We are a not for profit, private Eating Disorder Service in London

We have two types of initial appointment clinician led and Psychiatrist led.

Both are designed to understand the history and details of the current concern. 

You will be asked about early years development, medical and family history, experiences of education or work places and future plans. We will spend time understanding the aetiology of the current concern and how it has progressed to the current day.  

We will also take current height, body weight and may check blood pressure, temperature and pulse. 

A holistic view of the individual will be created from this to inform which treatment will be best suited. 

The appointment will also include some psychoeducation about specific eating disorders and advice around first steps to recovery.

If you are seeing the Consultant Psychiatrist you may be given a formal diagnosis.

We will make initial recommendations for specific clinicians where possible at the appointment but on occasion your situation may require case discussion and we will be in touch with recommendations.  

After this any letters or reports will be sent along with your care plan for treatment at the clinic.

This will depend on your individual situation. Where possible we will try to minimise this and all our clinicians are extremely experienced at supporting recovery. However there may be times when it is required as part of a treatment plan. 

The clinical rationale will be discussed with you along with suggested clinicians to see and appointment frequency.

Both the assessment options are designed to create an understanding of the condition being experienced by the individual, however the only person able to formally diagnose an eating disorder is a Consultant Psychiatrist. 

If you are attending a clinician assessment we will offer an explanation as to what diagnostic threshold the symptoms you are experiencing are meeting, however this would not be a formal diagnosis.

It is helpful to bring a short food diary from the previous 3 days.

If you have had any relevant previous assessments it would be helpful to send this to the clinic prior to your appointment so that the assessing clinician can review it. 

Depending on the assessed medical risk you may be asked to visit your GP to get bloods and an ECG prior to your appointment but this will be discussed with you if required.

Recovery is a journey and can take some time. Factors that will impact this are condition type, psychological distress, length of illness, motivation to recover, starting body weight.

There are national clinical guidelines which offer evidence based treatment options and guidance on treatment type and length. This can be between 10-40 sessions. This will be discussed at your initial assessment and ongoing with the clinicians that you work with.

All our clinicians are extremely experienced at interpreting and managing risk. However in order to ensure that all clients have safe experience at the clinic we are not able to hold certain levels of medical risk. Where possible we will try to facilitate shared care with safe levels of medical risk with GPs or Consultants. 

At present we cannot support adult individuals with a BMI under 14.5kg/m2.

Any young people below a weight for height percentage of 75% will be considered case by case with evaluation of wider risk factors and medical stability.