Lisa Bloom

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
CREDENTIALED EATING DISORDER CLINICIAN
BOARD-APPROVED SUPERVISOR

BA(Hons)Psych; MPsych(Clinical); MAAPi

Lisa is a clinical psychologist, credentialed eating disorder clinician, and board-approved supervisor who enjoys working with adolescents and adults. She has completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Psychology and a Masters of Clinical Psychology. Before moving into private practice, Lisa spent many years in the public sector across a range of settings, including at the only youth Eating Disorders Day Program in Victoria.

Lisa supports individuals navigating a range of eating disordered presentations. She values therapeutic work that looks beyond diet and weight and focuses on understanding the root causes of a person’s relationship with food and their body. Lisa also enjoys working with clients who find themselves in patterns of unhealthy relationships, anxiety, perfectionism, people pleasing, self criticism, and chronic unhappiness. She is passionate about supporting clients who are ready to move past their inner critic and the habits that keep them stuck, and she values walking alongside them as they move toward living a life that feels grounded, peaceful, and fulfilling.

While Lisa is a therapist, she is a human first and believes therapy should feel safe and approachable. She welcomes all body shapes, sizes, and identities and practices from a weight inclusive framework, aligning with the Health at Every Size (HAES) approach.

Although Lisa draws on a range of traditional evidence based interventions for eating disorders, including Family Based Therapy (FBT) and Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT-E), her work is primarily grounded in Schema Therapy. Schema Therapy offers a trauma informed framework that supports clients to see their eating disorder and body image concerns as a survival strategy formed in response to unmet emotional needs and traumatic experiences. Lisa works with people to heal from these experiences in both body and mind, build self compassion, and move toward living a life with a more balanced, flexible, and meaningful relationship with food, their bodies, and themselves.

Lisa is registered with the Psychology Board of Australia (AHPRA) and is a member of the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPi).