Dr Elena Touroni

Dr Elena TouroniDr Touroni is a Consultant Psychologist at Central London NHS specialist personality disorders service.

Special interests include relationship difficulties, personal development, work-related stress, depression, anxiety, issues of sexuality and addictions.

A founding partner of Maple Psychological Services and Clinic Director, she can offer therapy in English or Greek.

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Dr Mat King

Dr Mat KingDr King manages an NHS Specialist Eating Disorders Service in London.

He has worked in primary and secondary treatment settings working with people with anxiety, depression and panic attacks.

He has a special interest in anxiety, panic attacks, and obsessive compulsive disorder.

Dr King is a founding partner of Maple Psychological Services.

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Dr Alison Murfett

Dr Alison MurfettDr Murfett is a Highly Specialist Psychologist within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (NHS). 

She has 10 years clinical experience working with adults, children, young people and their families with a broad range of behavioural and emotional disorders in both adult and child mental health settings.

Special interests include work with young people, school-related stress, anxiety, eating disorders, OCD and PTSD.

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Dr Farha Choudhary

Dr Farha ChoudharyDr Choudhary is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist working as a Specialist in a Personality Disorder Service in Central London and in a Community Mental Health Team based in Surrey.

She has been in clinical practice since 2004 working with individuals suffering from a broad spectrum of difficulties.

She obtained her BSc in Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London and her Practitioner Doctorate in Psychotherapeutic and Counselling Psychology from the University of Surrey.

Her special interests include anxiety, depression, phobias, personal development, identity issues, relationship and interpersonal difficulties and couple and family work.

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Dr Jane Evans

Dr Jane EvansDr Evans is a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist working within an NHS Eating Disorders Service in Central London. Her special interests lie in eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and self-esteem related difficulties.

She takes an individualised approach, within which her predominant models of therapy are Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Schema-Focussed Therapy; further specialist training has been undertaken in each of these.

She has worked with a wide spectrum of emotional difficulties (such as depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder), both individually and in groups, across both outpatient and inpatient settings.

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Dr Maxine King

Dr Maxine KingDr King is a Specialist Counselling Psychologist working in a London based NHS Community Mental Health Team and Primary Care Liaison Team for adults with mental health difficulties.

She has been in clinical practice in the NHS since 2004, working with individuals, groups and couples with a broad spectrum of emotional and behavioural difficulties from mild through to severe and complex.

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Eating Disorders

Although Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa are the two major eating disorders, the most people with eating problems have aspects of both or move between from one to the other.

Anorexia usually involves extreme weight loss as a result of rigid diet or starvation.

A person with anorexia may also become compulsive with exercise. Some of you may also engage in binge eating and self-induced vomiting, or the misuse of laxatives.

Females with anorexia will suffer from amenorrhea, the absence of menstrual cycles.

People with anorexia have an intense fear of becoming fat and a disturbed perception of their body weight.

People with anorexia are usually preoccupied with food and may become picky eaters.

People with bulimia binge on food over a short period of time followed by episodes of dieting, self-induced vomiting or laxative abuse.

This cycle may be repeated several times during one day or week.

People with bulimia are afraid of becoming fat. Some of them manage to maintain their weight within the normal range.

The behaviour of a person with bulimia is characterised by high impulsivity.

Some of you may also show poor impulse control in other areas such as drug abuse, self-harm and stealing.

Both anorexia and bulimia are more commonly found in teenage girls and women.

People with eating disorders may also have other difficulties such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, which can complicate their recovery.