Erin Gallagher Psychotherapy

Intuitive Eating is the term used to describe the approach to eating that every single person was born knowing. The term 'intuitive eating' was developed as a necessary reaction to the damaging effects diet culture has inflicted on so many people in modern society. Diet messages, along with health and nutrition fear-mongering have caused so many of us to mistrust our own inner wisdom.  

Through Intuitive Eating Psychotherapy you will finally break out of diet culture, tune into your inner wisdom about what and when you need to eat and move. You'll reclaim your mental, physical, emotional and relational well-being. 

Intuitive Eating is about regaining trust in food and movement, your body and most importantly yourself.  You will learn to trust your body, and not to micromanage it. We doubt ourselves for many reasons, many of which are due to a culture which champions the control of food and bodies in order to look a certain way, and so we turn to dieting and restrictive eating behaviours. What isn't advertised so much is that 95% of diets fail. We are led to believe that we have failed the diet but the truth is the diet failed us. Dieting and weight cycling have a profound negative effect on our bodies and brains and they impact our emotions enormously.

Intuitive Eating Psychotherapy challenges and disregards the negative and controlling beliefs about how your diet, body and life "should" be. You will experience mental, emotional and physical freedom once you choose to engage in this effective and authentic way to perceive food, your body and yourself.

I am skilled in working with clients who can't face another diet or restrictive behaviours but who also aren't at peace with food and their bodies. They feel stuck, have reached an impasse and are struggling to know how to go forward. Clients enter sessions feeling at war with what to eat, how they feel and how they look. As an anti-diet intuitive eating psychotherapist I will guide you through the principles of intuitive eating, challenging all of the toxic beliefs about your body and food that will be blocking you from being able to enjoy life peacefully.