EATING DISORDERS
TREATMENT
NSW CENTRAL COAST,
& TELE-HEALTH ONLINE
SERVICES
Eating Disorders
Treatment
We provide personalised, evidence-based treatment to help you regain control and heal your relationship with food, body image, and self-esteem. We work collaboratively with you to address the underlying factors that contribute to disordered eating and work towards achieving lasting recovery.
Understanding & Managing
Triggers
Identifying and understanding triggers and patterns that contribute to and maintain disordered eating behaviours is essential in addressing food and eating concerns. Our goal is to support you in identifying and working through things so we can start to develop a positive relationship with food and eating.
Body Image &
Self-Esteem
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By using evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), we can support you to build a healthier sense of identity.​ We aim to support you in building self-compassion, identify strengths and develop a more positive relationship with your whole self.
Co-Occurring Mental
Health Concerns
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It's common to experience other mental health concerns when you're struggling with an eating disorder. Therefore it's important that we approach these concerns holistically to improve your emotional well-being and your ability to maintain progress and recovery from your eating disorder.
Relationship with
Food & Eating
Healing your relationship with food and eating begins by identifying the unhelpful beliefs and behaviours that maintain disordered eating. We want to support you in identifying emotional triggers, develop mindful eating techniques, and learn to trust your body's hunger and fullness cues.
Trauma & Underlying
Causes
Our aim is to support you in creating lasting recovery, and sometimes this requires us to work through difficult things. By using treatments such as schema therapy and eye-movement desensitisation therapy (EMDR), we can support you to process things that might have gone unresolved that are maintaining the eating disorder.
TAILORED TREATMENT
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Booking & Initial Assessment
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You can book your initial assessment through our online booking system, with or without a referral.​ In this appointment, we'll cover a broad range of things as its important that we get a holistic picture of whats happening. We will discuss symptoms, emotions, eating patterns, relationships, behaviours, and medical history.
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Collaborative Treatment Planning
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Once your assessment is complete, we'll work together to design a tailored treatment plan with clear treatment goals. This will include discussing the frequency and types of available treatment, goals you want to achieve, and working collaboratively with your general practitioner, dietician and psychiatrist (if desired or required).
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Therapy & Intervention
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Once we've got a comprehensive treatment plan, we'll start to focus on understanding what has caused the eating disorder and what keeps it going. We'll explore triggers, develop healthier coping mechanisms and aim to rebuild a more positive relationship with food and your body. At this point, its important that we monitor and track progress to ensure you're benefiting from treatment and so we can make adjustments if need be.
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Maintenance & Relapse Prevention
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As you keep progressing, our sessions will become less frequent and we'll start to shift our focus to maintaining the positive changes you've made. We'll work towards ensuring you've got a strong support network and a good plan if things ever start to slip. Our aim is to help you achieve sustainable recovery, long-term.
​We whole-heartedly believe that each individual is unique, and therefore treatment needs to be highly personalised to meet you where you are. And, we also think it's helpful for you to have an idea of what you can expect from treatment.
ABOUT THE CLINIC
The Balanced Self Clinic was established to provide comprehensive and personalised eating disorders treatment deigned to meet you wherever you are. ​Our aim is to work with you to identify the patterns that may be holding you back or keeping you stuck. We know that the same things don't work for everyone, which is why we're focused on working with you to figure out what's going to work for you.
At The Balanced Self Clinic, we are dedicated to creating a space where you feel comfortable in sharing openly about the challenges you’re facing and feel safe to engage courageously in therapy. By developing individualised treatment plans tailored to your unique needs, we’ll work together to foster self-confidence, build resilience, develop healthy coping strategies, and support you in achieving your personal goals.
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We offer a range of evidence-based treatments for eating disorders and co-occurring mental health concerns. Modalities offered include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Schema Therapy, Family Based Treatment (FBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Eye-Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) and self-compassion and mindfulness approaches.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Sabrina Miller
Clinical Psychology Registrar
Credentialed Eating Disorders Clinician
BA Psych., MPsych. Clin., MAPS.
Sabrina's aim in every session is to provide clients with a safe and supportive environment to explore themselves and their experiences of the world around them. She is dedicated to building a compassionate and authentic therapeutic relationship, ensuring that clients feel comfortable sharing openly about the challenges they face and can engage courageously in therapy.
Sabrina values collaboration in developing a strong therapeutic alliance and tailors her interventions to meet clients where they are. She draws on a variety of evidence-based modalities, including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), family based treatment (FBT), eye-movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy (EMDR) and schema therapy, as well as compassion-focused and mindfulness-based practices.
With a background in both public and private mental health services, including hospital and community settings, Sabrina has gained extensive experience working with a diverse range of clients and presentations. She has expertise in helping individuals dealing with disordered eating and eating disorders, body image concerns, perinatal concerns including anxiety and depression, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety and depression, grief, relationship and personality difficulties, trauma, and complex mental health challenges.
Sabrina is registered with AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency) and completed her Masters in Clinical Psychology at the Australian Catholic University. She holds memberships with the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and the Australian Clinical Psychology Association (ACPA). Additionally, she is a credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician with the Australian and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders.
