Eating Disorders: Signs, Types and Support Options
Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions involving significant disturbances in eating behaviour and in the thoughts and feelings around it. They can affect physical health as well as psychological wellbeing, and they affect people across different ages, genders and body sizes.
This page explains what eating disorders are, describes the main types, sets out signs that may warrant professional assessment, explains why medical as well as psychological assessment can matter, and covers what treatment can involve — including when specialised or urgent care is needed. It contains no self-test, no numbers to measure yourself against, and nothing that could be followed as an instruction.
What Are Eating Disorders?
The National Institute of Mental Health describes eating disorders as serious illnesses marked by severe disturbances in a person’s eating behaviours. Many people think about their health, weight or appearance from time to time; in an eating disorder, that becomes a fixation or preoccupation with weight loss, body weight or shape, and with controlling food intake — and it takes over.
They are mental health conditions, and they are also conditions that affect the body. NIMH states that eating disorders are serious and can be life-threatening, and that people with them are at higher risk of medical complications and of co-occurring mental illnesses including depression, anxiety and substance use disorders, which can make the eating disorder worse.
Their effects reach across a life: psychological wellbeing, physical health, relationships, study and work, and ordinary day-to-day functioning. Eating stops being something a person does and becomes something that governs them.
Not simply "a bad relationship with food"
That phrase is common, and it is not adequate. It describes something most people could claim on a difficult week, and it cannot distinguish that from an illness that NIMH describes as potentially life-threatening. Eating disorders are diagnosable conditions with psychological and physical consequences, and framing them as a wellness problem is part of why people delay getting help.
They are also not fundamentally about vanity or appearance, even where concerns about weight and shape are prominent. ARFID, described below, does not involve beliefs about weight or body shape at all. Treating body image as the defining feature of every eating disorder misses a substantial number of people.
NIMH is also clear that eating disorders can be treated successfully, and that early detection and treatment matter for a full recovery. Outcomes vary between individuals, and nothing on this page promises any particular one.
Can Someone Have an Eating Disorder at Any Body Size?
Yes. An eating disorder cannot be established or ruled out by looking at someone, and a person does not have to be visibly underweight for what they are experiencing to be serious.
Serious restrictive eating-disorder symptoms occur in people whose weight is not below any particular threshold. Bulimia and binge-eating disorder are not defined by body size either. And someone in a larger body may be assumed to be overeating, or praised for weight loss that is a symptom — both of which delay recognition and make it harder to ask for help.
This page carries no body mass index calculator, no weight or BMI figures, and no thresholds of any kind. Body measurements can form part of a professional medical assessment, interpreted in context by someone qualified to do it. Turned into numbers on a web page they become something to measure yourself against, which on this subject does harm.
The practical consequence is simple: if eating, food or your body is taking up a great deal of your thinking and affecting your life, that is worth professional assessment regardless of what you weigh or what anyone else assumes from looking at you.
What Are Some Common Eating Disorders?
These are short orientations, not diagnostic criteria, and the differences between them are not something to work out from a web page. Descriptions are kept at a level that helps recognition without supplying any detail that could be acted on.
Anorexia nervosa
Involves restricting what is eaten to an extent that makes it difficult to maintain adequate nutrition, often alongside intense concern about weight or shape and a distorted perception of one's own body. The NHS describes it as trying to control weight by not eating enough food, exercising too much, or both. It is not "wanting to be thin" — it is an illness with among the most serious physical consequences of any mental health condition, and it can be present at a range of body weights.
Bulimia nervosa
Involves recurrent episodes of eating with a sense of loss of control, followed by behaviours intended to compensate for what was eaten and to prevent weight gain. Those behaviours can be physically harmful, and this page does not describe them. Concern about weight and shape is often prominent. Body weight is frequently within a range that draws no attention, which is one reason bulimia can go unnoticed for a long time.
