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About EDQ
Through individual and group therapy, peer mentoring and community building, we aim to alleviate the impact of eating disorders for everyone concerned.
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EDQ provides treatment and support through four different avenues.
Click on the menu to the right to see which one fits your needs best. Always feel free to call and ask for assistance if you are unsure – we have a dedicated Care Navigator who will be able to help.
Queensland Health (QH) provides funding for Individual and Group treatment and Peer supports.
Brief Intervention Therapy for Eating Disorders
You may be able to use your NDIS plan for Therapy, Dietitian, or Recovery Coaching appointments. EDQ is a registered NDIS provider.
If you have a Medicare plan, you can access treatment under EDQ’s Medicare arm.
There are two group options available through this funding avenue, regardless of any other services you might be accessing.
Contact EDQ if you would like to connect or find out more about our services.
Family members and carers play a key role in supporting a loved one’s recovery journey.
A ‘carer’ is anyone supporting an individual with an eating disorder.
As a GP, you are likely to be the first health professional a person with an eating disorder or carer will come in contact with. A GP’s role in the treatment of eating disorders can include prevention, identification, medical management in a primary care setting and referral (NEDC, 2015).
EDQ is a self-referral clinic. GPs are welcome to send referral paperwork or GP reports to EDQ (via email), and we will keep it on file until such time as the client reaches out. We do not have the capacity to contact each client that is referred to us.
This online training is about helping you gain knowledge and skills and improving your confidence around meal support.
Experts from the eating disorder sector have called for tighter regulation of social media apps
We are a team of caring, qualified individuals, many with a lived experience with eating disorders, who are here to help you.
A skilled, dedicated and passionate feminist Senior Social Work Clinician.
SENIOR PRACTITIONERS
PUBLIC HEALTH TEAM
Practice Coordinator & Public Health Officer
Caroline is an experienced practice coordinator and the first point of contact for general enquiries and administrative duties.
Research Officer
Care Navigator & Public Health Officer
CLINICAL TEAM
Eating Disorder Practitioner
A practitioner in the Individual Clinical stream, with a Masters in Counselling.
Eating Disorder Practitioner
A lived-experience counsellor and group facilitator, with a Degree in Psychology and Masters in Social Work.
Eating Disorder Practitioner
An early career Social Work Clinician with a Bachelor of Behavioural Science.
Eating Disorder Practitioner
Sarah is a practitioner in the individual clinical stream.
Eating Disorder Practitioner
Lucy has 10 years social work experience across the community sector.
Eating Disorder Practitioner
Bachelor of Psychological Science with Honours.
Eating Disorder Practitioner
Master of Psychotherapy with Honours and Bachelor of Science (Psychology)
Eating Disorder Practitioner
Bachelor of Psychology and Master’s in Public Health (Health Promotion)
Amira is a lived-experienced practitioner in the clinical stream, with a background in Lived Experience Work at EDQ and a Master of Social Work.
CARER & KEY SUPPORT TEAM
Mary-Ann has a Bachelor of Applied Social Science (Counselling) and works as a Carer and Family Coach at EDQ..
LIVED EXPERIENCE SUPPORT WORKERS
Laura has been living in Australia since 2018 after moving from England where she ran her own photography business while overcoming her eating disorder.
Mandy has over 20 years’ experience providing peer support, recovery coaching and care services both in the community and private practice.
ALLIED HEALTH TEAM
Contracted Dietitian
(Medicare & NDIS)
Bachelor of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and a Master of Dietetic Studies.
Contracted Dietitian
(Medicare & NDIS)
Accredited Practising Dietitian and Credentialed Eating Disorder Dietitian, provides a non-diet approach to navigating nutrition and restoring health
EDQ BOARD
Karen Dare
Chairperson, Director
Expertise: Community Sector
Karen has a social sciences background and over 35 years of experience in the community sector, working with Communify since 1994. She works with a strong community development focus and has extensive experience as a board member for prominent community and other organisations. Karen is recipient of the 2001 Centenary Medal and the Brisbane Australia Day Award for her contribution to the community sector.
