
Psychotherapy on Harley Street, London
Counselling for Stress and Anxiety
Hypnotherapy on Harley Street
Depression Counselling on Harley Street
Bereavement Counselling
Art Therapy
Treatment for Eating Disorders
Anorexia Treatment
Overeating Counselling
Bulimia Treatment
Addiction Counselling
Sex Addiction
E.M.D.R.
Executive Coaching
Our Approach
Whist anorexia can occur at
any age and in younger males and females, it is most commonly associated with
girls in their teenage and early adult years. Anorexia treatment at our Harley
Street Office not only helps to provide education and sound nutritional
practices for our clients, but we also use a variety of different therapeutic
options to provide a holistic approach to healing on a highly individualized
and personalised level.
The Inner Self
Anorexia, like bulimia,
compulsive eating and other eating disorders, may have some physical and
physiological roots, but it is largely an emotional and mental health
condition. Patents with anorexia have an inability to see themselves
accurately. This is known as a distorted self-image or inaccurate perception of
self.
For anorexics their inner
sense of self, the actual person that they see when they look in the mirror, is
not the same person that you or I would see. Despite being very thin, even to
the point of literal starvation, they see themselves as fat or they may compare
what they perceive their body to be against some impossible standard. Often
girls with anorexia refuse to acknowledge that they have a problem and point to
supermodels or the latest star as proof that they need to be thin to be
successful, popular or meaningful in the world around them.
The Anorexia Treatment Plan
After meeting with the
therapists at the Harley Street Office a treatment plan will be developed that
is specific to the issues expressed by the client. This may include
incorporating a range of different therapeutic models to get to the underlying
cause of the distortion of self-image. It may be that the client has to deal
with issues within their family of origin, get treatment for depression, or has
to address abuse or acknowledge that they are in denial about their declining
health.
Anorexia treatment at our
Harley Street Office or our other locations is not a simple, one step process.
It will take a skilled psychotherapist with years of experience in working with
patients with eating disorders to explore how this negative self-image and
thought pattern evolved, and then work with the patient to learn new, positive,
healthy and reality based ways to see themselves in the future.
Posted by : Philippe Jacquet