Eating habits

Let this be clear from the first line: there are no menus here, no forbidden foods, no weigh-ins, and no weight-loss promises. Diet prescription is not psychological work, and the cycle of restriction and rebound is part of what many people arrive wanting to escape. The work here starts one level deeper — with what eating has come to do for you. Food is rarely just fuel: it soothes, rewards, keeps company, fills evenings, closes arguments. None of that is shameful; it is learning, and it responds to being understood.

Sessions begin by mapping the pattern without judgment: when the difficult eating happens, what precedes it, what it quiets, what follows it. Attention then turns to the signals that constant rules and screens have drowned out — hunger, fullness, the difference between wanting food and needing comfort — and to rebuilding meals where eating is allowed to be ordinary again. Where it is appropriate, medical hypnosis is used to rehearse the tense moments in a calm, focused state: the evening kitchen, the stress that reaches for the cupboard, the pause between impulse and gesture.

One boundary matters here, and stating it is part of taking you seriously: some eating difficulties — severe restriction, purging, binge episodes with a felt loss of control and real distress — belong to the territory of eating disorders, which call for coordinated medical and specialist care. This work can accompany that care; it does not replace it. If that is where you are, the honest first step is saying so, and the work will be built accordingly — alongside the right professionals, not instead of them.