Emmy is an eating disorders specialist and our clinical director and founder of The Recover Clinic. Emmy offers advice to hundreds of people looking for support and helps to find suitable treatment options for people in crisis. Emmy conducts clinical assessments around the UK, runs parents and partner’s workshops, works with patients on a one to one basis and runs therapy groups in our central London clinic. Emmy oversees the clinical work of the clinic and is continuously developing new and innovative ways of treating sufferers of eating disorders.

Emmy has received extensive training on working with eating disorders, addictions and has a Masters in Psychotherapy. She is currently working towards her PhD in Psychodynamic Counselling.

Kate is the Clinic Manager at Recover.  She is responsible for managing the day to day running of the clinic and ensuring  a high quality of service for our clients in a calm, welcoming environment.  She has over 10 years of experience in customer service and administration ensuring that the clinical team are well supported and our clients receive the very best care.

Kate is currently training in Nutritional Therapy at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition with a view to working with clients with Eating Disorders.

Dr Justin Hammond is a general practitioner with 18 years’ experience of medicine. During his general practice career he has developed a growing interest in treating and supporting clients suffering from mental health problems. He has a wide range of experience from post traumatic stress in soldiers through depression and eating disorders to employment stress in executives.

His philosophy is to help to restore balance and a healthy outlook so that his patients can return to normal mental health and a full life. He tailors his treatment to his clients: supporting, counselling, working with colleagues and using medication where appropriate.

David works with people at Recover Counselling on a one to one basis. David specialises in working with people suffering with addictions and men struggling with separation and divorce.

Alongside his work at the clinic, David continues work closely with artists in the music industry and advises on inpatient treatment options and buddy sponsoring for artists on tour. David is currently completing an MA in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy at Roehampton University.

Kate’s work as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist is one of the new ways Recover Counselling is working with sufferers of eating disorders. Her work as a psychodynamic movement therapist is based upon the connection between body, mind and emotion. Kate’s sessions focus on the use of creative movement and physical awareness as a means of understanding and communicating psychological, physical and emotional issues.

Following a ten year career as a professional ballet dancer, Kate worked with young women in prostitution/victims of human trafficking in Berlin, Germany. This work influenced her desire to use dance therapeutically and led to a masters degree in Dance Movement Psychotherapy from Goldsmiths University, London. Her experience includes facilitating both individual and group dance movement psychotherapy sessions for a range of client groups but she has a particular interest in working with young women.

Lyndsay has a Masters Degree in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy and has worked both in the NHS, the charity sector and in Private Practice with a wide range of diagnoses including eating disorders, addiction, trauma and sexual abuse.

As well as Arts Psychotherapy, Lyndsay has completed training in Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Equine Assisted Therapy and has a passionate belief in the healing power of creativity in all its forms.

Hastings received her Master’s in Risk and Prevention: Developmental and Preventative Counselling from Harvard University and her MPhil in Psychology and Education from the University of Cambridge. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN).

Hastings’ special interests include the treatment and prevention of eating disorders and working with clients towards positive body image, healthy self-esteem, and confident social skills. She has developed therapeutic prevention and intervention programmes for eating disorders, social life skills, media awareness, and anti-bullying, which she has run in multiple settings in the UK and US.  Other areas of client-focused work have included bereavement, self-harm, crisis, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorders, intercultural communication and adjustment, and working with third-culture persons (children and adults whose developmental years are spent in multiple cultures).

Marissa is our naturopathic nutritional therapist who specializes in working with eating disorders. Marissa works in a slow, relaxed, non-intimidating manner, with no judgments or preconceptions. She strives to help every client feel empowered to help themselves be well, find strength and thrive. For Marissa, naturopathic nutritional therapy in relation to eating disorders is not just about being free of illness, but about helping clients achieve life-long mental and physical wellness. She has a diploma in naturopathic nutritional therapy from the College of Naturopathic Medicine and is a member of the Federation of Nutritional Therapy Practitioners.

Dee Harrington has been practicing the Pilates Method for 25 years and teaching it for the last seven years. Dee says that Pilates has been the only exercise that she has really enjoyed and the only one, which continues to challenge her. It takes practice and you can do the mat method anywhere.

Since becoming a teacher Dee has learnt a great deal about the uniqueness of the human body and how to adopt the exercises to suit the individual client. Dee helps clients feel relaxed through the breath control and rhythmical movements as well as teaching the technique for lean strong muscles and a flat firm centre. Many people suffer physical and emotional pain through injuries and trauma, and through the stretching and Pilates Method, Dee has been able to free up tight and painful areas of their bodies.