About EDQ
Through individual and group therapy, peer mentoring and community building, we aim to alleviate the impact of eating disorders for everyone concerned.
What is an eating disorder?
For many people, eating disorders are not about food or their body image, but instead develop as a way of coping with other influences in their life.
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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.
Family Coaching Sessions provide an opportunity for a carer and their loved one to collaboratively discuss practical strategies and action plans to enhance the individual’s recovery.
This online training is about helping you gain knowledge and skills and improving your confidence around meal support.
Position Available: Title: Mental Health Social Worker/Psychologist/Clinical Psychologist/Dietitian (Eating Disorders) Hours: 30- 38 hours per week Award: Social, Community,
Eating Disorders Queensland (EDQ) welcomes the announcement by The Hon. Greg Hunt MP Minister for Health and Age Care, of $27 million to expand and extend support for eating disorders.
Minister Hunt stated that eating disorders “has been a hidden condition in Australia and we’re helping bring it into the light”
EDQ concurs with his words that “eating disorders can affect up to a million people in Australia – overwhelmingly women, in particular young women, and it has one of the highest mortality rates of any of the mental health conditions”.
EDQ provides the largest community support and treatment services for individuals and families living with and recovering from eating disorders, their carers and loved ones across Queensland. By the sharing of recovery wisdom, we aim to involve people with a lived experience, carers and family members and loved ones. Therefore, we are especially encouraged by Christine Morgan’s statement around the aim for “increase community access for treatment”.
EDQ CEO Belinda Chelius highlights that “NGOs like EDQ, are uniquely positioned to deliver biopsychosocial services to individuals, carers and families. Backed by 23 years expertise and evidence, providing innovative programs driven by client needs. EDQ offers counselling, therapeutic groups, support groups, community meal support, social connection, and peer mentor programs, which reduces the significant financial burden of recovery. Hence, a healthily funded NGO sector is essential to maintain this work and assist with the over 70% increase in need for the services we offer.”
Lisa Kelly, Lived Experienced Eating Disorder Practitioner, said “I applaud the Government’s move. It was the holistic, client-based approach, offered by community-based eating disorder services, that motivated my recovery.”
EDQ further urges State and Federal Governments to work together, in a way that allows for the distribution of funding that best serves the needs of consumers and their carers.
Estimated completion time is 10-15 minutes.
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. If you prefer not to complete the form online, please use the ‘Contact Us section of the website and we will call you to arrange a discussion instead.
After this 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.
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. 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. I will engage regularly with a GP for the purposes of monitoring my medical stability.