Lauren’s eating disorder treatment is primarily informed by Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E), integrated with trauma-informed, somatic, schema-informed, narrative and culturally responsive practice. CBT-E provides a structured framework for understanding and treating the patterns that maintain eating disorder symptoms.

Therapy may focus on regular eating, self-monitoring, collaborative formulation, body image distress, body checking or avoidance, restriction, binge eating, compensatory behaviours, perfectionism, mood intolerance, self-criticism, relapse prevention and practical strategies for change.

Lauren adapts treatment to the person, not only the diagnosis. Her approach is size-inclusive, weight stigma-aware and neurodivergence-affirming, with attention to stage of change, developmental stage, culture, body size, sensory needs, communication style, executive functioning, interoception, support systems and readiness for change.

For adolescents, treatment is CBT-E informed and may include parent, carer, kin or chosen-support involvement where clinically appropriate. Where Family-Based Treatment, paediatric review, medical stabilisation or a higher level of support is indicated, Lauren supports referral pathways and collaboration with appropriate services.

Lauren works within a stepped-support framework, monitors clinical risk, communicates with referrers under Eating Disorder Plans and Better Access referrals, and supports escalation when a more intensive service is required.

Lauren Lynch is a proud Koorie woman, Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Medicare provider and ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician (Mental Health). She practises at Body Belonging Clinic, a private practice in Nedlands, Western Australia, providing eating disorder, body image and identity-affirming therapy for adults, adolescents and families. Sessions are available in person in Nedlands and via telehealth across Australia

Lauren supports people experiencing eating disorders, disordered eating and body image distress, including restriction, binge eating, compensatory behaviours, body checking or avoidance, ARFID and avoidant-restrictive eating patterns. She has particular experience supporting people where eating and body concerns occur alongside trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD, autism, AuDHD, sensory or interoceptive differences, psychosocial disability, identity stress, family stress or service-system barriers.

Body Belonging Clinic is Koorie-led, culturally safe, LGBTQIA+ affirming, trans-affirming, neurodivergence-affirming, size-inclusive and weight stigma-aware. Lauren’s work is grounded in the understanding that eating, body, trauma, neurodivergence, gender, sexuality, family, culture and systems are often deeply connected in recovery.

Lauren brings more than 15 years’ experience across eating disorder, mental health and community settings, including hospital, private practice, peer-led support and research contexts. Her work history includes eating disorder clinician roles at the Royal Children’s Hospital Victoria and Monash Health, foundational work with Eating Disorders Victoria’s Peer Mentoring Program, and broader experience across mental health social work, psychosocial disability, NDIS-related practice and community-based support. Lauren has also worked in leading queer and LGBTIQA+ organisations and is a board member of ADHD WA.

Lauren works collaboratively with clients, families, GPs, dietitians, psychiatrists, schools, NDIS supports and other providers where appropriate and with consent. Medicare Eating Disorder Plans, Better Access Mental Health Care Plans, selected private health, eligible NDIS self-managed or plan-managed arrangements and self-funded referrals are accepted.