Nick Kemp - Treating Food Disorders

In recent times "food disorders" have become increasingly more commonplace with extensive discussion in the media about the reason for increases in bulimia, anorexia and binging.

Many traditional approaches attempt to identify how the condition "began" searching for hidden meanings. My approach to resolving food disorders is to create greater choices in thinking and behaviours. This means treating every client as a unique individual and exploring and identifying the triggers for the behaviour. These triggers for the unhelpful behaviour can really vary from person to person. Sometimes the trigger can be a specific set of circumstances that regularly occurs in a person's life, other times there seems (to the person involved) to be not determinable pattern. In these instances the hypnotherapy approach can work really effectively, as the client then is able to gain a new perspective in this more relaxed state.

Many bulimics plan in intricate detail their eating behaviours for each day and week ahead. It's important to remember that such behaviours are "learned behaviours" and by using NLP it's quite possible to change these unhelpful patterns to create a life that is no longer centred on the subject of food and eating. I generally advise a number of sessions for such conditions, so each client is able to see the differences in the changing behaviours and gradually discover that they have a wider range of choices in how they feel about food.