“Who Do You Recommend I Work With in My Binge Eating Recovery?”

Lucy Newport • June 8, 2022

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This might seem like a strange article for me to write as a binge eating coach. The truth is, I’m not the coach for everyone. No one is and that’s okay! And as true as this is, it’s also my mission to help as many people as possible to heal from binge eating, make peace with food and feel at home in their bodies. Not just for ourselves, but for those who struggled before us, and for our children who I hope won’t have to have the same experiences we did. 


So here I’m sharing seven other coaches and therapists whose work I trust, who have overcome their own struggles and who are helping many people to recover from binge eating. 


I want you to know that there is a ton of support out there for you and this includes so many free resources. If you’ve just started to look into support then you might find this guide helpful too - Which Type of Binge Eating Support is Best for Me: Counselling, Therapy or Coaching?


So let's take a look at the facilitators that I recommend, in no particular order… 

Bríd McNulty (Free With Bríd) 

Type of support: Online coaching


Website: https://www.freewithbrid.com/


About her: Bríd is a food and body coach. She helps women break up with the binge-restrict cycle and heal their relationship with food and their body image following 10 years of her own struggles. This started when she was 16 and was uprooted to Moscow, taking a turn for the worse when she moved to London for university. 


She’s been through it all, the diets, excessive exercise, cleanses and over her journey, tried many different healing modalities too, like therapy, CBT and meditation. This experience helped her to find what works and what doesn’t, and since she’s helped 1000s of women stop feeling guilty about food and crappy about their body image!


What I love: Bríd’s work is very approachable and actionable. You can listen to one of her podcast episodes and start taking healing steps in your recovery right away. She also manages to speak on vulnerable topics in a lighthearted way which really puts you at ease. 


Check out: Bríd’s Instagram is full of relatable reels which will make you laugh and feel understood in your journey. 


Offerings: Bríd’s ‘30-Day Reboot’ self-paced programme takes you through 30 days of lessons, tasks and meditations to help you recover from binge eating and find long-lasting food and body peace. You can start any time and it’s currently priced at £199. She also offers her ‘Body Love Academy’ course which starts from £399 (with a price plan available). Bríd does do 1-1 coaching - if you’re interested you can send her an email or DM on Instagram to find out more. 

Jessi Jean

Type of support: Online coaching (but group counselling is also included in her programme)


Website: https://www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com/


About her: Jessi is a Mind Body Eating Coach. Her work is fueled by her past struggles, rooted in a fundamentally flawed idea that love, connection and opportunity were dependent on her body and its size. For Jessi, this turned into an obsession with her body, to the point where she became a competing bodybuilder. 


Now Jessi is a recovered binge eater and yo-yo-dieter who tried everything from years of therapy to Overeaters Anonymous meetings. She finally found her recovery when she saw value in herself (not just her body) and learned mental strategies to rewire deeply ingrained and food-centred neuropathways. 


What I love: Jessi is very real and honest in her work. She is open about her previous challenges, which helps you to feel less alone, and let's be honest - crazy! Her Instagram and TikTok pages have created much conversation about what happens in a binge eater's mind, from herself and many others who connect to her message. 


Check out: Jessi hosts ‘The Dear Body Podcast’, sharing insights on how to stop binge eating and thrive in your body in a very down-to-earth yet entertaining way - it’s like listening to a supportive big sister. 


Offerings: Jessi runs a 4-month online programme called ‘Food Freedom’ along with counsellor Cody Baker. Its three main components are a self-paced video course, group coaching and counselling calls and small group accountability. The pricing isn’t publicly available but Jessi’s team offers a free strategy call for those who are interested in finding out more. 

Sarah Dosanjh (The Binge Eating Therapist)

Type of support: Online therapy


Website: https://thebingeeatingtherapist.com/


About her: Sarah is a therapist who exclusively works with those who need support with binge eating. This is an area she chose to specialise in after struggling with binge eating disorder and episodes of bulimia for more than a decade. She’s also the author of the book ‘I Can’t Stop Eating’ which has appeared in Amazon’s best sellers list. 


