Combining lived experience supporting a child through recovery with qualifications and training in psychology, family therapy and peer work, Bliss provides families and carers of loved ones experiencing eating disorders with compassionate, evidence-informed approaches to navigating their support journey. With over 5 years of experience in public and private eating disorder settings, most recently leading the lived experience team at The Victorian Centre of Excellence in Eating Disorders (CEED), Bliss practices with experience, expertise, and empathy. Recognising that the needs of families and carers are as unique to them as the eating disorders experienced by their loved ones, Bliss's sessions are personalised and tailored to those attending. Sessions are skills focused yet dynamic and flexible, responding to needs that arise whilst supporting someone's recovery journey - be it validation and emotional support or practical strategies and guidance. Bliss understands the complexity of supporting a loved one through eating disorder recovery and the need to be well-resourced internally as a caregiver. She enjoys working with caregivers to develop their own tool kits to call upon as well as unpacking, and stepping away from, held beliefs they have about eating disorders, diet culture and what recovery should or shouldn't look like. Bliss works from a single-session consultation framework as well as short and long term consultation. |
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Availability: Bliss is available for consultation:
* Face to face consultations in Collingwood from mid-October 2024 All clients who book a single-session consultation will need to complete a pre-session questionnaire. This will be forwarded with your appointment confirmation. | Please send all referrals to:Email: reception@eatlovelive.com.auFax: (03) 9088 0249 |
We require that all clients be linked in with regular medical support to ensure their ongoing medical safety.
We require clients to be engaged with or planning to engage with psychological support to ensure that we are providing safe, ethical and evidence-based support.
AGE LIMITS FOR ACCEPTING NEW REFERRALS:
Please note some practitioners have boundaries on the age of clients they will accept as new referrals.
We request that for all new clients aged 15 years and younger that a pre-assessment questionnaire be completed to assist us in triaging the young person and family.
For all clients aged 15 or younger we request that the initial assessment be with the parents/ carer only.
Eating disorders do not just affect the person but families as a whole.
This is an important part of the assessment process and will help us to get a clear history of the development of the eating disorder and aid in setting up a treatment team and clear treatment goals moving forward.
Family Based Therapy/Treatment (FBT) is the gold standard for supporting children and adolescents with eating disorders. The Eat Love Live team are not trained in FBT or family therapy.
We can be an adjunct to this important treatment process, provide a safe space for discussion around meal planning, information about eating disorders, physical and psychological risks associated with the eating disorder, normal puberty changes to the body, guidelines to adequate amounts of nutrition and help clear many of the myths about food and bodies in our community.
We appreciate that accessing paediatric and adolescent services is difficult and there are long wait lists. As with all clients, we insist that all adolescents are linked in with a multidisciplinary team including a GP and a mental health clinician - be it a psychologist or psychiatrist. And we suggest that clients make the referral to CAMHS/CYMHS and / or private family therapy and be on the waiting list for this support.
Along with the GP or paediatrician we can provide information and support while families are waiting for this important more intensive support.
Parents can speak with their GP or Paediatrician about referrals to these supports.