience, I have a background in psychology, specialist training in schema therapy for eating disorders, an MA in Clinical Counselling, and I’m a registered member of the BACP. I work from person-centred values, which means I’m interested in who you are, not just what you’re eating or not eating.
I care a lot about avoiding rigid, black-and-white approaches. Physical health matters, and I make sure that’s monitored appropriately elsewhere. But in our sessions, we’re not led by numbers. We’re led by curiosity. By understanding what has been happening underneath the behaviours.
One of the most important things I learned in my own recovery was how to recognise the eating disorder logic for what it was. It sounded convincing. It felt protective. But it wasn’t the same as my own voice. Learning to tell the difference changed everything.
I genuinely believe full recovery is possible. Not a perfect life, but one where food and your body no longer run the show.
If you reach out, you’ll meet someone steady, boundaried, and compassionate. Someone who believes the real you is still in there — even if it feels buried right now.
For those experiencing eating troubles
Struggles with food, eating or body image can take many forms. You may have a diagnosis, or you may simply know that something about your relationship with food feels consuming, distressing, or out of balance. Either way, your experience is valid.
For some, it feels like constant control. For others, it feels like loss of control. For many, it shifts between the two. There may be urges that feel hard to resist, patterns you don’t fully understand, or a persistent voice that leaves you feeling criticised, guilty, or never quite enough.
Over time, it can become exhausting. Food stops being just food. It becomes comfort, punishment, distraction, relief, or a way of coping when emotions feel overwhelming.
These patterns do not appear out of nowhere. They usually develop for reasons that make sense in the context of your life. Often, they began as ways of managing something painful, uncertain, or unsafe.
In our work together, we gently create space to understand what your relationship with food has been trying to do for you. From there, we begin to separate your own needs and values from the patterns that have taken hold, building something steadier and kinder in their place.
For those loving someone through it
Loving someone with an eating disorder or eating struggles can be heartbreaking and isolating. You may feel as though the person you love is slipping away, becoming quieter, more withdrawn, or harder to reach.
It is often incredibly difficult for your loved one to understand their own experience, let alone communicate it to you. When someone is caught in eating struggles, they may become defensive, more private, or overwhelmed. Not because they do not trust you, but because things inside can feel confusing or unsafe.
Meanwhile, you are left trying to support someone you care deeply about while feeling helpless, confused, or shut out. Many loved ones describe feeling as though they no longer recognise the person in front of them, and that loneliness deserves acknowledgement too.
You do not have to navigate this alone. I support loved ones in understanding what is happening beneath the surface, how to communicate in ways that reduce shame rather than strengthen unhelpful patterns, and how to stay grounded, compassionate, and connected even when things feel difficult.