What I love: I have a whole lot of respect for Sarah. She shares a depth of knowledge in her work but is also very thoughtful and reflective. She has a really calm and clear way of speaking about all of the difficult topics around binge eating that helps you feel understood and safe. 


Check out: The ‘Life After Diets’ podcast that Sarah hosts along with binge eating coach Stefanie Michele. Both Sarah and Stef are incredibly generous with all they share here, tackling many common questions that come up during recovery. 


Offerings: Sarah offers online 1-1 therapy sessions to help you uncover what’s driving your binge eating and find different ways of thinking and feeling about your eating. These are weekly sessions and are £129 for 50 minutes, with no minimum number of sessions stipulated. She also runs open-ended group sessions at £45 per 90-min session and a 3-hour group workshop at £75.

Marc David (Institute for the Psychology of Eating)

Type of support: Online coaching


Website: https://psychologyofeating.com/


About him: Marc is best known as the founder and lead teacher at the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, training others to become Mind Body Eating Coaches. He does also offer an online retreat for those who want to transform their relationships with food (more about that below). 


As a medical student, Marc saw a big gap between his nutritional training and the sorts of challenges he saw many people experiencing around food and their bodies. This led him to also study psychology and originate the field of eating psychology - pretty cool!


What I love: Marc is one of my coaching icons. He is very gentle, warm and humorous in his approach and highly informative in all areas of our relationships with food and bodies - not just in terms of binge eating. He also includes spiritual teachings within much of his work, helping us to take our relationships with ourselves to a deeper level. 


Check out: Marc hosts ‘The Psychology of Eating Podcast’ sharing his own insights and interviewing other experts in the food and body world. My favourite episodes are his coaching ones however, as there is so much to learn from these valuable conversations with people going through their own struggles. 


Offerings: Marc’s 8-week online course teaches you powerful tools and techniques around nutrition, psychology and the mind-body connection. This is all recorded, so I believe you can get started whenever you’re ready (though this isn’t 100% clear). The price isn’t public but you can get a free introductory class through the website. 

Mya Kwon (Food Body Peace)

Type of support: Online coaching


Website: https://www.foodbodypeace.com/


About her: Mya is an anti-diet dietician. After burning out whilst working in media she retrained as a dietician and went through a fellowship specialising in eating disorders. It was this that changed her outlook on health and nutrition and she began to question the conventional medical model’s weight-focused approaches. 


Mya is passionate about sharing weight-inclusive and anti-diet approaches such as Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size. She helps people to become the expert of their own bodies, improving their physical health without damaging mental or emotional health.


What I love: Mya is incredibly inclusive in her approach, helping you to feel safe and supported wherever in your journey you are when coming to her work. She is dedicated to re-educating the world on what it means to be truly healthy and shares in an uplifting and inspiring way. 


Check out: Mya’s Instagram is full of practical tools you can use to start improving your relationship with food and your body. She’s also great at breaking down diet and nutrition myths and giving new approaches for us to consider. 


Offerings: There are several ways you can work with Mya. She offers online 1-1 coaching and a small group coaching programme called “Body Respect”, where there are just 4-6 people. The pricing isn’t publicly available, but you can book a free call with her to see if either of these are right for you. Mya also has a self-paced programme starting from $597. 

Francesca Rose (Francesca Eats Roses)

Type of support: Online and in-person coaching


Website: https://www.francescaeatsroses.com/


About her: Francesca is an eating disorder coach who facilitates mindful movement, plant medicine integration and microdosing as part of her approach. Her work is about supporting you in reconnecting to your body and the medicine within. 


Francesca has been walking the eating disorder recovery path since 2007 and turned her eating and body image struggles into her service and life purpose. She teaches how both the body and psychedelics can be both tools and catalysts in eating disorder recovery. 


It’s worth noting that the psychedelics most commonly used in microdosing (psilocybin-containing mushrooms, MDMA and LSD) are illegal in many parts of the world including the UK. By sharing Francesca’s work I am not recommending that this is a path you take, but I know it’s a path that will spark the interest and be of benefit to many. 


