We are a professional partnership CBT therapists and counsellors in London experienced in helping people move beyond issues with food and with eating disorders. Providing one-to-one therapy to help you to work through problems with body image, bingeing, purging, restricting, selective eating and related issues.
By tackling the way we think about ourselves, our bodies, and food, and using this to inform changes in our eating behaviours, CBT provides a powerful method for breaking free from the grip of anxiety, guilt and shame that can control our relationship with food.
THE HOUSE PARTNERSHIP
KEY POINTS
EXCELLENT LOCATIONS
Eating Disorders therapists at two central London locations with great transport links
FORWARD LOOKING
A positive, solution-focused approach to food issues & eating disorders
FULLY REGISTERED
Eating Disorders therapists registered with the Health & Care Professions Council
POSITIVE CHANGE
Sharing a deeply held belief that positive change is possible for all our clients
LONDON W1 & EC1
EATING DISORDERS THERAPISTS AT THE HOUSE PARTNERSHIP
Dr Gill Deane
Chartered Psychologist
Gill qualified as a psychologist in South Africa and underwent further training in Gestalt Psychotherapy at Metanoia Institute. Since chartership in 2001, she has held senior positions in the public, private and charity sectors. Gill works across all presentations of depressive and anxiety conditions, and has particular expertise in eating disorders and sports’ psychology.
Alongside her private work, Hayley manages The House Partnership. She also has considerable experience as a psychologist in two NHS trusts. Together with her work in general adult mental health, she has a particular specialism in eating disorders.
Silvia completed her training at the Institute of Psychiatry and City University. She is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist who alongside her private practice work, has extensive experience of working in private and public settings including NHS primary care, IAPT, Eating Disorders and specialist Trauma Services. Her particular expertise and specialism is in treating Trauma/PTSD, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, stress, work and relationships issues.
By tackling the way we think about ourselves, our bodies, and food, and using this to inform changes in our eating behaviours, CBT provides a powerful method for breaking free from the powerful grip of anxiety, guilt and shame that can control our relationship with food.
Though it has been proposed that food issues such as extreme dieting, anorexia and bulimia are on the rise and influenced by media pressures, analysis of texts about and by many of history's key figures suggests that these problems have been around for centuries.
TV has been blamed for a range of problems in children and adolescents including poor body image and food issues. By studying a rural population in Fiji with only recent access to TV, and tracking attitudes to weight and shape, researchers have spotted the first signs of problem eating.
By tackling the way we think about ourselves, our bodies, and food, and using this to inform changes in our eating behaviours, CBT provides a powerful method for breaking free from the powerful grip of anxiety, guilt and shame that can control our relationship with food.
Issues with food and eating are relatively common for both men and women: even if our problems are not at a level recognisable as Anorexia or Bulimia or another diagnostic category, many of us struggle with our body image, seem to be on a constant diet, find ourselves trapped in cycles of binge eating, or experience anxieties at the prospect of meal times.
Steve Blacknell, 55, used to sneak into the kitchen in the middle of the night to eat in secret. He has been recovering from bulimia for 20 years. At The House, our therapists and counsellors are experienced in helping people overcome issues with food and eating.
It can feel like there are any number of things that can come problematic about our relationship with food: not eating 'enough' of it, eating 'too much' of it, using it as an emotional crutch... Psychotherapy can offer a solution-focused way of tackling these issues.
In this great introduction to existentialism, Gary Cox persuades us that the philosophy is not pessimistic, but uplifting, and has the potential to free us from restrictions and barriers we impose upon ourselves. But be warned - existentialism is not for the faint-hearted!
Researchers comparing expectations within two groups of therapy clients found how some experience 'pleasant surprise' at the content and process of their sessions — and that this shift in expectations may actually be beneficial to the therapeutic outcome.
Depression is widespread across the globe, affecting people from all cultural and social backgrounds—though it may often be conceived of and named differently in non-western cultures. It has long been reckoned that there must be good biological reasons for depression's global ubiquity.
Antidepressants ~ chemical intervention or placebo?
Article
The chemical imbalance theory of depression came about by accident; a serendipitous discovery in the search for drugs to treat completely different disorders. How reliable is this theory of depression, and is this really what antidepressant medications are affecting?
Are we becoming more fearful in the UK? The question is answered by the Mental Health Foundation in their report, In The Face of Fear, with a clear 'yes'. The report presents evidence showing a consistent increase in anxiety over the past couple of decades.
By tackling the way we think about ourselves, our bodies, and food, and using this to inform changes in our eating behaviours, CBT provides a powerful method for breaking free from the powerful grip of anxiety, guilt and shame that can control our relationship with food.
Though it has been proposed that food issues such as extreme dieting, anorexia and bulimia are on the rise and influenced by media pressures, analysis of texts about and by many of history's key figures suggests that these problems have been around for centuries.
TV has been blamed for a range of problems in children and adolescents including poor body image and food issues. By studying a rural population in Fiji with only recent access to TV, and tracking attitudes to weight and shape, researchers have spotted the first signs of problem eating.
By tackling the way we think about ourselves, our bodies, and food, and using this to inform changes in our eating behaviours, CBT provides a powerful method for breaking free from the powerful grip of anxiety, guilt and shame that can control our relationship with food.
Issues with food and eating are relatively common for both men and women: even if our problems are not at a level recognisable as Anorexia or Bulimia or another diagnostic category, many of us struggle with our body image, seem to be on a constant diet, find ourselves trapped in cycles of binge eating, or experience anxieties at the prospect of meal times.
Steve Blacknell, 55, used to sneak into the kitchen in the middle of the night to eat in secret. He has been recovering from bulimia for 20 years. At The House, our therapists and counsellors are experienced in helping people overcome issues with food and eating.
It can feel like there are any number of things that can come problematic about our relationship with food: not eating 'enough' of it, eating 'too much' of it, using it as an emotional crutch... Psychotherapy can offer a solution-focused way of tackling these issues.
In this great introduction to existentialism, Gary Cox persuades us that the philosophy is not pessimistic, but uplifting, and has the potential to free us from restrictions and barriers we impose upon ourselves. But be warned - existentialism is not for the faint-hearted!
Researchers comparing expectations within two groups of therapy clients found how some experience 'pleasant surprise' at the content and process of their sessions — and that this shift in expectations may actually be beneficial to the therapeutic outcome.
Depression is widespread across the globe, affecting people from all cultural and social backgrounds—though it may often be conceived of and named differently in non-western cultures. It has long been reckoned that there must be good biological reasons for depression's global ubiquity.
Antidepressants ~ chemical intervention or placebo?
Article
The chemical imbalance theory of depression came about by accident; a serendipitous discovery in the search for drugs to treat completely different disorders. How reliable is this theory of depression, and is this really what antidepressant medications are affecting?
Are we becoming more fearful in the UK? The question is answered by the Mental Health Foundation in their report, In The Face of Fear, with a clear 'yes'. The report presents evidence showing a consistent increase in anxiety over the past couple of decades.