Binge-eating disorder
Involves recurrent episodes of eating an unusually large amount with a sense of loss of control, and significant distress about it. Unlike bulimia, it is not defined by regular compensatory behaviour afterwards. It is the distress and the loss of control that matter — not any quantity, and this page gives none.
Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)
Involves avoiding certain foods or limiting how much is eaten, to a degree that causes clinically significant consequences. Crucially, the NHS notes that beliefs about weight or body shape are not why people develop ARFID. Reasons can include negative responses to the smell, taste or texture of foods, a response to an upsetting past experience with food such as choking or being sick, or simply not feeling hungry or having little interest in eating.
Other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED)
Where symptoms are clinically significant but do not exactly fit the expected pattern for any one specific eating disorder. The NHS notes that OSFED is the most common eating disorder — which is worth stating plainly, because "it does not quite match what I read about" is a common reason people conclude they do not qualify for help. It is not a lesser category.
One caution on ARFID: it is not the same as being a picky eater. Many people dislike particular foods, textures or smells, and that is ordinary. ARFID is distinguished by the clinical significance of the consequences — nutritional, physical, psychological or social — not by having preferences.
Working out which of these applies to a particular person is a clinical task, and this page deliberately offers no comparison table or checklist to attempt it with. If eating is causing you difficulty, that is reason enough to seek assessment; you do not need to identify the category first.
How Can an Eating Disorder Show Up?
The following are possible signs that may warrant professional assessment. They are not a checklist, there is no number of them that means anything, and each can occur for reasons other than an eating disorder.
Thoughts and feelings
Spending a great deal of time thinking about food, eating, weight or body shape
Significant fear or anxiety around eating
Marked distress about food or about one's body
Feeling that eating is something to be controlled, earned or compensated for
Changes in mood — becoming withdrawn, anxious or low
Behaviour
Rigid or distressing rules and routines around food
Eating much less than is needed
Recurrent episodes of eating with a sense of loss of control
Behaviours intended to compensate for eating
Exercising in a way that feels compulsory rather than chosen
Avoiding eating with other people, or avoiding occasions where food is involved
Withdrawing from things that used to matter
Physical health
Feeling cold, tired or dizzy
Feeling the heart racing, or feeling faint
Digestive difficulties
Pains, tingling or numbness in the arms and legs
Changes in periods, or delayed signs of puberty in young people
Weakness, or other effects of not getting enough nutrition
These physical signs are on the page because they matter — they can indicate that the body is under strain and that medical assessment is needed, not only psychological support. They are not specific to eating disorders and none of them establishes one.
On screening questionnaires
Short screening questionnaires exist and are sometimes used to help decide whether fuller assessment would be useful. They are not diagnoses, they should not be the sole basis for deciding whether someone has an eating disorder, and a reassuring score is not a reason to stop worrying. There is no such questionnaire on this page, and none has been added.
What May Contribute to Eating Disorders?
The NHS states plainly that the exact cause of eating disorders is unknown. What is understood is that they arise from a combination of factors rather than any single one, and NIMH funds research across genetic, biological, behavioural, psychological and social influences to understand why some people develop them and others do not.
Family and personal history
The NHS notes increased likelihood where a person or a family member has a history of eating disorders, depression, or alcohol or drug misuse.
Psychological factors
Anxiety, low self-esteem, perfectionism or an obsessive personality style are among the factors the NHS lists. These raise likelihood across populations; none of them causes an eating disorder on its own.
Comments and criticism
Having been criticised for eating habits, body shape or weight is among the factors the NHS identifies — which is worth knowing before commenting on anyone's body.
Social and environmental pressures
Pressure to be slim, whether from wider society or from particular settings, is relevant for some people; the NHS names contexts such as ballet, modelling and elite sport. Social media and body-image pressures are part of the environment, but the relationship is complex and no single platform or influence causes eating disorders.
Difficult experiences
The NHS includes experience of sexual abuse among the factors associated with increased likelihood. Many people with eating disorders have no such history, and many people with such a history never develop one.
