Eating disorder & disordered-eating therapy

A softer way
back to your
body.

Book an introductory meeting

Online wherever you are.

Is this you?

The thoughts you don't say out loud.

If you're nodding, you're exactly who I work with.

Who I help →

I've tried everything. Nothing works.

I look fine. Inside, it's exhausting.

I can't tell anymore if I'm hungry, or just anxious.

I want to stop. I just don't know how or who I am without it.

How the work goes deeper

The real work is underneath the food.

Eating is where the pain becomes visible. It's rarely where it begins. Schema Therapy lets us follow it down, and tend to what's actually driving it.

01 · surface
Food, the mirror, the rules

The rituals and the numbers: what brought you here.

02 · beneath
What the eating manages

The feelings it numbs, soothes, or holds at bay.

03 · parts
The parts of you at play

The critic, the protector, the younger you: the modes you move between.

04 · needs
The needs underneath

Core emotional needs that went unmet, and still ask to be met.

05 · roots
Where it began

Early experiences, and the temperament you were born with.

Quietening the symptom is where we begin, not where we stop. We work at the level that actually lasts.

Zeynep Demirelli Sağ, MSc, eating disorder therapist, holding a notebook in her study

About me

I'm Zeynep Demirelli Sağ, MSc.

I battled my own eating disorder voice for years. My lived experience taught me what therapy textbooks couldn't, and that's the work I bring to every session.

Know all the theories, master all the techniques. But as you touch a human soul, just be another human soul.

Background

Where the work comes from.

Training
Leiden UniversityMSc Psychology · integrative clinical orientation
NIP psychologistNetherlands Institute of Psychologists
Schema TherapyBasic Level · Eating Disorders · Advanced Experiential Techniques · Ongoing supervision
Reach
95,000+ community@realistic.body.therapist · Instagram
Substack, weeklyOn recovery, body image & clinical practice
Recognition
The European ParliamentInvited speaker: social media & eating disorders in youth

Two gentle ways to begin.

Sessions run 50 minutes: the first intro call is free and online. We can meet online, or in person on request, in Turkish or English. Sessions are €100, with a sliding scale available on request.