Emotional Eating Recovery: Integrating Psychotherapy, Trauma Healing and Carolyn Costin’s 8 Keys to Recovery

I am excited to share that in addition to being a PACFA Registered Clinical Psychotherapist specialising in emotional eating, disordered eating, and complex trauma, I am now a Certified Eating Disorder Coach through the Carolyn Costin Institute (CCI).

This training was extremely rigorous. It took over eighteen months to complete and included extensive coursework, supervision, and direct mentorship from internationally recognised eating disorder expert Carolyn Costin.

For those familiar with the field of eating disorder recovery, Carolyn Costin is one of the most respected voices globally. She is the author of the bestselling book Eight Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder, a foundational text used in treatment centres and recovery communities around the world.

Becoming a Carolyn Costin Institute Certified Eating Disorder Coach means I now integrate the Eight Keys to Recovery framework into my psychotherapy and emotional eating coaching work with women.

What Makes My Approach to Emotional Eating Recovery Different

Many approaches to emotional eating focus primarily on behaviour change, meal plans, or symptom management.

While these can sometimes help in the short term, they often miss the deeper relational and developmental roots of disordered eating.

In my work, we explore the underlying drivers of emotional eating, which often include:

• childhood emotional neglect

• mother-daughter relationship wounds

• attachment trauma

• complex PTSD

• chronic shame and the feeling of not being enough

• people pleasing and self abandonment

• difficulty regulating emotions

Food behaviours rarely exist in isolation.

They are often creative survival strategies developed in response to early relational environments where emotional needs were not consistently met.

This is why I combine depth psychotherapy, trauma healing, mind-body eating coaching, and Carolyn Costin’s Eight Keys to Recovery framework. Learn more about my One to One 8 Keys Coaching Program.

Learn more Carolyn Costin & the Carolyn Costin Institute here:

Carolyn was the Founder of Monte Nido Eating Disorder Treatment Centre. She is known for bringing care of the soul, yoga and meditation into eating disorder treatment.

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