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Clinical psychologist Steven Mahan discusses a more rounded approach to weight loss that considers a person’s emotional relationship with food, and how psychological therapy can help to achieve an ideal weight. https://www.thechelseapsychologyclinic.com Chelsea Psychology Clinic are a group of London psychologists and psychiatrists offering private psychological therapy and psychiatry treatment from their premises across central London and Chelsea. The private therapy sessions cover the following areas: – Acceptance & Commitment Therapy – Cognitive Analytic Therapy – Cognitive-behavioural Therapy – Couples Therapy – Dialectical-behaviour Therapy – Mentalisation Based Treatment – Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy – Schema Therapy
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Often, we engage in different diets as a way of controlling our weight and to achieve a goal weight. But often with psychological therapy that can help us to understand why we have a certain weight in mind we want to achieve. And also try to optimise perhaps engagement with commercial diets. So, for example, if we have an emotional relationship with food, without psychological therapy, sometimes it can be quite difficult to really perfect the diet that we want to go for. So with psychological therapy if you’re going at it from multiple angles, so the emotional side as well as how many calories you are taking in, it can help you to have more of a holistic and more rounded approach to weight loss. And most importantly, losing weight in a maintainable and a sustainable way, so that we prevent this yo-yo dieting. So, often people who engage in diets, their weights fluctuate over the years, and they’ve tried every diet under the sun. Whereas psychological therapy, rather than it being a diet, it’s more of a lifestyle change in trying to help people make lifelong and sustainable changes to their weights and their eating patterns.
