Does my head look big in this?

After 20 years working on women’s magazines, with a private sideline of obsessive studying and researching into overeating, I decided to leave and help women to overcome compulsive and addictive overeating. It was partly to make amends for helping to spread the damaging half truths and diet industry advertising but mostly because it is what I was born to do.

I am so intuitive and so skilled at helping you to get to the roots of your problem and to dig them out but, for a while, I let the fact that I had no formal psychological training throw me off course. But then I decided that it was wrong to waste a gift that is supposed to be helping people just because I had spent my time researching and learning about the subject on my own, rather then with the usual structure of a college or university.

Then I realised that learning without structure was exactly what made my thinking so different. I was angry at the diet industry and the media and instead of following a pattern of thinking that was already set, like I would have if I’d been doing a psychology degree, I went down an entirely different track to everyone else and the result was a completely new way of looking at the problem of overeating and weight loss. And as it’s developed and grown over the last five years, I am ALWAYS a step ahead of other mainstream methods (and also non-mainstream specialists!). I can very confidently say that if you want to stop overeating in today’s world, coming to me is your best bet.

I won’t tell you anything that you’ve tried before. No ‘eat only when hungry and stop when you’re full,’ because it just doesn’t work. Neither does ‘listening to your body’ because most of the time your body isn’t talking!

I don’t follow mainstream plans and I don’t listen to wishy washy myth and rumour generated by media and diet industry and incorporate it into the method. I have been given a brain that understands the big picture and that’s something that no one else seems to be able to do.

As you can see from the letters after my name I am a fully qualified coach. I studied for two years at Newcastle college to get this diploma and didn’t just do one of those weekend courses. To address the lack of psychology qualifications and to bolster my image as a professional, I’m now working towards a post graduate Master of Arts degree in psychotherapy. I now feel that I have such a full understanding of the causes of overeating and a knowledge of how to combat the problem in others that I’m able to receive information without it taking me off track.

From what my clients say, I’m definitely on track!