About
Olivia Maree is a counsellor with over 7 years of experience, specialising in eating difficulties, body image and disordered eating. She combines solution-focused therapy (SFT) with techniques like emotion-focused therapy (EFT), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and enhanced CBT (CBT-E), while advocating for Health at Every Size (HAES) principles. Olivia helps clients reject weight-focused health norms, embracing body diversity, self-acceptance and food freedom.
Olivia's personal experience with emotional eating, a childhood cancer diagnosis, and a troubled relationship with dieting informs her work. She focuses on clients with disordered eating behaviours that don’t fit typical eating disorder diagnoses but still cause harm.
Olivia empowers clients to build a positive relationship with food and self, prioritising mental and physical wellbeing.
Olivia’s mission is to nurture a community away from the pitfalls of diet culture which embraces body diversity, HAES, food freedom and self-acceptance.
I have a particular interest in working with clients who experience:
- Body image dissatisfaction
- Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)
- Binge eating disorder (BED)
- Bulimia
- Overeating and emotional eating patterns
- Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)
Position at Priory
Eating Disorder Therapist
Training
- CBT-E
- Compassion-focused therapy (CFT)
- SFT
- Certificate of Eating Disorder Training
- Certificate of Anxiety Management
- Certificate in Depression Counselling
- Member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS)
Research Interests
- Body image psychology