What I love: I’ll be honest, I’m much newer to Francesca’s work than anyone else’s on this page but I love the depth of healing it evokes. Her work takes you beyond food and your body and towards connection to all of life, teaching you to become your own medicine. 


Check out: Francesca is a beautiful writer and the ‘Articles’ page on her website holds much wisdom. Here you’ll find a well of knowledge as well as words that encourage you to explore your own connection to your eating disorder, yourself and to life. 


Offerings: You can work 1-1 with Francesca either online or in person for eating disorder recovery with 4 weekly sessions being $400. She also offers monthly group coaching at $30 as well as plant medicine integration and guided movement journeys. You can get more information by reaching out to her. 

Kathryn Hansen (Brain Over Binge) 

Type of support: Online coaching


Website: https://brainoverbinge.com/


About her: After years of struggling with binge eating and bulimia, Kathryn vowed that if she ever found a way to recover, she’d write about it in the hope of helping even one person. And she did find a way, later writing her first book; ‘Brain Over Binge’. 


Kathryn’s work is rooted in her belief that binge eating is a natural but “primitive” brain response to restrictive dieting and eating. She teaches you how to work with your higher cognitive power to dismantle old neural pathways and create new, supportive paths. 


What I love: Kathryn’s work is neuroscience-based and yet she makes it incredibly easy to understand. Even more so, the work she shares is practical and simply makes sense. For anyone who struggles in particular with the binge eating and restricting cycle, get to know Kathryn! 


Check out: Kathryn’s book ‘Brain Over Binge’ had a big impact on my own recovery. It helps you to understand what is happening in your brain when you diet and why this leads to binge urges. She also shares 5 steps to start putting your brain over binge so you can break the cycle. 


Offerings: You can get online 1-1 coaching using the Brain Over Binge approach with coach Julie Mann. These calls give you a customised strategy and are $180 for 45-mins. Kathryn also offers a recorded, self-paced course at $179 for lifetime access. 

Lucy Newport (Binge Free & Worthy)

Type of support: Online coaching


Website: www.bingefreeandworthy.com


About her: Hello, it’s me! I won’t toot my own horn too much, but like the others I’ve shared here, I want to let you know a little bit about who I am and what I offer. I’m a coach who helps tender-hearted women (those who are sensitive and feel things in a big way) to break free from binge eating, create a peaceful relationship with food and feel more at home in their bodies. 


I too had my struggles with binge eating, which spanned 14 years, including a period of bulimia, years of chronic anxiety and not feeling good enough on most levels. I have learned so much on this journey and know that it’s my purpose to share this - helping other women to liberate themselves from their food and body challenges. 


Check out: My free quiz "Discover your personalised path for binge eating recovery". This will help you to better understand what’s behind your binge eating, get clarity on where to focus in your recovery and take those next steps towards food and body freedom. 


Offerings: My 1-1 coaching is completely tailored to your specific binge eating and body image challenges, as a tender-hearted woman. As well as weekly video calls, it includes your Personal Practices Guide to help keep you on your recovery path; optional in-between session WhatsApp support; and lifetime access to supportive meditations, visualisations and movement practices. It starts at £1,450 for 14 weeks (payment plans and a limited number of scholarships available), which is broadly in the range of other multi-week programmes. I am currently also working on group and self-paced options. 

Who is best for you? 

This guide is by no means a comprehensive overview of all the support that is out there to help you in your binge eating recovery. Whether or not there are facilitators on this page who you connect to, I hope that it helps you to see what a variety of help is out there and inspires your own research. 


In terms of who’s best for you, my advice will always be the same; you’ve got to go with who feels right for you.

I recommend you take some time to consider what your specific challenges are and look for people who you relate to. Follow them online, get to know their style of support and if you feel that person is right for you, reach out and take that next step 🙌



I am not affiliated with any of these coaches or therapists and all the information has been sourced directly from their websites and social media accounts. If you notice any errors or something that needs to be updated, please let me know!