Early Intervention for ages 11-25's

Body Image Worries

Many young people struggle with how they see their bodies. For some, these worries become overwhelming — affecting confidence, mood, friendships, eating habits, and everyday life. This may include intense body checking, avoiding mirrors or social situations, distress around food, or constant reassurance‑seeking about appearance.

At Body Image Coach, we support young people and their families to understand what’s underneath these worries and to build a healthier, calmer relationship with their body and mind. Our approach is to educate people on how their mind works and how they can change those core beliefs that are no longer serving them. We do this through video animation, peer support groups and 1-1 coaching - online.

Who Are We?

We are a small qualified team who support young people, providing early intervention coaching and psychoeducation (training) for body image disorders. We are accredited with quality care frameworks and have worked across the mental health sector, including with eating disorders and BDD for over 30 years, with combined lived experience.

What Do We do?

Our programme(s) run across 6 weeks. Each programme consists of pre-recorded animated workshops, peer support groups and 1-1 coaching sessions. We deliver individually to combine psychoeducation and tailored coaching.

Where Are We?

We are a fully digital on online service across the UK. A not for profit enterprise delivering (on demand) pre recorded animation workshops to your email address, and live 1-1 coaching and peer support through Microsoft Teams and telephone. We deliver individually to each person's home or safe space. Please get in touch to find out which parts of the UK are funded.

Who Is It For?

We currently support ages 11- 16 and

16 - 25. We take referrals from parents, healthcare and educational providers. You can make your own referral if you are 18 or over. Please note: we do not provide clinical assessment, treatment or monitoring, if you need assistance with this we encourage you to speak with your GP, who can arrange specialist assessment or treatment in line with NICE (and SIGN in Scotland) guidelines.

Programme Overview

Our 6-week early intervention is designed to promote positive body image and support early mental health challenges related to self-perception, eating disorders and BDD. Participant’s parents/carers or yourself if you are accessing the program and are over 18, receive workshops via email, which are accessed from the comfort of your own home, giving you the flexibly to watch them around your busy schedule. Each workshop is like attending a coaching and psychoeducational session as participants work through the booklet print out and video which is in animation for deeper engagement. Each participant can also engage in interactive peer support group sessions with a trained body image coach, as well as 1-1 coaching session/s (optional and after the program is delivered) if wished. We do not currently deliver face to face work to schools. Instead, schools and other providers/parents, refer to us as and when, and we work with young people individually in their safe space or in a school setting private space. Under 18's are supervised by a parent/guardian at all times. All participants complete safeguarding, GDPR and a contract before starting the programme.

Testimonials

“A much needed service brilliantly delivered... Olivia worked hard to support our daughter and found a way to reach her and help her cope with managing her eating disorder and body dysmorphia.”

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Who can fill this out?

Parents & Carers
Schools, youth & healthcare providers
Yourself (you must be over 18)

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