Two things this list is not. It is not a way to work out what caused any individual's eating disorder — that is neither possible from a page nor usually necessary for getting help. And it is not an indictment of families. Older models that treated parents as the cause have not held up, and families are frequently an important part of support and, for younger people, of evidence-based treatment itself.
How Are Eating Disorders Professionally Assessed?
Assessment covers both mind and body. The NHS describes a doctor asking about eating habits and how the person is feeling, checking overall health, and referring on to an eating disorder specialist or a team of specialists.
Depending on the situation, assessment may consider eating behaviours and patterns, the thoughts and concerns around food and body, physical health symptoms, other mental health symptoms, relevant medical history, medications or substances, current physical stability, risk of self-harm, and the effect all of it is having on everyday life. For children and young people, growth and development are relevant too.
What matters for someone reading this is that assessment is a professional judgement drawing on several kinds of information, and that the physical side of it is not optional.
The NHS adds a point worth repeating: it can be very hard to admit there is a problem and ask for help, and it may be easier to bring a friend or someone close along to an appointment. NIMH notes that early detection and treatment are important.
Why Physical-Health Assessment Can Matter
Eating disorders can have medical consequences, and some of them are serious. NIMH describes eating disorders as potentially life-threatening and notes the higher risk of medical complications. This is the part that psychological support alone cannot cover.
Depending on the individual situation, appropriate care may involve assessment of cardiovascular health, hydration, nutritional status, blood tests and other physical indicators, carried out and interpreted by a medical professional. The NHS notes that regular health checks may be part of treatment where an eating disorder is affecting physical health.
Why there are no numbers on this page
This page gives no thresholds — not for body weight or BMI, heart rate, blood pressure, electrolytes, body temperature, rate of weight change or amount eaten. That is deliberate. Published as figures they stop being clinical judgements and become targets: something to stay above, or to get below, or to use as evidence that things are not yet serious enough to warrant help. Whether someone is physically stable is a clinical assessment, and it is not one anybody should be attempting on themselves.
For the same reason, body size does not determine urgency. Serious medical complications occur across eating-disorder presentations and at a range of body weights, and "not thin enough to be in danger" is a conclusion that has harmed a great many people.
When Urgent Help May Be Needed
Most people reading this page are not in an emergency. This section is here because eating disorders can produce situations that are, and because those situations need a different response from a scheduled appointment.
Physical warning signs
Fainting or collapse, severe weakness, chest pain, difficulty breathing, confusion, a seizure, signs of severe dehydration, blood in vomit, being unable to keep fluids down, or any serious or rapidly worsening physical symptom all need urgent medical assessment. Go to the nearest hospital or emergency room, or contact emergency services. Do not wait to see whether it settles, and do not wait for a counselling appointment.
Mental health and safety
If you are having thoughts of self-harm or suicide, or someone is in immediate danger, go to the nearest hospital or emergency room, where you can see a psychiatrist, counsellor or therapist in person. Do not wait for a scheduled session. Involving a family member or friend who can be with you helps.
Booking a session through LifeHetu is a scheduled conversation with a practitioner at a future time. It is not an emergency service, it is not medical care, and it is not the route for anything above.
What Can Treatment for Eating Disorders Involve?
Treatment depends on which eating disorder is involved, the person's age, their psychological needs, their physical health, how severe things are, and their individual circumstances. The NHS describes treatment as usually including a talking therapy, with the specific approach depending on the disorder — and, where physical health is affected, regular health checks alongside.
Psychological treatment
Eating-disorder-focused psychological therapy is the core of treatment for most people, and the approaches recommended differ by disorder and by age. For adults with anorexia the NHS describes several distinct talking therapies that may be offered, including cognitive behavioural therapy and other specialist approaches developed specifically for eating disorders; for bulimia and binge-eating disorder, guided self-help programmes and, in some cases, group therapy may form part of it. For children and young people, family-based approaches are central, with families actively involved in treatment.