Karolina Pemberton
Treasurer, Director
Expertise: Finance
Karolina is a qualified accountant with over 17 years of experience across a range of sectors and specialities, including Financial and Management accounting, Budgeting and Forecasting, and not-for-profits. Outside her professional life, Karolina has a love of family, cooking and tennis
Suzannah D’Juliet
Secretary, Director
Expertise: Legal
Suzannah is a commercial lawyer who works in Executive Management in the Resources Industry. She has special interests in insurance, risk and compliance and has experience as a Non-Executive Director in the private sector. Suzannah has a lived experience of eating disorders and is passionate about EDQ’s quality, client centered care and service delivery model.
Marc Bryant
Director
Expertise: Expertise: Carer, IT
Marc is a current member of the Qld Government Advisory Group (Eating Disorders), and also has more than 20 years’ experience in State Government public service, including various expert panels and consulting groups, with special interest in IT systems and information management. Marc has had approximately 6 years’ lived experience with eating disorders as a carer and has mentored other carers.
Susan Gobbart
Director
Expertise: Psychology/Service Delivery
Susan is a psychologist with a special interest in complex trauma, co-occuring AOD and mental health concerns, and Clinical Governance, particularly program evaluation and service/client outcome measures. She is currently working with an Indigenous Birthing program as a Perinatal and Parenting Psychologist as well as in Private Practice providing Psychological Therapy to people in rural and remote locations around Australia. She has over 30 years of professional experience across a range of areas in the mental health field.
Eating Disorders Queensland
We support a vibrant community of individuals recovering from an eating disorder, including people with lived experiences, carers and family members.
LOCATION:
51 Edmondstone Street,
Yuggera Country,
South Brisbane, QLD 4101
CALL: (07) 3844 6055
Partners
Belinda is a skilled, dedicated, culturally sensitive and passionate feminist Senior Social Work Clinician, who holds a BA (Health Sc & Soc. Services), MSocWK degree. She has practiced in the field of complex mental health, dual-diagnosis (alcohol and/or other drugs), trauma (sexual assault, domestic violence), and eating issues for over 19 years in the not-for-profit sector.
Belinda is experienced in leading teams in these complex areas, as well as navigating ethical and service delivery issues in a proactive and creative way within the boundaries of service and funding agreements and AASW practice standards. A caveat progression of her career has been to move into a broader systems reform practice, pinpointing service delivery gaps for clients and implementing reform initiatives.
She has achieved this due to a strong caveat ability to connect with various inter-disciplinary sectors and has developed substantial interagency connections with links across the NGO sector, public mental health sector and primary health care. Belinda is a mother to two extraordinary young women, has been married for 30 years, and values spending time with her family. She has deep spiritual connections and is an avid paddle boarder.
Christophe is an accredited mental health social worker with the AASW and has been a practitioner at EDQ since 2019, currently working in both the Qld Health funded stream as well as a Medicare and NDIS contractor.
Christophe’s core area of interest and passion is mental health recovery, believing that hope and recovery is possible despite the often-overwhelming nature of the eating issue and recovery journey. Like previous recovery work in other mental health sectors (since graduating in 2009), Christophe draws upon authentic, strengths based, collaborative, and person-centred principles and draws heavily from trauma informed, community development, social justice, and feminist practice frameworks.
More specifically, Christophe adopts the approaches of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, Schema Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Specialist Supportive Clinical Management, Motivational Interviewing, Solutions Focused, and creative expression to assist those with an eating issue along their recovery journey.
He seeks to understand and learn from your experiences because you are the expert, and he acknowledges the courage is takes to reach out and show up. To balance the seriousness of this mental health work, he also likes to sprinkle a respectful use of humour throughout his sessions. Christophe’s aim in practice is to make you feel comfortable, listened to, and hopeful for the future so that a purposeful and trusting therapeutic relationship can take place to safely address the underlying issues and adopt new ways of coping. He is honoured to be part of this unique process.
Aside from his mental health work, Christophe values time as a father, husband, musician, and camper. He appreciates (in no order) the various things to do with music, art, the natural environment and universe, diversity, adversity, the unusual /strange, and world cup football.
Registered Psychologist. Bachelor of Psychological Science. Pronouns: She/Her/Hers. Emma is the Treatment Services Team Leader at EDQ. Emma is passionate about working towards EDQ’s vision, ‘a world free from eating disorders’ and facilitating system change to make this possible. Emma would like to see individuals and their key supports be able to access support when they need it and in affordable ways. Emma’s framework is strengths-based and person-centred, she values connection with each individual story to provide a safe and supported space with the goal to make each person feel heard. Emma hopes to support each person to create a positive/neutral, compassionate relationship with their body, mind and whole self and hopes to see this valued in healthcare and society as a whole. Emma is also passionate about prevention and early intervention.
