Eating Disorders Psychotherapists in Dublin

Eating disorders affect eating, weight and how a person sees their body ¹. They carry physical risk as well as psychological.

Effective treatments exist, including family-based treatment and cognitive-based therapy. Interpersonal psychotherapy is an option in bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder ².

Families are usually involved rather than kept out. Care is often shared with a doctor. Ask a practitioner which of these approaches they offer.

Everyone on this page describes their work as psychotherapy. A psychotherapist works through talking with you about your thoughts, feelings and behaviours.

Psychotherapy usually runs longer than counselling and aims for clinical change. It works on patterns that repeat rather than on one current problem.

A psychotherapist trains in psychological treatment rather than in medicine. What that training covers, and which approach a practitioner uses, differ between practitioners. Ask which approach a psychotherapist trained in, and how long they usually work.

See the Ireland page for the professions that do carry a register there.