This isThe majority of clients coming to see me were in the middle of the disordered eating spectrum, clients who have a long history of swinging from dieting to bingeing and back again and meet most or all the criteria for Binge Eating Disorder and clients with Bulimia.

I have always worked alongside a Nutritional Therapist and this is now an essential component of the program as we can address both the food and the feelings simultaneously. That’s why this program is called the 360⁰ Freedom. The program delivers freedom from food obsession, freedom from the revolving door of diet programs, freedom from all the underlying physical symptoms a disordered relationship with food brings with it, and most of all freedom from shame and guilt, which usually stems right back to the client’s childhood and whatever adverse event or experience taught them how to self-soothe with food in the first place.

In 2017, two things happened. First, we as a family moved back to Dublin from Cork and second, I realised I was getting burned out from working with disordered eating clients all the time – it’s heavy work when it is all you do, because of course so much of the eating symptoms are driven by underlying trauma and adverse experiences in the past. Add to this the fact that I couldn’t see all the clients who wanted to attend because I was that rare thing - a specialist therapist in this area – and I was ready to quit!

A couple of long-dark-nights-of-the-soul later where I seriously considered giving up therapy, I realised that I could continue to help clients, and in fact help far more clients, if I trained other therapists in my program. I trained as a Trainer, took a year long business mastermind program, and began putting my training program together.

Eating Freely and the 360⁰ Freedom Program have continued to grow and we now have a team of certified Eating Freely Therapists in Ireland, and some also working online with clients as far away as Canada, the USA and South Africa, and Eating Freely is now a separate business with a small team working together to bring our program to as many clients as possible.

All of our Licensed Therapists are fully qualified Counsellors, Therapists, LSW’s or Psychologists. We only train fully qualified professionals, our training carries CPD points from 4 international bodies, and it meets the criteria for specialist training to work with disordered eating – specifically Binge Eating Disorder and Bulimia.

It is our vision to create a vibrant, mutually supportive and reciprocal network of clients and therapists who together, become strong enough to drive home the messages that diets do not work, it is absolutely possible to move on from your past, and that self-love is the key to transformational change.

Warmly



Emma



Emma Murphy MIACP
Certified Eating Disorder Specialist