Emma started working in the eating disorder space in 2012 as a telephone support counsellor for individuals, families, and key supports. She then worked across various not-for-profit and private organisations with children, young people and adults providing assessment and therapeutic support.
Emma’s framework is guided by EDQ clinical guidelines. She draws on a feminist-based, social justice framework. She works from a range of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and is guided by the individual person.
Outside of EDQ, Emma is a mum of two enjoying the curious, mindful, and magical lens children bring to the world. She loves spending time with family, yoga, walks by the water, breakfast/brunch with friends, podcasts and finding a great TV series to enjoy.
Rohie oversees both Operations and Public Health/Health Promotion activities at EDQ. Her role is varied and can include a wide range of activities, such as developing policies and procedures, creating social media content, and presenting workshops. She aims to include lived experience perspectives in her work as frequently as possible.
Rohie has been working at EDQ in various roles since 2018, and with a degree in Public Health (Gender and Sexuality), is passionate about improving healthcare systems. She is also passionate about diversity in practice and ensuring clients of all backgrounds feel safe and comfortable accessing our services. Rohie previously facilitated the Peer Support Group on a regular basis.
In her free time, Rohie enjoys puzzles and spending time in nature.
Caroline is an experienced practice coordinator and the first point of contact for all general inquiries and administrative duties. She is dedicated to ensuring that every visitor and client feels welcome. Caroline is also the primary contact for volunteers and lived experience speakers and provides coordination of volunteer rosters and speaker events.
Caroline’s attention to detail and organisational skills are evident in her day-to-day work, which includes coordinating catering for EDQ groups, managing room bookings, scheduling meetings, and overseeing the general day-to-day management of allied health practitioner bookings and inquiries. She is also responsible for handling general client and carer inquiries with patience and understanding.
With over 10 years of experience in administration within General Practice, Psychiatry, and Allied Health, Caroline brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to her role. She holds an undergraduate degree, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Counselling, and is currently completing a Master’s in Counselling. Caroline is deeply passionate about working within the eating disorder space and enjoys providing support to the EDQ team.
In her free time, Caroline enjoys practicing meditation and yoga, spending time with friends and family, and relaxing by the beach.
Jess oversees research projects at EDQ, data quality assurance, and internal program evaluation for EDQ’s individual and group services.
She has a Bachelor of Psychological Science with Honours and a Master of Public Health, majoring in Epidemiology and Research Methods. Valuing research that promotes better outcomes for clients and healthcare consumers, Jess utilises observational research methods to evaluate the treatment outcomes of EDQ’s service.
Outside of EDQ, Jess enjoys playing board games with friends and getting outside on camping trips, hiking, and spending time at the beach.
Orelia is a dedicated care navigator and public health officer at EDQ. With a Master of Public Health, she is well-equipped to support individuals in navigating their healthcare needs and promoting health and well-being.
As a care navigator, Orelia utilises a client-driven process to support individuals to navigate their eating disorder treatment to ensure they receive the care and support they need to recover and thrive. Additionally, she also assists with EDQ’s health promotion campaigns and projects.
Passionate about her work, Orelia is dedicated to improving the lives of those affected by eating disorders by challenging the stigma and misconceptions. She is committed to making a positive difference and promoting awareness of the importance of seeking help and support for those who are struggling.
When she’s not busy supporting clients at EDQ, Orelia loves to relax by watching movies and exploring new places.
Nat has a background in social work and counselling (Masters of Social work; Masters of Counselling), and has been working for over 15 years in the areas of mental health, homelessness, women’s services and eating issues. She is also a qualified yoga teacher for both adults and children and values the role of both talk therapy and yoga in support around eating issues and other mental health concerns.
Coming from a lived experience background, Nat understands the strength and courage recovery can take and uses her work as an exploration with people to enquire and find freedom and contentment in their lives. She works holistically, valuing the therapeutic relationship as restorative and a place for change.
Nat enjoys spending time with her family and animals, camping and road trips to the Outback, playing AFL and supporting Collingwood Magpies (the best team) and being by the water.
Lisa is a therapist and group facilitator at EDQ, holding a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Master’s in Social Work. With over seven years of experience in the EDQ community, Lisa has worked with clients of all ages with eating issues, diverse abilities, and mental health concerns. Lisa has lived experience of recovery from an eating issue, having worked in other roles at EDQ as a Mentor, Speaker and Peer Worker. Her half-Vietnamese heritage has instilled in her the importance of cultural sensitivity in therapy for clients from ethnic minorities or backgrounds.