These are structured, disorder-specific treatments delivered by professionals trained in them, and general counselling is not the same thing. Specific guideline-recommended therapies have their own protocol lengths; those are treatment structures rather than predictions about any individual, and this page turns none of them into a timeline to expect.
Medical and nutritional care
For many people, psychological treatment alone is not the whole of it. Medical monitoring may be needed where physical health is affected, and nutritional support guided by an appropriately qualified professional is often part of specialist care.
This page provides none of that, and deliberately publishes no meal plan, no calorie figure, no food list, no foods to avoid, and no weight target in either direction. Where someone is significantly malnourished, increasing intake can itself carry medical risk and needs professional supervision — it is not something to manage from a website. LifeHetu does not provide nutritional care, does not monitor anyone medically, and does not restore anyone's weight.
Coordinated and specialist care
Eating disorders frequently need more than one kind of professional working together — psychological, medical, psychiatric and nutritional — and the NHS describes referral to an eating disorder specialist or a team of specialists, who then take responsibility for care and for coordinating support for any other conditions the person has. Some people need hospital treatment.
This matters for how the practitioner listing further down this page should be read. General adult counselling can be a useful part of someone's support. For an eating disorder it is frequently not sufficient on its own, and this page does not pretend otherwise.
Medication
Medication has a limited and specific place in eating-disorder care, differing considerably by diagnosis and circumstance, and it is often directed at co-occurring conditions rather than the eating disorder itself. Those decisions belong to an appropriately qualified prescribing professional who has assessed the individual.
No medication is named here, no doses, no instructions to start or stop anything, and nothing about appetite suppressants or weight-loss medication, which have no place on this page. LifeHetu does not prescribe.
Both the NHS and NIMH state that people can recover from an eating disorder and that eating disorders can be treated successfully. The NHS adds that it may take time and that recovery is different for everyone. That is the honest position: effective treatments exist, outcomes vary between individuals, and no timeline here applies to anyone in particular.
One note on exercise. Physical activity is often recommended for general wellbeing, and that advice does not transfer safely to this page — compulsive or excessive exercise can itself be part of an eating disorder, and what is appropriate depends on a person's physical state. Any change in activity belongs in a conversation with the professionals involved in someone's care.
How Can You Support Someone You Are Concerned About?
The NHS notes how difficult this is: a person may not recognise they have an eating disorder, and may deny it or become secretive or defensive. What helps is usually steadier and less confrontational than instinct suggests.
Lead with concern, not appearance
Say that you are worried about them and why, in terms of how they seem and how they are doing — not in terms of how they look.
Do not comment on weight or body — at all
Not negatively, and not positively either. "You look well" and "you look healthy now" can land as observations about weight and can be genuinely distressing. Criticism of eating habits, shape or weight is among the factors the NHS associates with increased risk.
Listen
Without arguing, negotiating about food, or trying to correct what they believe about themselves in that moment.
Encourage professional assessment
The NHS suggests encouraging them to see a doctor and offering to go along. Practical help with arranging and getting to an appointment is often the most useful thing available to you.
Take physical warning signs seriously
If someone seems physically unwell — faint, very weak, confused, or with any of the signs above — that needs urgent medical attention regardless of what they say about it.
Do not police them
Monitoring every bite, forcing someone to eat, confiscating food, weighing them, or watching the bathroom does not treat an eating disorder. It damages trust, it can drive behaviour further out of sight, and it is not your job. Where someone is a minor or is medically unsafe, that is a reason to involve professionals rather than to take control yourself.
If You Are Concerned About a Child or Teenager
Eating disorders often begin in adolescence or young adulthood, and assessment and treatment for young people are different from adult care. Growth and development are part of what is assessed, family-based approaches are central to treatment rather than optional, and referral pathways run through services designed for that age group.
The practitioners listed further down this page offer Adult Counselling, and that is not the right pathway for a child or teenager. Child & Adolescent Counselling is where to start, and the child psychologist category lists practitioners who work with younger clients. Where physical health may be affected, medical assessment should not wait.
