Eating & Body Image Single Session Intervention
Focused psychological support. One 90-minute session.
Single Session Intervention (SSI) for Eating Disorders & Body Image
A Single Session Intervention (SSI) is a focused, 90-minute psychology session designed to help you understand and work on one specific difficulty related to eating, body image or your relationship with yourself.
Rather than trying to address everything at once, we identify what is keeping you stuck, understand the psychological patterns contributing to the problem, and work together on practical strategies you can continue using after the session.
The aim isn’t to solve everything in 90 minutes.
It’s to help you leave with greater understanding, a different way of approaching the problem, and a clear next step forward.
What can we work on?
Your session is personalised around the difficulty that is most relevant to you.
This may include:
Body image — feeling unhappy, preoccupied or critical about your appearance
Self-worth — feeling that your worth depends heavily on your weight, shape, eating or achievements
Self-criticism — experiencing a harsh inner voice or feeling that you're never good enough
Perfectionism — setting extremely high standards around food, appearance, exercise or other areas of life
Difficult emotions — using food, restriction or other behaviours to cope with uncomfortable emotions
Eating rules and rigid thinking — feeling stuck in strict ideas about what, when or how you “should” eat
Motivation and change — knowing you want things to be different but feeling unsure how to begin
Coping with uncertainty or change — using control around food, exercise or appearance when other areas of life feel uncertain
Social comparison and social media — noticing that comparison or online content is affecting how you feel about yourself or your body
You do not need to know which area you need to work on before your appointment. We can identify this together.
What happens during the 90-minute session?
1. Understand what's keeping you stuck
We start by identifying the particular problem you would like help with and looking at the thoughts, emotions and behaviours that may be maintaining it.
Instead of trying to cover every aspect of your relationship with food or your body, we'll identify one area where change may make a meaningful difference.
2. Learn
You'll develop a better understanding of the psychology behind the difficulty you're experiencing.
Depending on your individual situation, this might involve understanding how self-worth, perfectionism, body checking, avoidance, comparison, self-criticism, emotional regulation or rigid thinking can contribute to eating and body-image difficulties.
The goal is to help you make sense of why the pattern keeps happening—not simply tell you to stop doing it.
3. Do
Understanding something is only the beginning.
A significant part of the session is spent actively working on the problem together.
Depending on your needs, this might involve a behavioural experiment, developing more flexible responses to eating or body-image thoughts, working with your inner critic, diversifying your sources of self-worth, practising emotion-regulation strategies, challenging perfectionistic rules, or developing a different response to body-image distress.
4. Develop your plan
Before finishing, we'll translate what you've learned into a practical plan.
You'll identify what you want to practise, what might get in the way, and how you can respond when the old pattern appears again.
You'll leave with a personalised strategy to continue applying after the session.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A Single Session Intervention is not based on the idea that every psychological difficulty can be resolved in one appointment.
Instead, it asks a different question:
What useful change can we make with the time we have today?
Research into Single Session Interventions suggests that focused psychological interventions can provide meaningful support for some difficulties, particularly when they combine psychological education with active strategies and clear goals.
The approach used in this service draws on evidence-based psychological principles and emerging research into Single Session Interventions targeting factors associated with eating and body-image difficulties.
However, an SSI is not a replacement for comprehensive eating-disorder treatment when ongoing or multidisciplinary treatment is clinically indicated.
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Sometimes a single session will be all that you are looking for.
For others, the session may help identify that additional support would be beneficial.
If concerns arise suggesting that you would benefit from comprehensive eating-disorder assessment, medical or dietetic support, or ongoing psychological therapy, we can discuss appropriate next steps.
There is no expectation that you continue therapy after your Single Session Intervention.
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Before the session, you'll complete a short questionnaire about your current concerns.
This allows us to spend less of your appointment gathering background information and more time actively working on the issue you've come for help with.
Your responses will also help determine whether a Single Session Intervention is appropriate for your current needs.
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90-minute individual psychology session
Telehealth — available Australia-wide
Registered Psychologist
Eating disorder and body image focused
Fee: $300
Medicare rebates may be available if you have a valid referral from your GP and/or Mental Health Care Plan / Eating Disorders Plan.
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The fee for the 90-minute Single Session Intervention is $300, payable at the time of booking through the secure client portal. If you have a valid referral, Mental Health Treatment Plan or Eating Disorder Treatment and Management Plan, you can upload your referral when booking or email it to admin@thethrivingbee.com.au. Eligible clients will receive a Medicare rebate of approximately $101 after the session has been completed, reducing the out-of-pocket cost to approximately $199. If you have exceeded your Medicare safety net for the calendar year you will receive a higher rebate up to 80% of the session fee.
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Booking your Single Session Intervention is simple:
Register on our Client Portal and create your account.
Select “SSI EDP Service – Single Session Intervention for Eating Disorders.”
Choose the day and time that suits you and pay the $300 session fee securely through the Client Portal.
Complete your intake forms. These will be sent to you via email after booking. Please complete them before your appointment so we can make the most of your 90-minute session.
Provide your referral, if applicable. You can upload your valid referral, Mental Health Treatment Plan (MHTP) or Eating Disorder Treatment and Management Plan (EDP) directly through the Client Portal, or ask your GP to email it to admin@thethrivingbee.com.au.
Attend your appointment via Telehealth. At your scheduled appointment time, simply click the secure Telehealth link sent to you via email.
Receive your Medicare rebate. If you have a valid referral and meet Medicare eligibility requirements, your claim will be submitted after your appointment and the applicable Medicare rebate will be paid by Medicare into your nominated bank account.