Lisa’s approach to therapy is rooted in the belief that it is a space for healing, growth, and empowerment. She employs a compassionate, trauma-focused, and person-centred approach that values clients as experts of their own lived experience. Lisa seeks to enhance clients’ involvement, direction, and control in sessions, ensuring that therapy is a safe and supportive space for them to explore any barriers they face. Her goal is to help clients heal harmful relationships with food and body, and support them in leading a life free of eating issues.
As an Accredited Social Worker, Lisa engages in various professional development activities to ensure her practice is current and relevant to clients’ needs and community issues.
When not at EDQ, Lisa channels her creativity as a muralist and harpist, and enjoys cooking, hiking, swimming, and spending time in nature.
An accredited social worker in the individual clinical stream. David (pronouns: he/him) is an accredited social worker with the Australian Association of Social Workers. David joined EDQ at the beginning of 2018 as he completed his final social work placement. Upon graduation, David joined the team as an Eating Disorder Practitioner and has worked with people experiencing eating disorders in both individual counselling and group settings. Within this role, David has co-facilitated The Community Table, Ten-week Therapeutic Group, Wise Choices, and the Peer Mentoring Program.
David is passionate about mental health recovery and that eating disorder recovery is possible. David focuses on connection and story sharing within his work to reduce the impact of isolation, shame, and stigma that are associated with eating disorders. David framework is grounded in a person-centred, collaborative, and strengths-based approach. David adopts the approaches of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, sensory strategies, and solution-focused therapy.
David enjoys spending time with his family, friends, and dog, as well as getting out into nature. He enjoys listening to music and sings for personal enjoyment.
Sarah is a practitioner in the individual clinical stream. Sarah is a registered counsellor through ACA.
Sarah is works from a person-centred approach and is guided by a person’s individual goals for therapeutic work. Sarah draws from frameworks including Internal family systems, compassion focussed therapy and Acceptance and commitment therapy. Sarah endeavours to create a safe and supportive container in her therapy sessions and group spaces. Sarah brings her own values of compassion, authenticity, and connection to sessions with clients.
Outside of work, Sarah connects with her value of fun through roller blading, playing with her cats and reading.
Lucy is an eating disorder practitioner in the clinical stream delivering counselling and group work. Lucy is also one of the trauma informed yoga instructors at EDQ.
As a qualified Social Worker with over 10 years of experience, Lucy’s approach is strengths-based and person-centred, meaning that she strives to understand and build upon the unique strengths and experiences of everyone she works with. She has a warm and empathetic style and strives to create a safe and judgment-free space in her therapy room.
Lucy’s early career experience in refugee resettlement, homelessness, and youth mental health led her to develop a particular interest in acute and complex trauma. She works from a strongly trauma-informed approach.
Lucy utilises a variety of therapeutic approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and mind-body work to help her clients achieve their goals.
In her free time, Lucy enjoys yoga, Pilates, reading, traveling, and spending time with friends and family.
Amber is passionate about creating a therapeutic space of warmth, curiosity, and gentleness so clients can feel safe to share and reflect. She values a therapeutic style of collaboration, humour and trust and her approach to counselling is grounded within the experiential.
She utilises a combination of therapeutic methods to tailor her approach to individual needs. Amber draws from experiential modalities including Gestalt Therapy and Internal Family Systems, mindfulness approaches of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Compassion Focussed frameworks. The therapy can involve working together to bring compassion to your experiences and connecting your emotional responses with past and current patterns of relating and coping.
Amber believes that you are the expert in your experiences, and she hopes to empower you to identify your inner strengths, inherent wisdom and core sense of self that knows what you need to heal. She truly honours the courage it takes to make the first step into therapy and stay with this process. Amber considers it a great privilege to be alongside you, as you develop a greater understanding of yourself and move towards healing.
Qualifications
Poppy is a registered psychotherapist with PACFA and holds a Master of Psychotherapy (Hons) and Bachelor of Science (Psychology).
Having had a lived experience of eating disorders, Poppy is aware of the bravery, courageand strength it takes to reach out for support and join the path towards healing. Poppy is passionate about supporting and empowering those in their own unique journey through eating disorder recovery.
