Alcohol Counselling and Eating Disorder Clinics
Alcohol Counselling and Eating Disorder Clinics are available with resources on how to help people with alcohol mis-use and different eating disorders.
Alcohol mis-use
We live in a society where drinking alcohol is part of our lives. Most people can take or leave a drink and keep alcohol intake within recommended limits, but some people cannot control their need for alcohol.
Alcohol causes physical, psychological and social problems. Problems include –
- Liver disease
- Heart disease
- Stroke
- Depression
- Impaired judgement
- Memory loss
- Domestic abuse
- Violent behaviour
- Losing jobs, friends and family
As with other addictions, a person needs to recognise that regular and excessive drinking is a problem and want to do something about it.
Eating disorders
Food and our relationship with food forms a daily part of our lives. We live in a society where international cuisine is available to us day and night. Food is intrinsically linked to body image and to exercise - by ourselves and by the media. We may use food for comfort or we may not recognise that we have an unhealthy relationship with food or with exercise that is affecting our health and well-being.
Eating disorders include –
- Anorexia
- Bulimia
- Orthorexia (obsessive healthy eating)
- Bigorexia
- Bingeing
- Purging
- Obsessive eating patterns
- Eating only certain types of food
- Compulsive exercising
Our approach to Alcohol Counselling and Eating Disorders
We take an holistic approach when treating alcohol mis-use and eating disorder symptoms – often blending therapies together – so that each client receives what works best for them. This is called integrative counselling. When clients come to us with an idea of what they need, we always recommend that we discuss the options first so we can reach a joint decision about what would be most effective.
With alcohol counselling, it is important that the client realises there is a problem.
With eating disorder symptoms, it is important that male and female clients can identify and recover from their specific eating disorder, in the long term.
Some issues with alcohol and eating are more deep-rooted than others. For example:-
- Some people may not be concerned about their regular intake of alcohol until it is mentioned by someone who has witnessed their behaviour under the influence of alcohol.
- Eating disorders are usually associated with women and are often about women wanting to be smaller. It can be difficult for men to recognise a need to be bigger and that they have Bigorexia.
Some issues are more complex than they seem at first. We are flexible and will recommend changes to any agreed programme if we think that would be better for you.
Whatever we agree, our service is confidential and discreet. We never disclose the names of our clients or talk about them to third parties. Although we have included on this website comments from clients, none of them includes the client’s full name or exact location.
We help individuals, couples and groups of any age, including young adults. Many of our clients are in their 30s and 40s, when life can be especially difficult to cope with, but our emotions can be challenging at any age and stage of life and our mental health and well-being can be affected by experiences and events that happen at any age.
With alcohol and eating disorder counselling, private one-to-one counselling is usually what happens. On occasions, we may have an counselling group of adults or a counselling group of young people.
If you would like to find out if we could help you, we invite you to contact us.
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