What to expect
a structured six-session therapeutic process
a safe, attuned group environment
guided reflection, discussion, and body-based exercises
support with body image, relational patterns, and emotional defences
space to express needs, navigate challenge, and feel witnessed
integration support between insight and lived change
What does the process look like?
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Connecting with the therapist and/or group, setting the tone, and beginning to explore body image and relational dynamics.
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Exploring how you show up in relationships, how you perceive others, and how you feel perceived in return.
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Guided discussions to explore the difference between how you see yourself and how others may see you.
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Identifying the deeper emotional narratives expressed through your relationship with your body.
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Learning to recognise old protective patterns and replace them with more conscious, body-based tools, including boundaries and healthy assertiveness.
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Reflecting on your growth process, naming what has shifted, and supporting integration of this therapeutic cycle.
Why psychodynamic psychotherapy?
explores the roots beneath eating disorder patterns
helps uncover unconscious beliefs and emotional wounds
supports body image healing through deeper self-understanding
strengthens your capacity for safe, honest relationships
helps replace protective patterns with conscious choices
creates space for new internal stories to emerge
FAQ
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Psychodynamic therapy is a depth-based therapeutic approach. It helps you explore how past experiences, unconscious beliefs, emotional wounds, and relationship patterns may still be shaping your present life.
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Eating disorders are rarely just about food or body image. They often carry deeper stories around control, safety, shame, attachment, anger, grief, and self-worth. Psychodynamic therapy gives you space to understand those roots and begin changing them from within.
💡 discounts available for Recovery Circle members
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Yes. Psychodynamic therapy can sit alongside nutritional, medical, psychiatric, or other therapeutic support. It is designed to deepen the emotional and relational layers of recovery, not replace essential clinical care.
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