Supporting recovery beyond
traditional outpatient care.
Many services focus on treating eating disorder symptoms. Next Steps focuses on helping individuals rebuild a meaningful life alongside symptom recovery.
Enhanced psychological and dietetic support.
We work alongside GPs, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, inpatient services and eating disorder teams to provide structured recovery support.
Next Steps Clinic provides a specialist eating disorder support pathway for individuals who require more than weekly outpatient appointments but do not meet the threshold for inpatient or intensive community services.
Our multidisciplinary approach combines specialist dietetic and psychological support to help individuals move from simply surviving their eating disorder to actively rebuilding their lives.
Many eating disorder services focus on treating the illness. Our pathway focuses on helping people build a life worth recovering for.
We recognise that eating disorders carry significant physical and psychological risks. Throughout the pathway we:
- Monitor eating disorder symptoms and behaviours
- Assess changes in risk presentation
- Identify indicators of deterioration
- Encourage engagement with medical monitoring where required
- Liaise with GPs and other treating professionals when clinically indicated
- Support individuals to recognise early warning signs of relapse
Next Steps Clinic does not replace medical management or emergency services. Individuals requiring urgent medical intervention, inpatient treatment or crisis support will be directed to the appropriate services.
Our work focuses on helping individuals rebuild a meaningful life and identity outside the eating disorder, reduce eating disorder behaviours, improve psychological flexibility, and strengthen support systems.
Where appropriate, we involve family members, carers and other professionals to improve consistency of support and recovery outcomes.
Nutritional rehabilitation:
- Establishing regular eating
- Nutritional rehabilitation
- Exposure work
- Meal planning
- Challenging food rules
- Managing weight restoration concerns
- Building confidence around food
Psychological recovery:
- Emotional awareness
- Distress tolerance
- Self-compassion
- Cognitive flexibility
- Relapse prevention skills
- Sustainable coping strategies
Our programme focuses on helping people move from understanding recovery intellectually to living recovery practically.
Four points of contact each week totalling
3 clinical hours ensures consistent support
between appointments and greater continuity
than traditional outpatient models.
We offer a 12-week structured pathway of enhanced care, including dietetic & psychological sessions, psychoeducation, goal setting & care planning, review meetings, and relapse prevention planning.
With client consent, we can provide referrers with:
- Initial assessment summary
- Formulation
- Progress updates
- Risk-related communications
- End-of-pathway summary and recommendations
We accept referrals from GPs & medical professionals, healthcare practitioners, therapists, mental health services, and universitiies & student support services.
It is quick and easy to submit an enquiry on our website or email us at hello@nextstepsclinic.com.
We will then contact you to briefly discuss your concerns and options.
You might consider a referral when an individual (aged 16+):
- Is medically stable but requires increased support
- Is struggling to translate therapy insights into everyday recovery
- Feels stuck despite engagement with treatment
- Is experiencing repeated lapses or relapse risk
- Has recently discharged from inpatient, day patient or specialist services
- Requires support with nutritional rehabilitation and behaviour change
- Is finding daily functioning increasingly restricted by their eating disorder
- Needs support reintegrating into work, education, relationships or social activities
- Would benefit from more frequent clinical contact than standard outpatient care can provide