Poppy works in a psychodynamic frame with a focus on the future, drawing upon a wide variety of approaches to suit each individual’s experiences and needs. Some examples include Psychodynamic, Person-Centred, Compassion-Focused, Emotion-Focused, Strength-Based, Solution-Focused and Trauma-Informed approaches.
Outside of work Poppy enjoys being outdoors, hiking, reading, strength-training, and spending time with her partner and their rescue cat. Poppy is passionate about nature and animals which were a large part of her life growing up in her home country Aotearoa New Zealand
Kayla is a practitioner in the clinical stream delivering brief intervention counselling and groupwork.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients identify areas of strength and develop practical skills to lead a meaningful life throughout recovery and beyond.
Kayla has a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Public Health (Health Promotion). She is also currently furthering her studies in Psychology. She seeks to combine her knowledge of Psychology and Public Health by empowering clients to recognise the impacts of harmful societal structures and messaging and how to heal from these. Having lived-experience, Kayla is especially passionate about challenging diet culture.
In her spare time, Kayla enjoys listening to live music, dancing, going to the beach, and trying all sorts of different creative hobbies.
Amira is a lived-experienced practitioner in the clinical stream, with a background in Peer Work at EDQ and a Master of Social Work.
Deeply led by her humanist values, Amira seeks to provide a therapeutic space that is supportive, compassionate, non-judgmental, and guided by the unique needs of the client. As such, her counselling style is eclectic, drawing on modalities such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Emotion and Compassion-Focused approaches, to varying degrees depending on the individual. Regardless of the modality, it is important to Amira that her clients feel heard and understood and she aims to build the therapeutic relationship, as the ground of healing, on trust and hope.
Amira enjoys board game nights with friends, singing loudly in her car, and practicing yoga.
Mary-Ann has worked in the field of eating disorders for 10 years including short term support and group facilitation for people with eating disorders as well as carers, families and friends. For the past 4 years, Mary-Ann has supported carers individually and in a group setting, to help them improve their understanding of eating disorders and ways they can support their loved one.
Mary-Ann’s work is informed by Professor Janet Treasure’s work, and she is passionate about helping families work towards a collaborative approach to recovery.
Mary-Ann particularly enjoys facilitating the family skills workshop. Mary-Ann enjoys spending time with her family, being in the outdoors and by the water.
Laura has been living in Australia since 2018 after moving from England where she ran her own photography business while overcoming her eating disorder. She found freedom using her love of helping others, education, and humorous honesty. Laura’s framework is anti-diet, collaborative, trauma-informed and person-centred. She provides a positive, entertaining voice alongside support and education by harnessing the power of sharing, mutuality, and non-judgmental acceptance.
Laura shares her lived experience of eating disorder recovery publicly and privately, in several settings. She further hopes to be a part of reducing the shame, isolation and stigma that surrounds eating disorders and mental health.
In her spare time, she loves good gelato, travelling and reading.
Mandy has over 20 years’ experience providing peer support, recovery coaching and care services both in the community and private practice. Her multiple decade lived experience background in eating disorders, family breakdown and trauma gave her a heart to be involved in this line of work. Residing in Cairns, Far North Queensland, she works remotely when not visiting Brisbane.
Mandy has been with EDQ for 5 years in numerous roles including Peer Mentor, Senior Mentor, Peer Support Worker and more recently Psychosocial Recovery Coach working with NDIS clients.
Loving people and their stories, Mandy believes that recovery is possible and not something that has to be sold, but modelled. Present life finds Mandy enjoying simple pleasures of time with family, walking, writing, and getting side tracked with a good book – all made better with the accompaniment of black coffee.
Michelle was inspired to join the lived experience workforce following volunteer work with EDQ as a peer mentor, senior mentor, and lived-experience speaker. She has worked in a variety of mental health settings including residential rehabilitation and acute mental health with an ongoing focus on working with clients with anxiety, depression, trauma, and disordered eating. Peer work has given Michelle the opportunity to actively break down mental health stigma and be an integral part of positive evolution within the mental health system which she feels passionately about.
Michelle is trained to a Doctoral level in the Visual Arts and likes to offer the physicality of creativity as an alternative way to scaffold and process some of the big concepts of recovery. Visual processing of ideas and emotions was key in her recovery journey, and she encourages creativity in all forms as a sensory, meditative, processing, reflective, and grounding tool for recovery and life.
