Medication for eating disorders blog 1: Are medications useful for eating disorders?

By Deborah Etienne-Ward Psychotropic medication refers to medication that has the purpose of managing mental illness by altering mood,...

November 25
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Psychologist wanted!

BodyMatters is thrilled to announce that we will be adding another therapist to our expanding team. If you, or someone you...

June 18
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Changes to the Diagnostic Criteria for Eating Disorders: From DSM-IV-TR TO DSM-V

The chapter on Feeding and Eating Disorders in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...

March 15
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Charter of Peer Support: A Photo Blog

By BodyMatters therapist Sarah McMahon What informs how we approach supporting people with body image or eating issues? This...

September 13
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Eating Disorders in Schools

By BodyMatters therapist Sarah McMahon Last week I had the wonderful opportunity to speak about eating disorders with some...

September 4
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Help!! Someone I love has an eating disorder!!

  By Psychologist Sarah McMahon At BodyMatters we have a constant stream of people contacting us because someone they...

August 14
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Welcome to Our Bookshop

Books can be great personal tools or may even be treated as friends, which give you a helping hand...

August 6
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Please join us in welcoming Jen to the BodyMatters Team!

  When people apply for jobs at BodyMatters, or send through their resume, we are often asked what we...

July 31
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Skype: A New Solution to Accessing Treatment for Eating Disorders

By BodyMatters Clinical Psychologist Christie Lomas   Imagine this, your child is unwell, dying from a disease which stops her...

July 23

Why do we binge eat around menstruation?

Psychologist Sarah McMahon talks about this significant issue for so many females! Binge eating and menstruation are two separate...

July 22