Perhaps you're tired of fighting yourself.
You might know that your fear doesn't make logical sense — but still be unable to switch it off.
You might promise yourself that today you'll eat normally, only to find the rules becoming louder again.
You might be successful, capable and the person everybody else relies upon, while privately feeling as though you're barely holding things together.
You might understand exactly where your difficulties came from and wonder why understanding hasn't made them disappear.
Or perhaps you can't explain what's wrong at all.
You just know that living inside your own head has become exhausting.
You don't need to have the right words yet.
Therapy should make sense of the whole person.
Cate — Integrative Therapist & Founder of AEDRA Therapy Services
I'm Cate, an integrative therapist and the founder of AEDRA Therapy Services.
For more than 15 years, I've worked alongside people living with eating disorders, trauma, anxiety and the complicated ways these difficulties can overlap.
I don't believe one therapeutic model can explain every person. My work draws on different evidence-based approaches alongside neuroscience, trauma theory and an understanding of attachment but therapy with me isn't about applying techniques to you.
It's about being curious together about what is happening, why it makes sense, and what might help it change.
I will take your difficulties seriously without reducing you to them. I'll challenge you when challenge is useful, sit with the things that aren't easily fixed, and help you notice possibilities that can be difficult to see from inside the struggle.
You don't have to arrive knowing where to begin. We can work that out together.
What if the question isn't “What's wrong with me?”
Perhaps a more useful question is:
“What happened and what did I learn I had to do to cope?”
An eating disorder can create control when life feels uncontrollable. Anxiety can be a mind working relentlessly to prevent danger. Perfectionism, people-pleasing and even relentless self-criticism can develop as ways of protecting us from things that once felt threatening.
The problem is that strategies which once helped us cope can eventually begin to restrict our lives.
Understanding why a pattern developed doesn't mean accepting that it has to stay.
It gives us somewhere different from which to begin changing it.
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START WITH A CONVERSATION
You don't need to know exactly what you need or how to explain it. Begin with a confidential enquiry and, if it seems I may be able to help, we'll arrange a free 20-minute consultation.
What does working together look like?
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UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING
We'll build a fuller picture of what's happening now, what may be maintaining it, and the experiences, patterns and needs that sit around it. Therapy is collaborative — not something that's done to you.
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WORK TOWARDS MEANINGFUL CHANGE
Understanding matters, but therapy also needs to help life become different. Together we'll work towards changes that are realistic, meaningful and able to extend beyond the therapy room.
Understanding can be useful in its own right.
You don't have to be in therapy to begin making sense of what you're experiencing. AEDRA's articles and resources explore eating disorders, trauma, anxiety and the patterns that can develop around them, combining practical ideas with deeper explorations of how our experiences shape the way we think, feel and respond.
EATING DISORDERS & RECOVERY
Understanding restriction, mental hunger, body image, recovery fears and the complicated relationships between food, identity, control and safety.
TRAUMA, THE BODY & NERVOUS SYSTEM
Exploring trauma beyond memory — including attachment, dissociation, sensory processing, nervous-system responses and the ways experiences can remain embodied.
ANXIETY, OVERTHINKING & SELF-WORTH
Understanding worry, intrusive thoughts, perfectionism, shame, reassurance-seeking and the exhausting search for certainty.
Support doesn't have to stop when the session ends.
AEDRA's digital tools offer thoughtful, accessible support for moments when understanding what's happening , and knowing what might help , can feel difficult..
AEDRA CALM
AEDRA RECOVERY
For moments when anxiety, overwhelm or trauma responses feel difficult to navigate.
A calm, low-pressure collection of tools for grounding, understanding what's happening and finding something that might help — whether you know what you need or not.
Eating-disorder support that understands recovery isn't simply about knowing what you “should” do.
Tools and guidance for the thoughts, fears and ambivalence that can make eating-disorder recovery complicated — with food and nutritional rehabilitation kept firmly at the centre.
You don't need to be an AEDRA therapy client to use either app.
What would you like help with?
EATING & BODY IMAGE
When thoughts about food, weight, shape or exercise have begun taking up far more of your life than you want them to.
TRAUMA & CPTSD
When something may be over, but part of you is still responding as though it isn't.
ANXIETY & OVERTHINKING
When your mind is constantly searching for danger, certainty, reassurance or the thing you might have missed.
SELF-WORTH & PERFECTIONISM
When being good enough always seems to require becoming better.
BURNOUT & OVERWHELM
When you've coped for so long that coping itself has become exhausting.
I'M NOT SURE
When you can't quite explain what's wrong — you just know that something doesn't feel right and you'd like help understanding it.
Start Your Journey
You don't need to know exactly what you need or how to explain it. If you'd like to explore whether working together might be right for you, send me a confidential enquiry below.
If I think I can help, we'll arrange a free 20-minute consultation to talk a little about what's bringing you here and what you might need.