Eating Disorder Therapy in Colchester
Eating disorders are among the most complex psychological conditions — and among the most poorly understood by the people who are supposed to treat them. Most clinical provision is built around women, around a particular age range, and around a narrow version of what an eating disorder looks like. If your experience does not fit that template — if you are a man, if you are older, if what you carry is more about compulsion than restriction, if the disorder has been invisible to those around you — the absence of appropriate support is part of the difficulty.
This practice offers specialist eating disorder therapy in Colchester that does not require your experience to fit a template.
Doctoral-Level Expertise
Dr Jacquet holds a Doctorate of Professional Practice with doctoral research focused specifically on eating disorders. He is the only person in Europe to hold a doctorate in this area. The clinical approach at the Colchester practice is integrative and Jungian — attentive to what the eating behaviour is communicating and protecting, not just managing its surface presentation.
What Is Treated
The practice works with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, compulsive overeating, and orthorexia. There is a particular specialist focus on male eating disorders — Philippe’s primary research area — for men whose experience has been dismissed, misdiagnosed, or met with inadequate support elsewhere.
The Therapeutic Approach
Eating disorder therapy at Colchester is psychotherapeutic in nature. It begins with the person and the meaning of the eating pattern — what it provides, what it protects against, and what it would mean to the person to live without it. Where trauma underlies the disorder, EMDR may be incorporated. Art psychotherapy is also available for material that resists verbal articulation.
Getting Started
An initial consultation in Colchester is the appropriate first step. It is a private, unhurried conversation — conducted, as always, in complete confidence.