This page also offers parents no feeding or refeeding instructions. Supporting a young person's eating as part of treatment is something done with professional guidance, not from a web page.
What LifeHetu Does, and What It Does Not
LifeHetu is a technology platform. It lists independent practitioners, publishes their professional profiles, and enables online session booking and payment. The practitioners listed are not employed by LifeHetu, and the professional relationship in a session is between you and the practitioner.
LifeHetu does not assess or diagnose eating disorders, provide eating-disorder treatment, monitor anyone medically, provide nutritional care or meal plans, restore anyone's weight, prescribe medication, decide whether anyone needs hospital care, or coordinate multidisciplinary treatment. It does not certify anyone as an eating-disorder specialist. Where this page describes what assessment and treatment involve, it is describing what appropriately qualified professionals do.
The previous version of this page advertised nutritional counselling and support groups. LifeHetu provides neither, and on this subject that is not a small correction to make.
Where to Find Professional Support
LifeHetu lists independent practitioners and lets you book an online session with one of them. It does not maintain a list of eating-disorder specialists — practitioner records carry the services someone offers, not verified clinical specialisms — and for a condition that may need coordinated medical and nutritional care alongside psychological treatment, a general listing is a starting point rather than a care plan.
How Online Booking Through LifeHetu Works
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Browse who is listed, with search and filters. Nothing is behind a sign-up.
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Sessions Are Booked Online
Sessions booked through LifeHetu are online, and LifeHetu provides no medical assessment or physical-health monitoring of any kind. After connecting with a practitioner, you may discuss directly whether additional or in-person care is appropriate for your situation. Any such arrangement is not managed through LifeHetu.
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Questions About Eating Disorders
NIMH describes eating disorders as serious illnesses marked by severe disturbances in a person's eating behaviours — where concern about health, weight or appearance becomes a fixation on weight loss, body weight or shape and on controlling food intake. They are mental health conditions that also affect physical health; NIMH notes they are serious and can be life-threatening, and that people with them face higher risk of medical complications and of co-occurring depression, anxiety and substance use disorders.
The most commonly described are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder, along with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) and other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED). The NHS notes that OSFED — where symptoms are clinically significant but do not exactly fit one specific category — is actually the most common. Working out which applies is a clinical task, not something to determine from a page.
Yes. An eating disorder cannot be established or ruled out by appearance, and a person does not have to be visibly underweight for it to be serious. Serious restrictive symptoms occur in people whose weight is not below any particular threshold, and bulimia and binge-eating disorder are not defined by body size either. This page carries no BMI calculator and no weight thresholds, because published as numbers they become something to measure yourself against.
No. Anorexia involves restricting intake to an extent that makes adequate nutrition difficult to maintain, often alongside intense concern about weight or shape and a distorted perception of one's own body — and it carries among the most serious physical consequences of any mental health condition. Reducing it to wanting to be thin misrepresents both the illness and how much difficulty someone with it is in.
Both involve recurrent episodes of eating with a sense of loss of control. In bulimia, those episodes are followed by behaviours intended to compensate for what was eaten; binge-eating disorder is not defined by regular compensatory behaviour afterwards. Distress and loss of control are central to both. Neither is defined by any particular quantity, and this page gives none.
No. Eating more than usual at a celebration, or sometimes eating in response to emotions, is ordinary human behaviour and not a disorder. Binge-eating disorder involves recurrent episodes with a genuine sense of loss of control and significant distress, assessed as a broader clinical pattern. It is also not the same thing as living in a larger body, and treatment for it is not weight loss.
Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder involves avoiding certain foods or limiting how much is eaten to a degree that causes clinically significant consequences. The NHS is explicit that beliefs about weight or body shape are not why people develop ARFID — reasons can include negative responses to smell, taste or texture, a response to an upsetting experience with food such as choking, or simply little interest in eating. It is not the same as being a picky eater; what distinguishes it is the significance of the consequences.
