Sara Gilbert is a chartered clinical psychologist with over 30 years of experience. Her interest in problems with over and under eating developed out of a research project into the psychology of obesity in a hospital clinic in the 1980s. For the past twenty years she has specialised in the treatment of eating disorders, with people whose difficulties are expressed through eating too little or through problems with controlling what they eat. She recently retired from her NHS  post as joint service lead of the community eating disorders service in Bedfordshire (South Essex Partnership Trust) and now works in private practice in London.

Sara's approach to therapy is broadly cognitive behavioural but she sees herself as an integrative therapist in that she draws on a combination of several other approaches to inform her work. She believes that the role of the therapist is to work with clients to build a joint understanding of their current difficulties in order to develop a treatment plan which fits best with evidenced based ideas and the client's own objectives and aspirations. Her aim in therapy is to help clients to learn ways to make changes for themselves, so that they can work towards becoming their own therapist or coach.