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Courage
Starting your journey to freedom from an eating disorder takes courage. We support you or your child to take the first step to recovery.
Confidence
Feel confident with personalised strategies to overcome the challenges of eating disorders and live a more comfortable, enjoyable and healthy life.
Balance
Bring balance back to your life. Balance your mood, thoughts, appetite and activities. Bringing space and focus back to everyday life.
Myrtle Oak Clinic, Central Coast & Newcastle Eating Disorder Services
At Myrtle Oak Clinic we believe you can get the right support to help free yourself from the burden of an eating disorder.
Here, you’ll find a team of expert Psychologists and Dietitians with a special focus on the counselling and treatment of individuals (children, adults and families) with difficulties around eating attitudes and eating behaviours, body image issues, unhealthy dieting practices and clinical eating disorders.
We’re here to support anyone who wants to change their relationship with their mind, food and body.
Find the path to support.
Take the next step with Myrtle Oak Eating Disorder Clinic
Let’s talk
Call the clinic and talk with our staff who will ask some screening questions to help match you with the right professional.
Let’s create a plan
At your first appointment with the Dietitian or Psychologist, you’ll meet, discuss options and create a plan to move forward.
Let’s start your journey
With a clear plan, we help you become free from all-encompassing food-thoughts and spend time enjoying life again.
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Access to the right team of multidisciplinary experts can help you achieve recovery from an eating disorder and give you back the energy to do the things you love
People with eating disorders and their families are seeking help and support to free themselves from the restrictions this form of illness creates in their life.
Whether this is the first time eating and body image has become a problem or the latest event in years of challenges, they’ve decided they need help from a specialist guide who understands them and their condition.
They need help from an expert guide who understands what they’re going through and can show them the best path towards recovery.
Myrtle Oak Clinic is a team of Psychologists and Dietitians who support people who want to change their relationship with food, eating and body image.
We support individuals and their families so they can be free from all-encompassing food-thoughts and instead spend their energy doing the things they love.