Through professional assessment covering both mental and physical health. The NHS describes a doctor asking about eating habits and how you are feeling, checking overall health, and referring on to an eating disorder specialist or team. Short screening questionnaires exist and can help decide whether fuller assessment would be useful, but they are not diagnoses and should not be the sole basis for deciding whether someone has an eating disorder — including when the result is reassuring. There is no test on this page.
Because eating disorders affect the body as well as the mind, and some of those effects are serious. Depending on the situation, care may involve assessment of cardiovascular health, hydration, nutritional status and blood tests, carried out and interpreted by a medical professional, with regular health checks where physical health is affected. Body size does not determine urgency — serious complications occur across eating-disorder presentations and at a range of body weights.
Fainting or collapse, severe weakness, chest pain, difficulty breathing, confusion, a seizure, signs of severe dehydration, blood in vomit, being unable to keep fluids down, or any serious or rapidly worsening physical symptom need urgent medical assessment — go to the nearest hospital or emergency room, or contact emergency services. If you are having thoughts of self-harm or suicide, or someone is in immediate danger, the same applies. Booking a session through LifeHetu is a scheduled conversation at a future time; it is not an emergency service and it is not medical care.
No — treatment depends on the disorder, the person's age, their psychological needs, their physical health and their circumstances. The NHS describes treatment as usually including a talking therapy, with different approaches recommended for different eating disorders, plus regular health checks where physical health is affected. For children and young people, family-based approaches are central. Care often involves more than one kind of professional working together, and some people need hospital treatment. Both the NHS and NIMH state that people can recover, while noting it takes time and differs for everyone.
Counselling may be one component of support, but eating disorders can require specialised psychological, medical and nutritional care depending on the individual situation, and general Adult Counselling is frequently not sufficient on its own. LifeHetu lists independent practitioners and enables online booking; it does not assess or diagnose eating disorders, provide nutritional care, monitor anyone medically or coordinate specialist treatment. If you are seeking eating-disorder-specific care, check what a practitioner actually offers before booking.
Lead with concern rather than appearance, and avoid commenting on weight or body shape in either direction — "you look well" can land as an observation about weight. Listen without arguing or negotiating about food. Encourage them to see a doctor and offer to go with them; the NHS notes it can be very hard to admit there is a problem. Take physical warning signs seriously. And do not try to police it — monitoring meals, forcing someone to eat, or watching the bathroom damages trust and does not treat the illness. Where someone is a minor or medically unsafe, involve professionals.
Sources & References
- National Institute of Mental Health — Eating DisordersThe definition of eating disorders as serious illnesses marked by severe disturbances in eating behaviours; that these can become a fixation on weight loss, body weight or shape and on controlling food intake; that eating disorders are serious and can be life-threatening; the higher risk of medical complications and of co-occurring depression, anxiety and substance use disorders; that eating disorders can be treated successfully and that early detection and treatment matter; and that research spans genetic, biological, behavioural, psychological and social factors.
- NHS — Eating disordersThe descriptions of anorexia, bulimia and binge-eating disorder; that OSFED is the most common eating disorder; that beliefs about weight or body shape are not why people develop ARFID and the reasons the NHS gives for it; the psychological, behavioural and physical signs listed; the factors associated with increased likelihood and that the exact cause is unknown; the assessment and referral pathway; the guidance on supporting someone else; that treatment usually includes a talking therapy with health checks where physical health is affected; and that people can recover though it takes time and differs for everyone.
- NHS — Treatment for anorexia nervosaThat several distinct eating-disorder-specific talking therapies may be offered to adults, that treatment differs for those under 18 with referral to children and young people’s services, that some people need hospital treatment, and that guideline-recommended therapies have their own protocol structures.
- World Health Organization — ICD-11 classificationThat anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder are classified among feeding or eating disorders.
- NIMHANS — National Institute of Mental Health and NeurosciencesIndian context for mental health services and where in-person clinical care is accessed.
