Achieve your weight management goals with expert psychological support.
Bind. is a carefully curated network of expert and trusted weight management psychology professionals, all with experience of working in NHS weight management services.
Our team of Psychologists and Psychotherapists will work with you to understand your current challenges with weight and create a bespoke treatment plan to best meet your needs.
We offer support for a variety of weight-related issues including:
Binge Eating
Emotionally Driven or Stress Eating
Negative Body Image
“Self-Sabotaging” Behaviours
Low Motivation
Low Self-Esteem
We can also support you to build positive and sustainable behaviour changes alongside weight management medication (*Please note we do not prescribe weight management medication).
Please book an introductory call with a member of our team to see how we can help.
Welcome to Bind.
Our Services and Pricing.
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You will work with your therapist to better understand any difficulties you are experiencing with weight, body image or eating behaviour. Together, you will use this understanding to identify new ways to create positive change moving forward.
Our clinicians are specialists in weight management. However, they can also support with other issues that may be maintaining weight problems (for example, difficulties with low mood or anxiety). If additional, more specialist support is required your therapist will discuss the best plan with you.
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Our clinicians draw upon a variety of therapeutic approaches including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness Based Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.
Our clinicians are used to working "integratively" meaning that they are able to draw upon a number of therapeutic models to create a care plan that works best for your needs. Our therapeutic approaches are also guided by research and clinical guidelines.
Please do look at "Our Team" to see what therapeutic approaches we use.
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All of our sessions are delivered remotely via video call and last 45-50 minutes.
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We aim to be transparent about pricing.
An initial assessment session with our team starts at £130 per session.
A follow-up psychological consultation starts at £110 per session.
We are not currently able to accept payment through insurance providers.
We understand pricing as a barrier to psychological therapy and hope to offer lower cost solutions in the future.
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To get started, please:
Book an Introductory Call with a member of our team.
We will then contact you to discuss your needs, goals for therapy and possible therapist fit.
We will then match you with your therapist who will then contact you to arrange your first meeting.
You're on your way!
Should you have any questions or concerns at any point in your therapy journey, please do reach out to your clinician or to the Bind. admin team and we will do our best to support you.
Meet The Founder.
Dr Sarah Appleton BSc DClinPsy CPsychol
Hello and welcome to Bind!
I am a Chartered Clinical Psychologist who specialises in Weight Management. I completed my doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford and have since worked in five different specialist weight management and bariatric services across the UK and in America. I am currently the Psychology Lead for the largest NHS weight management service in the UK; a Healthy Weight Clinical and Care Professional Lead in South East London; and Chair of the British Psychological Society Obesity and Bariatric Network.
But that’s enough of that.
Bind. was born out of years of me working in weight management services. Without doubt, the most common thing I hear in my clinical practice is, “I know what to do but I just can’t do it!”. I feel the guilt, shame and frustration that clients bring to my door. However, what I see is not a lack of willpower - quite the opposite - but years of diet culture convincing an individual that they simply aren’t trying “hard enough”.
So, instead of pushing harder - trying a more restrictive diet - I encourage my clients to do something differently. We get curious. We explore how these behaviours that cause so much distress in the here-and-now might actually make sense. And, importantly, what we can do to convert this understanding into long-term, sustainable behaviour change.
Ultimately, I started Bind. because I know how difficult it is to manage weight - that weight is a complex interplay of our biology, psychology and social factors. I also know how quickly, and sadly how often, difficulties with weight are reduced to a simple case of “move more, eat less” leaving individuals feeling misunderstood, frustrated and stigmatised.
I wanted to bring together a network of carefully curated professionals, all with NHS experience, who can help to change the conversation around excess weight: to offer compassionate, evidence-based psychological support for those experiencing weight-related challenges.
I truly hope that we are the support you need to move forward - for good - with your health and wellbeing goals.
Meet the Team.
Dr Sarah Appleton
Dr Iakovina Koutoufa
Dr Alexandria Phillips
Dr Sonya Tsancheva
Book a Free Introductory Call.
Our 15-minute free introductory telephone call allows us to better understand your hopes and goals for therapy. We will then work to find the right clinician to meet your needs.
However, this is very much a two-way process. You will also be able to ask us any questions that you may have to see if we are the right fit for you.
