Effectiveness of Group EFT for Transdiagnostic Eating Disorders/Difficulties Within Student Counselling Services.

The EFT group intervention: Taming the Inner Critic: Emotion-Focused Group Therapy for Eating and Body Concerns. This group is a 10-12 week (number of participants=8-10 +2 sessions) closed therapy group for students seeking support regarding issues related to eating and/or body concerns. Working one-to-one and within the group, group members will be facilitated to recognise and explore some of the difficult emotions underlying and driving eating and/or body related issues. In particular, the group will focus on 'taming' the inner critic, that part of ourselves that criticises or chastises us for not being good enough. By identifying the critic in ourselves and by witnessing it in others, group members will be better positioned to figure out what they really need from themselves at times of difficulty, and thus better able to access self-compassion and self-assertion. There will be some psychoeducation, both around eating and emotions, but this will be largely in a handout format, with

Treatment that would otherwise be offered by the university counselling service (one on one counselling, a group, or signposting to external support).