A note on review scope: this page is reviewed by Mahalakshmi Rajagopal for psychological accuracy. It is not medically reviewed. The statements here about physical health, medical assessment and urgent warning signs rest on the authoritative sources listed above rather than on that review, and nothing on this page is a substitute for assessment by a medical professional.
Explore Practitioners Offering Adult Counselling
Eating disorders can require specialised psychological care and, in some cases, coordinated medical and nutritional support. The practitioners below currently offer Adult Counselling through LifeHetu. This listing does not mean that every practitioner specialises in eating disorders or provides eating-disorder-specific treatment. Review each practitioner’s professional background, qualifications and listed services carefully.
Adult Counselling is general counselling. For an eating disorder it may be one useful component of support, and it is frequently not sufficient on its own — specialist psychological treatment, medical assessment and nutritional care may all be needed, depending on the individual situation. LifeHetu does not certify anyone as an eating-disorder specialist, does not rank practitioners and does not match you to one. If relevant experience is not clear from a profile, do not assume that Adult Counselling alone represents specialist eating-disorder care.
These practitioners offer Adult Counselling. If you are concerned about a child or teenager, see the pathway above rather than booking from this list.
9 practitioners offering Adult Counselling
Mr Abhishek Faria
6 years in practice
Doctoral Candidate at California Southern University
Online session: Video · Phone Call · Chat
Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
Fee: ₹1800 per session
Ms Priya Parwani
6 years in practice
Bachelor's in Psychology Master's in Psychology PG Diploma in Counselling Psychology
Online session: Video
Languages: English, Hindi
Fee: ₹1000 per session
Mrs Mahalakshmi Rajagopal
28 years in practice
MSW, MSc
Online session: Video
Languages: English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam
Fee: ₹1800 per session
Ms Sonali Sikdar
16 years in practice
Online session: Video
Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi
Fee: ₹1500 per session
Dr. S.S. Saini
10 years in practice
M.Phil (Clinical Psychology), Ph.D (Clinical Psychology),PGDCBM with 10 years experience
Online session: Video · Phone Call
Languages: English, Hindi, Punjabi
Fee: ₹1500 per session
Dr Jignesh Ahir
11 years in practice
Masters in Applied Psychology, M.Phil. Ph.D in Psychology Research Gold Medalist
Online session: Video · Call · Chat
Languages: English, Hindi, Gujrati
Fee: ₹2000 per session
Ms Parinaaz Irani
8 years in practice
Online session: Video
Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
Fee: ₹1500 per session
Irshad Md
5 years in practice
Online session: Video
Languages: English, Hindi, Telugu, Urdu
Fee: ₹2000 per session
Dr Rainy Bhuyan
12 years in practice
MPT Neurosciences and Psychosomatic Disorders, Internationally Certified Aura Reader
Online session: Video
Languages: English, Hindi, Gujarati
Fee: ₹1000 per session
Fees and availability shown come from each practitioner’s own current settings. Read more about Adult Counselling.
What to Consider When Choosing a Practitioner
Their actual professional role and qualification
What a practitioner is qualified to do differs, and it does not follow from offering Adult Counselling. Medical assessment and prescribing sit with particular professions.
Whether eating-disorder experience is explicitly listed
If a profile describes relevant training or experience with eating disorders, that is worth weighing. If it does not, ask rather than assume — LifeHetu has not verified it either way.
Whether eating-disorder-specific treatment is offered
Disorder-specific psychological treatments are distinct from general counselling and carry their own training. Look for them named, and ask if they are not.
Whether other care may also be needed
Depending on symptoms and physical health, counselling may need to be coordinated with appropriate medical, psychiatric or nutritional care. That coordination is not something LifeHetu arranges.
Services, years in practice and approach
What you can actually book with them, when they started practising, and how they describe their own work.
Languages, fee and availability
The languages they offer sessions in, the current fee, and when they have time open.
Asking a practitioner directly about their experience with eating disorders, and about what they can and cannot offer, is a reasonable question and a good practitioner will expect it. This listing is not ranked or scored, and no one on it has been assessed by LifeHetu for eating disorders in particular.
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