Find Balance in Your Recovery Journey
Reclaim Your Relationship with Food
Discover how to nourish your body and mind with a compassionate approach to eating disorder recovery. Embrace a path that prioritizes safety, understanding, and self-compassion.
Nourishing Your Body Safely
The Cycle That Steals Your Joy
If you’re caught in a diet-binge spiral, I want you to know you’re not alone. This cycle, restricting all day, then bingeing in secret at night, isn’t a sign of failure. It’s a coping mechanism. It’s how many of my clients, especially neurodivergent adults and teens, try to regulate emotion, boredom, and overwhelm.
For me, it started with undiagnosed ADHD.
I craved stimulation and dopamine, and food became my shortcut.
I’d skip breakfast, bin soggy sandwiches at school, and then binge on cream cakes, cookies, and chocolate bars after class.
It wasn’t just about hunger. It was euphoria.
And then came the shame.
I didn’t understand what was happening. I thought I had no willpower. But really, my brain was hungry, for balance, excitement, and safety.
What Diet Culture Doesn’t Understand About Neurodivergence
Most people assume binge eating is about lack of control. But when you’re neurodivergent, especially with ADHD or autism, the cycle is often rooted in:
➔ Dopamine-seeking behaviour
➔ Executive dysfunction (struggling to plan, prep, or remember meals)
➔ Rebellion against imposed rules (especially diet culture)
➔ Sensory cravings or aversions
➔ Emotional regulation through food
Telling someone with ADHD to follow a strict diet? That’s a setup for failure.
Instead, I support people to build routines that feel doable, non-shaming, and totally personalised.
How I Use Lifeline Work to Break the Cycle
One of the most powerful things I do in therapy is helping people trace the origins of their food beliefs.
Was it your mum’s calorie obsession?
Your dad’s comments about your weight?
Or was it something you absorbed from school or social media?
Together, we map your diet culture timeline and begin untangling it.
This is especially important for eating disorder therapy for adults, where beliefs have often been buried for decades.
And for neurodivergent clients, this work can bring huge clarity. You begin to see the pattern. You realise you’re not broken. You were adapting.
Why Most People I Work With Don’t Eat Enough
When I ask new clients what they eat for breakfast, I usually get:
➔ “I don’t eat breakfast.”
➔ “I’m never hungry in the morning.”
➔ “I just grab a coffee.”
This is the setup.
No breakfast = blood sugar crash = emotional dysregulation = binge later in the day.
Part of my trauma-informed eating disorder therapy includes helping clients stabilise blood sugar. We don’t aim for perfection,we aim for consistency.
Small, regular meals with complex carbs + protein + fat can reduce urges to binge.
It’s not about removing food, it’s about adding in safety.
Balancing Freedom and Structure in Recovery
Here’s where diet culture gets it wrong: it creates rules.
But neurodivergent brains resist rules, especially ones imposed externally.
So, in my work, we co-create routines based on your body, needs, and preferences.
We never cut out “bad” foods. Because food isn’t good or bad, it’s just food.
Instead, we explore:
➔ Why do you love the food you binge on?
➔ What does it give you, pleasure, escape, stimulation?
➔ Can we keep those foods in your life without shame?
This is the core of neurodiversity-affirming eating disorder therapy, understanding how your brain and body work together.
The Journey of Recovery
Embracing the Non-Linear Path to Healing
Understanding Recovery
The Reality of Healing
When I support someone with a binge eating cycle, I bring in three things:
A – Awareness
Understanding emotional triggers, ADHD-driven behaviour, masking, and sensory needs.
C – Consistency
Creating stable routines that regulate blood sugar and reduce binge urges.
E – Education
Helping you learn about your neurobiology, nervous system, and trauma responses.
It’s never about “fixing” you.
It’s about helping you feel safe in your body again.
Because recovery isn’t compliance; it’s connection.
What Recovery Actually Looks Like
Recovery isn’t linear.
Some days, you’ll eat well and feel grounded.
On other days, you’ll feel lost again.
But with support, education, and self-compassion, you can rebuild trust in your body.
When I work with clients on binge eating recovery, we move slowly, with curiosity, not judgment.
We talk about the things you’ve never said out loud:
The food wrappers are hidden in your bedroom.
The dinners you threw out the window.
The shame you carry whenever you say, “I’ll start again Monday.”
And we don’t make it about control. We make it about care.
What I Offer in Therapy
I specialise in:
➔ ADHD and eating disorder therapy
➔ Support for neurodivergent teens and adults
➔ Therapy for emotional eating and body image distress
➔ Non-diet recovery work rooted in neuroscience
➔ Eating disorder support in Canterbury, online and in-person
Every session is a safe space to explore, reflect, and rebuild.
Whether you’re bingeing daily, recovering from diet culture, or navigating late-diagnosed ADHD, I’m here to walk alongside you.
You’re Not BrokenWhat Diet Culture Doesn’t Understand About Neurodivergence
You don’t need more willpower.
You need more understanding.
You don’t need a new meal plan.
You need freedom from shame.
If you feel stuck in the diet-binge cycle, know this:
You are not lazy.
You are not greedy.
You are trying to meet your needs the only way you know how.
Let’s build a new way together.
Explore Your Therapy Options
Understanding Your Unique Path to Recovery
If you’re struggling with binge eating and want support that takes neurodivergence, trauma, or emotional eating into account, I’ve written more about my therapy approach on this page: https://www.counsellorwhocares.co.uk/binge-eating-support-canterbury/. It’s a non-shaming, neuroscience-informed breakdown of how I help teens and adults rebuild a calmer relationship with food, without dieting, guilt, or pressure.
