Bariatric Counselling: Support Before & After Weight Loss Surgery

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Does this sound like you?
  • Are you weighing up bariatric surgery and feeling more overwhelmed than certain?
  • Have you spent most of your life trying to lose weight and come to see this as the last option left?
  • Do you already know that something about your relationship with food needs attention, whatever happens next?
  • Are you further along than that — through surgery, and quietly worried that old patterns are finding their way back?
  • If any of that sounds familiar, you're in reasonable company, and you don't have to work it out on your own.

    The part no-one warns you about:
  • Some people find they're grieving. For a way of eating that was genuinely comforting, even when it wasn't doing them any good. That grief tends to arrive quietly and it's rarely taken seriously, partly because it feels ridiculous to mourn a takeaway.
  • Surgery changes what your body can do. It doesn't change what food has meant to you — and for a lot of people, that becomes more obvious afterwards rather than less.
  • Some find old patterns return in new shapes. Some manage well physically and still feel that something hasn't been dealt with.
  • None of that means the surgery was a mistake, or that you're doing it wrong. It usually means there's a part of this that surgery was never designed to reach.
Hi, I'm Claire!

specialist in Bariatric Counselling

I understand that the journey toward weight loss surgery — and the road that follows — brings both physical and emotional challenges.
But you don’t have to face them alone.

Bariatric surgery changes what your body can do. Therapy helps with what your mind is still carrying — the emotional patterns, the complicated feelings about food, the fear that old habits might creep back in. Many people find this is the piece that makes the real difference

Together we’ll look at what’s been driving your patterns around food, build real strategies for the harder moments, and help you feel more confident in your relationship with eating — not just your weight

 

specialist in Bariatric Counselling in UK & IRELAND (ONLINE)
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Claire Feldman, eating disorder therapist and Founder of Eatology will help you break free from binge-eating

Specialist Therapy for Bariatric Clients

This service is designed for anyone preparing for or recovering from bariatric surgery. ​

My bariatric counselling service supports people before and after weight loss surgery.

Many clients come to me feeling frustrated, ashamed, or confused about their eating habits. What they often discover is that the patterns rarely start with food. They’re usually connected to stress, emotional regulation, or — more often than people realise — ADHD, which can make consistency around eating genuinely harder, no matter how motivated you are

Together, we work on understanding these patterns so you can build sustainable habits that support both your physical and emotional health.

I don’t provide meal plans, dietary protocols or medical advice. Your surgical and dietetic team handle that side, and their guidance takes precedence over anything we discuss. My work is the emotional and behavioural part: what food has been doing for you, what changes when it can’t, and what sits underneath the patterns.

 

For clients before and after surgery, I also work alongside a specialist dietitian with expertise in bariatric and GLP-1 care.

Investment: £375 per month

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How It Works

Therapy is somewhere to look at your relationship with food, your body and yourself without having to perform being fine about any of it. We’ll look at:

  • What actually triggers your eating, and when
  • The rituals that have built up around it
  • Where guilt and self-criticism have taken over, and what to do about that
  • How to navigate the harder stretches, especially when motivation drops away
  • Reconnecting with hunger and fullness, which surgery changes in ways nobody quite prepares you for
  • The emotional and executive overwhelm that gets in the way of everything else

This isn’t about “fixing” you — it’s about helping you rebuild trust with yourself so food no longer feels like a battleground.

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The Investment

  • £375/month
  • For those who want consistent, weekly momentum and a high level of personal support.
  • Weekly bariatric counselling sessions (online)
  • Personalised hypnotherapy recording
  • Worksheets and resources chosen around what we're actually working on
  • This isn’t a pay-per-session model — it’s a consistent therapeutic container designed to support real change, both in and between sessions. We’ll regularly review your goals to make sure the pace and support feel right for you.
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Questions about bariatric counselling?

Bariatric counselling is therapy designed to support people before and after weight loss surgery. It focuses on the emotional and behavioural side of eating — understanding your patterns, preparing for a significant change, and having somewhere to take the parts of it that surgery doesn’t address.

Many people find it helpful. It’s a space to explore your relationship with food, understand your own eating patterns, and think honestly about the changes ahead before you’re in the middle of them. Some surgical teams require psychological assessment; this is separate from that, and I’m happy to work alongside your team.

Afterwards, therapy is somewhere to work out what’s changed and what hasn’t. Surgery alters what your body can do. It doesn’t touch what food has been doing for you emotionally, and for a lot of people that becomes clearer once the physical side has changed. Many clients describe it as the part nobody prepared them for.

Yes. ADHD traits like impulsivity, overwhelm and difficulty with routine can make consistency around eating genuinely harder, whatever your motivation. Understanding how that works for you specifically is often more useful than another set of rules. Sessions are paced to be manageable rather than rigid.

I recommend everyone starts with weekly sessions. Early momentum matters, and meeting weekly means we can actually get somewhere rather than spending each session catching up on the fortnight since the last one.

Once things feel steadier, we can talk about moving to fortnightly or spacing sessions further apart. That’s a conversation we have when it’s the right time, rather than a decision you have to make before we’ve even started.

There’s no fixed timeline — some clients work with me intensively for a few months, others prefer ongoing support as they adjust post-surgery. We’ll review your progress regularly to make sure the pace feels right for you.

That’s far more common than most people realise, and it doesn’t mean you’ve failed. Therapy is a place to understand what’s happening underneath — stress, emotions, hormones, sometimes ADHD-related difficulty — and to work on it without shame doing the driving.

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