So much of what we carry lives in our relationship with food, our bodies, and the parts of ourselves we’ve learned to hide. The rules, the shame, the sense of never quite being at home in your own skin. It can be exhausting, and it can be lonely. Therapy offers somewhere different to put it all down, even for an hour, and to begin making sense of it with someone alongside you.
I’m Mel, a BACP-registered counsellor working with adults across Falmouth, Truro and the wider Cornwall area, both in person and online. I specialise in supporting people who are navigating a difficult relationship with food, their body, their health, or the parts of themselves that feel hard to hold.
BACP Registered · £50 per session · In-person & Online
I work with adults who are struggling with their relationship with food, their body, or themselves. That might be an eating disorder or disordered eating, a long and complicated history with body image, or a quieter sense of feeling stuck, burnt out, anxious or a little lost.
My work often sits at the intersections of disordered eating, trauma, neurodivergence, addiction and the coping strategies that grow up around them. You don’t need to arrive with the right words or have it all worked out. You can come exactly as you are; messy, complicated, uncertain. Showing up is enough of a start.
You’re also welcome here as your whole self. My practice is weight-inclusive and non-diet, and I’m neurodivergent, LGBTQ+ and open-relating affirming.
Whoever you are, the starting point is the same: you are the expert of you.
I work in a person-centred, relational way, which means I don’t arrive with a plan for who you should become, or how quickly you should get there. You set the pace, and we work with whatever you bring, in whatever order feels right.
Something I’ve come to believe deeply is that acceptance and change aren’t opposites; they’re part of the same movement. When a person feels truly met, not despite the parts they find most difficult but including them, that’s often when something begins to shift. From that place, choice opens up in a way that pushing and white-knuckling rarely allows.
BACP Registered · £50 per session · In-person & Online
Somewhere you can bring all of you, unfiltered and unpolished, with nothing to perform and no progress to prove. Just room to be, and then to go from there.
Difficult patterns around food or coping usually make a kind of sense when we look at them honestly. They’ve been holding something, protecting something. We get curious about that together, rather than fighting it.
Weight-inclusive, non-diet, and affirming of neurodivergent, LGBTQ+ and open-relating lives. You won’t have to explain or defend who you are in order to be understood here.
Counselling isn’t my first way of caring for people. I trained and worked as a paramedic, and later took an MSc in Human Nutrition, spending several years working as a nutritionist before moving towards the slower, deeper work of therapy. Those worlds taught me a great deal about bodies, about being with people in hard moments, and about how much more there is to health than food and numbers.
That path shaped how I work now, especially around food and the body, and it sits behind my commitment to a non-diet, weight-inclusive approach. Away from the therapy room, I like to have some kind of creative outlet, I’ve a real eagerness for wonder and adventure, and an equal, if not bigger, love of doing absolutely nothing with a cuppa.
I hold a CPCAB Level 5 Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling and I’m a Registered Member of the BACP (MBACP), working within their ethical framework. Alongside my counselling training, I hold a BSc (Hons) in Paramedic Practice and an MSc in Human Nutrition, both from the University of Plymouth, and I’m an HCPC-registered paramedic.
My continuing professional development includes training in applying intuitive eating and non-diet approaches in practice.
I see clients in person at two locations in Cornwall: in Penryn (TR10), a couple of minutes from Falmouth, and at 77 Lemon Street in the centre of Truro (TR1) — as well as online, wherever you are. I work weekdays and some evenings and sessions are £50.
I welcome people from across Falmouth, Penryn, Truro and the surrounding villages, including Mylor, Mabe, Constantine, Stithians and Perranarworthal.
If travelling doesn’t suit you, or you’d simply prefer it, we can meet online.
To Contact Mel, please complete the following form.
Please do not include any private details in this form. If you are looking to book a session, Mel will contact you to arrange a convenient time for a free 15-minute consultation.
No. I work across the whole spectrum, from a diagnosed eating disorder to a complicated relationship with food, body or eating that’s never had a label. If it’s taking up space in your life, it’s worth bringing.
Yes. I see clients in person in Penryn and Truro, and online across Cornwall and beyond, so we can find whatever feels most accessible for you.
The first step is a free 15-minute consultation — a low-pressure chance to talk about what’s bringing you, and to see whether we feel like a good fit before anything else.