8 Week Emotional Eating Programme
Our 8 week emotional eating programme is a 'therapy-light' brief structured intervention aimed at introducing people to strategies to help them overcome emotional eating. It isn’t aimed at working on more severe underlying issues but rather to work in the 'here and now' and to provide useful strategies to improve someone’s relationship with food. After completing the 8 week programme people are invited to either end treatment and practice putting the suggested strategies in place, or to decide whether they would like to continue working on any underlying difficulties uncovered during the program. These might include relationships, self esteem, trauma, perfectionism, low mood or anxiety.
Breakdown of the Programme
Week 1. Assessment
Prior to the start of the course, we will conduct a 60-minute assessment to ensure that this program is a good fit for you. During this session we will gather information to understand your current lifestyle, eating patterns, and beliefs around food and your body. This will then help us tailor a treatment plan that is aligned to your unique needs.
Weeks 2-7. The course
If the course is a good fit for you, you will be attending 7 weekly 50-minute sessions. Here we will jointly establish very specific and realistic treatment goals, offer education around a range of topics to help you understand your eating patterns, and identify your emotional eating triggers. Together we will build up a unique coping toolkit to help you manage your emotions without always turning to food.
Week 8. Review
During the last session we will review your progress and together decide on the next steps moving forward. We will aim to provide you with a clear and specific maintenance plan and discuss possible options should further therapeutic work be required.
Who is it for?
This 8-week emotional eating Programme is for you if:
You are stuck in the restrict-binge cycle
You want to break free from the food guilt and start truly enjoying your favourite foods
You want to make peace with your body and feel comfortable in your own skin
You want to enjoy eating in social situations without food worry
You find yourself always turning to food to cope with difficult feelings
You feel out of control around food when experiencing intense emotions
You can’t stop thinking about food
You are sick of jumping on and off the diet wagon
You don’t have an active eating disorder
What you will learn
During the 8-week emotional eating program you will:
Build an in depth understanding of what emotional eating means
Understand your eating patterns and recognise your emotional eating triggers
Recognise your beliefs around food and explore whether or not these are impacting on your relationship with food
Gain an in depth understanding around the range of different emotions to help you increase your emotional awareness
Develop effective coping skills to navigate your emotions
Learn about the practice of self-compassion in helping you build emotional resilience
Explore your relationship with your body and body image beliefs and how these may be impacting on your eating patterns
Explore other areas of your life that are meaningful to you and that might be lacking pleasure and satisfaction
Devise a maintenance plan to feel confident and empowered around food
This specifically devised one to one programme will be tailored to you by your clinician, and will not only help you understand your eating patterns and identify your triggers, but will also supply you with the right toolkit to manage your emotions without turning to food.
Your clinician will be able to talk to you about your treatment needs and the most appropriate treatment for you during your initial assessment.
If you are interested in our 8-week emotional eating program, and either have further questions, or would like to book the initial assessment session, please do contact us at info@thelondoncentre.co.uk and we will gladly answer any of your questions.
For more information on Emotional Eating, please read our blog post