1-1 RECOVERY COACHING
A supplemental tool to help build a strong, lasting recovery.
What Is Recovery Coaching?
Recovery coaching is a supplemental tool in recovery that works on identifying where you're still stuck, and on setting practical goals to get you 'unstuck'. We do this through investigating where your eating disorder is still present in terms of your beliefs, actions and day-to-day habits, and work together on implementing practical tasks and changes to target the ED heads-on. Coaching is action-oriented, high-intensity and highly collaborative. We are happy to work with your team in a multidisciplinary manner.
Compared to most forms of traditional therapy, coaching focuses on the 'here and now', and on specific goal setting ("doing over thinking about doing"). Coaching is not licensed to treat or diagnose mental illnesses, nor does it replace medical treatment for an eating disorder. Instead, coaching works as a support tool to help you stay accountable, figure out where you're still stuck, how to progress towards your goals, and overall be a safe, supportive space that helps you move towards full recovery.
The Let's Recover Approach:
• Size-Inclusive (HAES-Informed): Eating disorders comes in all shapes an sizes, and so does recovery. We work with you to help your body find it's natural set point weight range, rather than overly focusing on BMI or goal weights (beyond minimums).
• 'All Foods Fit': We reject diet culture and do not believe in 'good' or 'bad' foods. We encourage full food freedom, implementation over taking away, and truly giving in to your mental and physical hunger.
• Food First-Approach: You can not talk your way out of an eating disorder, you need to eat your way out of it too!
• Science-Backed: We view eating disorders through a bio-psychological lens, and have a great understanding of the psychological, metabolic and wider physical complications and manifestations of the condition (see "view of eating disorders").
• Multidisciplinary: We are happy to work with your wider team, incl. doctors, dieticians, therapists and caregivers.
• Reactive Hunger-Informed: We are well-informed about reactive hunger and 'all in' approaches to recovery, and will productively support you through this.
• Action-Oriented: Being trained in ACT (Acceptance- and commitment therapy) and coaching, our approach emphasises action and goal setting (doing over thinking about doing!) to help you take practical steps towards full recovery.
• Holistic & Individualised: We see the person, not just the illness, and work with you on separating the two. The approach is uniquely tailored for each individual, and we work together to find a strategy that works best for you.
• Commitment To Ongoing Learning: We believe that learning never really ends. We are regularly attending supervision, collaborating with other professionals, attending continued professional development courses, webinars and meetings, and keep up-to-date with the latest science.
LR COACHES
Amalie Lee (MSc, GMBPsS) | Recovery Coach & Founder
Hi, my name is Amalie! I'm a trained coach with a background in Psychology (MSc). Frustrated with the lack of easy-to-understand, science-backed eating disorder information online, I started Let's Recover during my own recovery from Anorexia Nervosa a decade ago. In addition to coaching, I host the podcast 'Recovery Talk', and write the Substack newsletter 'Let's Recover'.
I'm especially interested in the bio-psychology of eating disorders, and my fields of expertise is reactive hunger (binge eating during/after restriction) and the cognitive-behavioural effects of undernourishment. I'm currently conducting post-graduate academic research on reactive hunger. You can learn more about me and my approach, training and qualifications by clicking 'about' on the top menu.
📍I am based in United Kingdom, and offer coaching virtually in English or Norwegian to clients worldwide.
🧠 Areas of special interest- and experience includes extreme hunger, bio-psychology, and metabolic health.
📧 You can contact me at [email protected] (professional enquiries only) and follow me on Instagram at @letsrecover.co.uk and @amalielee.
Louisa Sophie (BSc, EDIT©) | Recovery Coach
Hello, my name is Louisa! I am an EDIT© certified recovery coach originally from Germany, now living in the US with my husband and toddler. After struggling with an eating disorder and compulsive movement for over half my life, I am now fully recovered. Recovery was a life-altering experience for me, so much that I decided to shift my profession to focus on helping others fully recover as well as sharing my knowledge and lived experience.
My approach emphasises teachings from up-to-date, evidence-based approaches and research on eating disorders. Coaching is customised to fit each individual I'm working with based on their needs, goals and where they are in their recovery. I take a hands on approach: together we discuss and identify what you currently struggle with, uncover limiting and disordered beliefs, target sneaky, eating disordered habits and set action-oriented goals for each week.
📍I am based in California, USA, and offer coaching virtually in English or German to clients worldwide.
🧠 Areas of special interest- and experience include compulsive movement, motherhood/pregnancy and sneaky behaviours.
📧 You can contact me at [email protected] and follow me on Instagram at @recoverywith.louisa.
Stephanie Loix (MSc, RN) | Recovery Coach
Hi, my name is Stephanie! I am a trained coach and mental health nurse living in Belgium. I am fully recovered after 17 years of Anorexia, Bulimia, Orthorexia & compulsive movement. Recovery brought me valuable lived experience that I use in combination with my background and training to help those who are still fighting the battle. You can find me on Instagram at @the.wishful.coach where I am passionate about sharing my own story and knowledge.
I work with a patient and empathetic attitude with my clients, emphasising equality and authenticity in the therapeutic relationship. In our sessions everything can be discussed without judgements, and clients are free to be their unique selves. I always opt for a tailed approach. Together we discover what works best for you based not just on your limitations, but also on your possibilities and strengths.
📍I am based in Belgium, and offer coaching virtually in English or Dutch to clients worldwide.
🧠 Areas of special interest- and experience include autism spectrum disorders, and self-exploration/rediscovery.
📧 You can contact me at [email protected] and follow me on Instagram at @the.wishful.coach.