I provide psychological treatment for adolescents and adults aged 13 years and over experiencing trauma, PTSD, and eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, ARFID, and difficulties with eating, body image, or food-related anxiety.
I have a particular interest in attachment, childhood trauma, and the ways our early relationships and experiences can shape how we relate to ourselves and others. This includes individuals who have developed avoidant attachment patterns and find it challenging to trust others, express their emotional needs, or feel comfortable with vulnerability and closeness. I also enjoy working with individuals experiencing internalising difficulties, such as depression, low self-esteem, shame, self-criticism, and suppressing emotions. Together, we can explore how these patterns developed, understand the ways they may have helped you cope or feel safe, and gradually develop a more compassionate relationship with yourself and a greater sense of emotional safety and connection with others.
I am also interested in the psychological impact of medical conditions that affect eating, including Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), histamine intolerance, coeliac disease, food intolerances, and other conditions that require dietary restrictions or make eating physically uncomfortable or unpredictable. Living with these conditions can create a complicated relationship with food, particularly when eating becomes associated with pain, discomfort, anxiety, or fear of adverse physical reactions. Over time, this can contribute to food-related anxiety, restrictive eating patterns, hypervigilance around bodily sensations, and difficulties navigating social situations involving food. My approach acknowledges the genuine physical challenges associated with these conditions while providing psychological support to help you navigate their emotional impact, reduce distress around eating, and develop a greater sense of safety and confidence in your relationship with food and your body.
Every part of you has developed for a reason. Even the parts that feel anxious, self-critical, perfectionistic, and emotionally distant have often been working incredibly hard to protect you. Rather than trying to fight or eliminate these parts, we work together to understand them with curiosity and compassion, helping them find new ways of supporting you that no longer require you to stay in survival mode.
Rather than focusing solely on symptoms or changing behaviours, my approach aims to help you understand the underlying factors that have shaped your experiences and your relationship with yourself. Together, we work to build self-compassion, process difficult experiences, develop healthier ways of managing emotions, and create a more peaceful relationship with your body, food, and the people around you.
Treatment is always tailored to your individual needs and goals, drawing on evidence-based approaches including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Schema Therapy, Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM). Above all, I aim to provide a space where you can feel safe, accepted, and understood—a place where healing isn't about fixing what is "wrong" with you, but about understanding what has happened to you, reconnecting with yourself, and moving towards a life that feels more meaningful, authentic, and fulfilling.
EMDR is an evidence-based therapy used to treat PTSD and other trauma-related concerns by reducing the emotional intensity of distressing memories by enabling the brain to reprocess them in a more adaptive manner. During EMDR sessions, bilateral stimulation (guided eye movements, tapping, or alternating sounds) is used while recalling elements of a traumatic memory. With careful preparation and resourcing, clients often discover that previously triggering memories become less overwhelming. This allows them to respond to present situations with a greater sense of calm and flexibility.
Schema Therapy is an integrative approach that helps identify and change early maladaptive schemas — deep patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving formed when core emotional needs were not met in childhood. These schemas often influence current relationships, emotions, and coping strategies. Schema Therapy uses techniques like cognitive restructuring, imagery work, and experiential exercises to challenge unhelpful patterns and develop a nurturing sense of self. It is particularly effective for long-standing emotional difficulties, personality disorders, and complex trauma. By addressing the root causes of these patterns, it helps clients relate to themselves and others in healthier ways.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy helps people understand and work with the different “parts” of themselves that influence their emotions, thoughts, and behaviours. These parts can develop protective roles in response to difficult or overwhelming experiences, for example, becoming highly self-critical, anxious, perfectionistic, withdrawn, or emotionally reactive.
IFS helps you approach these parts with curiosity and compassion rather than trying to suppress or fight against them. Therapy involves identifying different parts, understanding what they are trying to protect you from, and exploring the experiences and emotions that may sit beneath their reactions. Particular attention is given to developing greater access to the “Self” – a calmer, more compassionate, and grounded state from which difficult emotions and internal conflicts can be approached.
Through this process, IFS aims to reduce internal conflict, strengthen self-understanding, and help protective patterns become less rigid or overwhelming. IFS is can help to address trauma, attachment and relationship difficulties, longstanding emotional patterns, self-criticism, and difficulties with emotion regulation.
Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM) is a practical, supportive therapy that combines specialist clinical knowledge with a trusting therapeutic relationship. Originally developed for the treatment of eating disorders, particularly anorexia nervosa, SSCM focuses on understanding your individual difficulties while supporting gradual, achievable changes in eating, health, and everyday functioning.
SSCM is collaborative and tailored to your needs, providing a space to explore concerns, strengthen motivation, build practical coping strategies, and work towards goals that are meaningful to you. Rather than following a highly prescriptive approach, SSCM balances specialist guidance with supportive psychotherapy, recognising the importance of feeling understood, respected, and actively involved in your treatment.
Beau has a particular interest treating childhood and attachment-related trauma using EMDR and IFS. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based therapy used to reduce the emotional disturbance of traumatic memories that cause ongoing distress, nightmares, and somatic symptoms associated with trauma. Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a parts-based therapy that helps people understand and work with different parts of themselves, particularly those that developed to cope with difficult or painful experiences.
Beau provides therapy for clients experiencing restrictive eating, sensory difficulties related to food, body image concerns, and specific eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).He has a particular interest in helping boys and men address their eating and body image issues, as well as individuals with medical conditions that affect eating, such as Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), coeliac disease, histamine intolerance, and other food intolerances.
Beau uses a neuro-affirming and strengths-based approach to support autistic and ADHD clients in navigating their sensory and communication differences, particularly those experiencing school/work-related stress and burnout, rejection sensitivity, and low self-esteem, with the aim to develop greater self-compassion, emotional resilience, and confidence in their neurodivergent identity.
Difficulties faced by boys and men are often misrepresented or misunderstood. Beau uses a practical and engaging approach to support boys and men with concerns such as body image, sexuality, low self-esteem, understanding emotions, and forming healthy relationships.
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