Dr Elizabeth Roberts

I can help you through the first difficult steps of your recovery journey and weight restoration, support you through your transition to more relaxed eating and living and maintaining recovery.

I can help you in the following ways: formulate a nutritional plan for recovery, meal planning and practical solutions, identify strategies for managing social occasions, help you identify barriers to renourishing your body and solve problems together, help you navigate and manage physical symptoms of an eating disorder, such as constipation, bloating and reflux, help you navigate additional nutritional problems, such as coeliac disease, diabetes and inflammatory and bowel problems, return to normal and more intuitive eating, develop a plan to introduce physical activity with adequate nutrition, explore difficult foods and adopt a plan for trying these out, identify a future plan and give you the tools to keep you well and prevent relapse.

I have over 20 years' experience working with adults as well as children and young people with eating disorders, disordered eating and other eating difficulties. For parents, rest assured that I have more than 8 years' experience consulting through the Family Based Treatment for Anorexia (FBT-AN) approach and extensive skills working with parents to support their child with weight restoration. Families have told me that my warm, compassionate approach has helped ease their child’s anxiety. Many clients have told me that understanding the thoughts, experiences and feelings that derive from the famine response have helped them in their recovery.

I can also help you explore dietary rules, how these help or hinder you, and work towards trying out a more flexible way of eating; help you to distinguish between thoughts, feelings and behaviours that are driven by the eating disorder versus those that truly support your physical and mental health and wellbeing; support and reassure you through the difficult return of hunger cues and drivers to eat (and help you understand what is happening and why); establish a regular eating pattern of the right foods for you to manage overeating (binge eating) episodes and ultimately, support you to break free from the dieting cycle.

Most clients opt for a package of appointments, with or without meal planning, and I also offer a payment plan, so you can spread the cost.

What others say

Early contact with Elizabeth made all the difference. Not all children are the same, and having a personalised eating plan for our daughter was very helpful. We have found she struggled to put on weight with a standard eating plan and so having more personalised advice on how to increase her food intake without distressing her too much was great. We have found this has barely been covered in the normal CAMHS sessions we have. (Bernice)

It was helpful to see Elizabeth to support our daughter to make the changes she needs. It was helpful to both me and my child to have a fresh look at how to think about and view food/eating. Both during early re-feeding and maintaining of weight. As a parent, I needed the support early on to know what I should be doing but perhaps more crucially, towards the end of treatment, for my child (and me) to feel able to eat more normally and think about food in a more positive, less scary way." (Ella)

Families and young people often trust you and your expertise in a way that they just can't trust anyone else. (CAMHS worker)

You are always well informed about the evidence base and research. You are incredibly passionate about your field and that comes through in your work. You're clear and calm with families even when it's tricky. (Paediatrician)