Specialist Eating Disorder Therapy Clinic In London
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Dr Michele Lim
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
It is possible to feel exhausted by an eating disorder and, at the same time, unsure whether you are ready to change. Our work together can provide a safe space to understand the role your eating disorder has come to play in your life, while moving towards change that feels meaningful and manageable for you.
In therapy, we will build a shared understanding of what may have led to your difficulties and what is keeping them going. This helps us focus on what is most relevant to you, rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach. Alongside working directly with eating disorder thoughts and behaviours, we may explore other aspects such as perfectionism, self-esteem, relationships, or attachment. I also offer practical tools and strategies that can help you put change into practice between sessions.
An important part of my work is helping people build a life and sense of identity that extends beyond food and their body. I am passionate about helping individuals reconnect with what matters to them and create a bigger life beyond their current challenges.
Having lived and worked internationally, I am particularly interested in how culture can shape our relationships with food, our bodies, and ourselves. I also have experience working with dancers and athletes, and understand the particular pressures these environments can place.
Background and Training
I completed a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at University College London (UCL) and an MSc in Psychological Research at the University of Oxford, where my research focused on anxiety, stress, and binge eating. My clinical experience spans adult and adolescent services in Singapore and the UK, including outpatient and inpatient care. Alongside my work at Treating Disorders, I work as a Clinical Psychologist in a specialist NHS adult eating-disorders service in London.
My broader clinical experience includes work with neurodiversity, trauma-informed care, attachment, and relational difficulties. Eating disorders have also been a longstanding focus of my research, and I have published and presented my work internationally.
Publications
Lim, M. C., Parsons, S., Goglio, A., & Fox, E. (2021). Anxiety, stress, and binge eating tendencies in adolescence: A prospective approach. Journal of Eating Disorders, 9, 94. P Bergen, C., Bortolotti, L., Tallent, K., Broome, M., Larkin, M., Temple, R., Fadashe, C., Lee, C., Lim, M. C., & McCabe, R. (2022). Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance. Theory & Psychology, 32(5), 667–690.
Larkin, M., McCabe, R., Bortolotti, L., Broome, M., Craythorne, S.-L., Temple, R., Lim, M., et al. (2025). Being understood: Epistemic injustice towards young people seeking support for their mental health. In L. Bortolotti (Ed.), Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare: Recognising Agency and Promoting Virtues Across the Life Span (pp. 1–22). Palgrave Macmillan.
Bergen, C., Bortolotti, L., Temple, R. K., Fadashe, C., Lee, C., Lim, M., & McCabe, R. (2023). Implying implausibility and undermining versus accepting peoples’ experiences of suicidal ideation and self-harm in Emergency Department psychosocial assessments. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1197512.
Larkin, M., Bortolotti, L., & Lim, M. (2024). Expertise as perspectives in dialogue. In M. Farina, A. Lavazza, & D. Pritchard (Eds.), Expertise: Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 65–84). Oxford University Press.
Parsons, S., Todorovic, A., Lim, M. C., Songco, A., & Fox, E. (2022). Data and protocol for the Oxford Achieving Resilience During COVID-19 (ARC) Study. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 10(1), 4.
Miyamoto, K., Trudel, N., Kamermans, K., Lim, M. C., Lazari, A., Verhagen, L., Wittmann, M. K., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2021). Identification and disruption of a neural mechanism for accumulating prospective metacognitive information prior to decision-making. Neuron, 109(8), 1396–1408.e7.
Parsons, S., Azevedo, F., Elsherif, M. M., Guay, S., Shahim, O. N., Govaart, G. H., et al. (2022). A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 312–318.
Therapeutic Approaches Offered