Eating Distress

Alongside her nutritional therapy degree at Westminster University, Rhian Jones completed additional courses in eating disorders and eating distress.

Rhian’s final year dissertation focused on the high incidence of eating disorders in elite athletes and the role of advice provided by coaches.

As a practicing nutritional therapist Rhian has regular clinics at the eating disorders’s clinic at MIND and at a GP surgery in Hamersmith where she specialises and works with a wide variety of patients with eating disorders and eating distress which range from anorexia and bulimia to obesity.

This clinical experience has deepened Rhian’s knowledge and understanding of the factors which can contribute to an individual’s distress around food.

Eating disorders and symptoms of eating distress are increasingly common in today’s society in which food can have psycho spiritual and emotional associations for individuals.

Rhian works with a variety of patients, from those who have simply lost their way with food to others who have suffered with eating disorders for a number of years.

When asked how she distinguishes the different eating difficulties, Rhian asserts that the diagnosis is less important than listening to individual patients own story and identifying the patients unique thoughts and fears around food.

Rhian’s clinical experience has demonstrated that this is fundamental to long term recovery.