Richard Palmer - Eating Disorder Specialist Therapist (Adults)
I’m Richard, founder of The Eating Disorder Recovery Clinic. I work with adults experiencing eating disorders and related difficulties with food, body image, and compulsive exercise.
Living with an eating disorder can feel relentless. The thoughts don’t switch off, the challenge is constant, and the impact often spreads far beyond food into every part of daily life. It can be exhausting and deeply isolating, even when there are people around you who care.
I believe wholeheartedly that recovery is possible for everyone. Not a watered-down version of recovery where we’re just trying to manage your symptoms, but real change that allows life to feel safer, more hopeful, and genuinely worth engaging in again.
My approach to recovery
Eating disorders rarely appear out of nowhere. They often develop as ways of coping with difficult experiences, emotions, or pressures, and over time they can become deeply entrenched even when they are no longer helping.
My approach focuses on understanding what the eating disorder is doing for you, what keeps it going, and what needs to change for recovery to become possible.
The work is informed by evidence-based eating disorder approaches including CBT-E and MANTRA, alongside trauma-informed and integrative ways of working. Therapy is active and collaborative, with practical between-session tasks that help turn insight into real change in everyday life.
Key Information
Clients I work with:
Adults
Eating disorders I work with:
Anorexia nervosa (restrictive and binge/purge), bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder (BED), avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), disordered eating.
Additional focuses:
Body image difficulties, compulsive exercise.
Sessions:
Online and in person in Bridgwater (TA6 3LY).
Availability:
Monday-Friday with appointments held across the day and early evening.
Appointment fee:
£75.
Appointment length:
60 minutes.