What to Expect in eating disorder recovery.
Recovery is a deeply personal journey. We meet you where ever you are, with long-term, flexible support tailored to you. Whether joining a Recovery Circle—our online peer-support groups—moving into one of our recovery co-living homes, or exploring one-to-one therapy, we’re here to walk with you every step of the way.
Once we start working together, you’ll immediately become part of a compassionate community dedicated to helping you achieve lasting recovery. Starting with a gentle assessment to understand your needs, challenges and goals, we will develop a recovery roadmap together, one uniquely suited to you.
Your support will typically involve a combination of group therapy, peer support, one-to-one therapy and digital tools depending on needs, as well as support from our lived-experience team. Whether you prefer a little extra focus on emotional processing and regulation, boundaries, coaching or relapse prevention strategies, your plan will evolve as you progress through recovery.
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a phased approach.
Phase 1: building connection and safety
During the first three months, we focus on establishing trust and creating a safe space where you can connect with peers, explore your experiences and understand drivers of disordered eating. This phase emphasises psychological safety, eliminating shame, improving quality of life, and establishing the foundation for deep work.
Phase 3: Deep Trauma Work and Mastery
Months 6-9 are dedicated to addressing underlying trauma or negative experiences that may be impacting your life beyond ED. With the compassionate support of expert therapists and peers, you’ll work on overcoming limiting beliefs and developing the courage to advocate for, and protect your needs and boundaries.
Phase 2: Tackling Challenges
From months 3-6, the focus shifts to strengthening personal agency and engaging with deeper emotional work. Having reframed your relationship with your ed and disordered eating behaviours from a place of self-compassion, we focus on finding new sources of strength, self-worth, and empowering coping strategies.
Phase 4: Living with Purpose and Meaning
In the final phase, you’ll align your life with your authentic values and goals. This stage focuses on human needs, coaching, empowerment — transitioning from recovery to building a life you truly love, grounded in peace, purpose and personal meaning, the North Stars of long term ED recovery.
Peer-supported transformation in a safe, non-judgmental space.
Recovery Circles provide weekly, therapist-led group sessions where small, carefully curated peer-support groups of 4-6 women share experiences, build trust, and foster accountability. These circles are a cornerstone of Ianthe House’s peer-supported approach.
Each Circle has it’s own unique theme, quality and character, with dedicated Circles for different locations, ED type or demographic.
A home built for recovery.
Our co-living homes offer a supportive, structured environment where you can focus on healing while maintaining your independence. Together with ongoing lived-experience mentorship, residents participate in weekly ground therapy through their Recovery Circle, shared wellness activities and discounted one-to-one therapeutic support from our therapy toolbox.
We currently have Houses in London, Cornwall and Lisbon and are expanding. If our current properties are not suitable, you can request an Ianthe House to come to your area during your application.
Your recovery, your way.
Design your own therapeutic support system through our network of expert eating disorder practitioners. Choose from lived-experience therapists, therapeutic modality, and book sessions at your preferred cadence.
Members of Recovery Circles and Ianthe Houses receive exclusive discounts, one-to-one therapy packages and booking credits.
daily support, tailored to you.
Stay connected with personalised daily WhatsApp messages designed to reinforce your goals, provide motivation, and promote self-compassion. This supportive framework adapts as your needs evolve, offering a consistent touchpoint throughout your recovery journey
evidence-based tools for growth.
Our recovery support goes far beyond group therapy. Ianthe House equips each woman with a personalised toolkit for sustainable healing — integrating somatic practices, trauma-informed therapy, and intelligent digital support.
Evidence-based and lived-experience-led, these tools create momentum between sessions and build the skills needed to maintain recovery over time.
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Somatic therapies such as EFT, EMDR, psychedelic therapy to help process trauma stored in the body, supported by grounding practices for emotional regulation and tension release. Psychodynamic therapy for deep insight into unconscious patterns driving behaviours.
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Personalised WhatsApp check-ins and 1:1 mentorship reinforce routine, motivation and gentle accountability.
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Track your progress with journaling tools and AI driven analytics, providing actionable insights into your progress and wellbeing. Use these reflections to deepen self-awareness and self-mastery.
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Measurable data and insights on your progress across core recovery pillars, ED symptoms and wellbeing to inform and guide your journey, and adapt support as you evolve.
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Practical spaces to reconnect with values, identity, purpose, meaning, and life beyond recovery.
