When someone you love is struggling with an eating disorder, it can feel overwhelming, exhausting, and deeply isolating, like landing on a hostile planet where all the rules have changed.
Caregivers are often carrying enormous responsibility behind the scenes: supporting recovery while managing fear, uncertainty, family life, and their own emotional wellbeing. Many feel as though they are walking on eggshells, quietly holding everything together — paralysed, terrified, frustrated, and hopeful, often all at the same time.
We know from our work with families, and from research that when caregivers feel informed, supported, and less alone, it makes a meaningful difference — both for them and for their loved one. You don't need to have all the answers. You don't need to carry this alone. Whether you are looking for guidance, reassurance, practical strategies, or simply a space to feel heard and supported, we are here to walk alongside you.
We offer a range of caregiver supports designed to meet families where they are, from:
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Our high support, tailored 1:1 offering working with Deirdre, providing personalised support with voice-note and email support in between sessions. Have Deirdre in your back pocket!
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Flexible ad hoc 1:1 sessions for families who may need support around a particular challenge (starting school, planning summer) or transition (starting college, transitioning to a lower level of care) or to help negotiate a difficult moment.
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Alongside this, our First Aid for Caregivers group programme offers practical tools, emotional support, and the reassurance of connecting with others who truly understand the realities of supporting someone with an eating disorder.
FOR CAREGIVERS
Calmly Connecting for Change
Supporting Your Loved One with Confidence and Compassion
Over Six Sessions
Feeling overwhelmed or unsure of your role in your loved one's recovery?
Would you like to learn how to effectively support, with the right tools and skills?
Learn how to navigate the ups & downs of recovery?
This bespoke 1:1 programme (six sessions with in between voice note and email support) equips you with the tools and strategies to offer support with confidence and compassion — while also caring for yourself.
To make sure that this is the right support option for you, right now, book a discovery call with Deirdre below.
1:1 Consultation with Deirdre
Deirdre provides flexible ad hoc 1:1 sessions for families who may need support around a particular challenge (starting school, planning summer) or transition (starting college, transitioning to a lower level of care) or to help negotiate a difficult moment in recovery.
Perhaps you’d like to understand whether your loved one has a problem with food or exercise? And what to do next?
Perhaps you’re struggling to understand the treatment plan?
Book a session with Deirdre now!
First Aid For Caregivers
First Aid for Caregivers is a six-week programme for people supporting a loved one with an eating disorder — a space to feel steadier, less alone, and better able to be there for the person you care about, with a neurodivergence-affirming approach throughout.
Enrolment for our next intake isn't open just yet.
Join the waiting list and you'll be the first to hear when dates are confirmed, with early access to save your place before it's shared more widely.