Find Eating Disorders Psychotherapists in London, the United Kingdom

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. Treatments used also include eating-disorder-focused cognitive behavioural therapy and MANTRA ².

Specialist supportive clinical management is another. Interpersonal psychotherapy is an option in bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder ³.

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 ⁴.

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.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Lambeth Talking Therapies. Phone +44 20 3228 6747. Talking Therapies care is free under the NHS. Adults aged 18 and older can refer themselves. You must live in Lambeth or have a Lambeth GP.

In the United Kingdom the practitioner psychologist titles are protected and held on a statutory register; counsellor and psychotherapist are not. See the United Kingdom page.