Specialist Dietitian & Trainee Psychotherapist

My name is Sabrina. I'm an HCPC-registered Dietitian specialising in eating disorders and a UKCP Trainee Psychotherapist. I have worked across NHS and private services, including Cygnet, ORRI and CNWL's Vincent Square Eating Disorders Service for Children and Young People (CEDS-CYP). My experience also includes leading the outpatient multidisciplinary team at St Ann's Eating Disorder Service within North London NHS Foundation Trust, supporting adults with complex and high-risk eating disorders. I also volunteer with LAPIS, a charity providing long-term psychotherapy for people living with disabilities and long-term health conditions.

Every person carries a unique history and I believe meaningful therapeutic work needs to be flexible enough to honour that. My approach is rooted in curiosity. I'm more interested in understanding distress than in trying to fix it. The things we struggle with, difficult feelings, physical symptoms, patterns we keep repeating and ways of being that no longer serve us, are rarely random. Often, they are meaningful responses to experiences and relationships that have shaped us, sometimes long before we had words for them. Rather than seeing it simply as a problem to overcome, I wonder what it might be trying to voice.

Many of us come to therapy knowing our story well. We can trace our patterns, explain our pain, and make sense of how we came to be who we are, yet still find ourselves feeling stuck. While insight can be valuable, it is not always enough to move us. Sometimes it is through the experience of being with another person that something begins to feel different and a shift becomes possible.

Therapy is not always comfortable. Staying with what feels difficult, uncertain, or painful can gradually open up new ways of understanding ourselves and relating to others. I see therapy as a collaborative exploration of both past and present, one that may open up the possibility of greater freedom, aliveness and choice in how we live.

At Ipiony, I offer specialist dietetic and eating disorder support and will soon be opening a small private therapy caseload as a trainee psychotherapist. Please get in touch to enquire about availability or the waiting list.