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A narrowed Window of Tolerance is typical in clients who are struggling with food and body image issues. In the final blog of her essential series, psychologist, psychotherapist and author Dr Nicole Schnackenberg shares tools for helping clients to soothe and regulate their physiological systems – paving the way for deeper emotional exploration, and leaving damaging safety behaviours behind.

We experience the world through at least eight senses, all of which impact on how we notice and process our emotional states. In the penultimate blog of her series on working with clients who struggle with food and body image issues, psychologist, psychotherapist and author Dr Nicole Schnackenberg draws on Polyvagal and attachment theory to explain how sensory profiling can help.

At the heart of eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorder lies a desperate striving to feel worthy of love. Continuing her series on body image issues, Dr Nicole Schnackenberg, psychologist, psychotherapist and author of False Bodies, True Selves, discusses how to work with a client’s false and fragmented sense of self.

When a feeling of being ‘bad at one’s core’ gets projected onto our physical appearance, no amount of weight loss or cosmetic surgery will ‘fix’ us. Dr Nicole Schnackenberg, psychologist, psychotherapist, specialist in body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and author of False Bodies, True Selves, continues her blog series with a consideration of the role of shame in eating disorders and BDD.

How does our relationship with our early caregivers relate to our relationship with our bodies and with food? Dr Nicole Schnackenberg, psychologist, psychotherapist, specialist in body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and author of False Bodies, True Selves, embarks on a new blog series with a look at how eating disorders and BDD can mirror early attachment patterns – and how we might explore these in the therapy room.