Michelle’s lived-experience journey significantly impacted every aspect of her and her family’s life for over 15 years. Michelle understands the powerful impact of role modelling recovery and offering tangible hope whilst validating and unpacking with curiosity, each client’s unique eating disorder journey. Creating a space free of shame, expectation, and judgement but open to shared vulnerability, she works in relaxed collaboration with her clients. She likes her peer work to be holistic and humanistic- a place to explore your whole self whether this involves laughter or tears.
Outside work, Michelle continues to create whether this be through wood-burning, painting, sewing, singing in a community choir, or writing. She values life balance and enjoys being a mum, wife, sister, and friend whether this entails a trip to pool with her daughter, a date night with her husband, a family lunch, coffee with a friend or a walk by the water listening to music.
Felicity is new to peer work, having two years of experience in the peer mentor space, she is now a senior mentor and peer support worker at EDQ.
Felicity is interested in meeting people where they are at to share recovery stories and find hope within the person recovering from an eating disorder. Felicity believes in the power of peer work to connect people and walk alongside therapy as a unique perspective on recovery.
Felicity has lived experience with ED and is now recovered. Felicity has also been involved in the speaker program at EDQ in this role has worked with the peer support group. Felicity is also completing a Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) graduating in 2023 that has been big part of finding her sense of identity and fulfilling goals in recovery.
Felicity has previously worked as an artist and actor and is passionate about creativity and finding your inner strengths in recovery.
Megan is a graduate of the University of Queensland; she holds a Bachelor of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and a Master of Dietetic Studies.
Megan is a strong advocate for recovery, non-diet nutrition and body acceptance. She believes empathy, compassion and expertise are the foundation of supporting individuals with eating concerns.
Megan has undertaken research in the eating disorder field, works as a peer mentor with individuals pursuing recovery, and is active in the pro-recovery social media space.
Sarah Why, Accredited Practising Dietitian and Credentialed Eating Disorder Dietitian, provides a non-diet approach to navigating nutrition and restoring health. She prides herself on tailoring evidenced-based nutrition to an individual’s health, lifestyle and overall well-being.
She is passionate about challenging diet culture and skilling individuals with nutrition-related knowledge to make realistic changes. She has experience working with adolescents and adults experiencing eating concerns and medical conditions.
Sarah has experience working with a diverse range of clients from working in Remote and Rural communities in Far North Queensland. This naturally progressed into an interest in mental health and has since continued her work in this space delivering eating disorder-informed nutrition care.
Sarah immigrated to Australia in 2007, enjoyed travelling and eventually settled down into a life-long rewarding career as a Dietitian. When she’s not working, she enjoys downtime with her family, the beach and enjoying good food.
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This form is for individuals seeking treatment for themselves.
If you are a carer/key support person, or looking for treatment for another person, please email [email protected] instead.
Hello, this will be your first step of engaging with Eating Disorders Qld. We acknowledge that it can be difficult to discuss your experiences with eating disorder/s and body image issues, particularly at first.
To make it a bit easier, we have developed this form that you can complete and send back to us before we call you.
You will receive a call to discuss the information provided, or we are happy to complete the form with you. During this call we can discuss any questions or touch on issues pertaining to the questions on the form.
After the phone assessment has been completed and we both feel that EDQ is a good fit one of our practitioners will arrange a more comprehensive ‘intake’ session.
During an intake session, you and the practitioner will review your needs, recovery goals and expectations of therapy/holistic recovery needs. This session takes around 90 minutes.
We will also go through Confidentiality and our shared Rights & Responsibilities. Looking forward to meeting you!
Due to the high demand for EDQ’s funded services, and allowing for fair equitable distribution of therapeutic resources to the community:
• EDQ requires 48 working hours’ notice of cancellation for all appointments
• In the event of 3 late cancellations or no-shows, your practitioner will discuss other support options with you before booking another appointment
EDQ acknowledges recovery and the therapeutic process is not linear. Please discuss any changing needs or barriers with your practitioner so EDQ can best support you and the greater community.
To access services with EDQ, we require that you engage regularly with a GP to monitor your medical stability. As part of this process, a GP will need to sign EDQ’s client medical clearance form. Medical monitoring is required for all clients, no matter what kind of eating disorder behaviour is present. Eating disorders have significant impacts on physical health.
If you do not currently have a suitable GP, please let us know and we can assist you to find one.