Freyia Lilian (she/her)
is a therapist &
personal stylist exploring the relationship to embodiment, self expression, eating & body image.
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Interested in working together on exploring your relationship to your body and/or personal style? Let’s have a chat and see how we click.
I offer all potential clients a free 45 minute consultation online via Google Meet.
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Our 45 minute consultation is your chance to share what you’d like support with - whether that’s reconnecting with your body; improving your relationship with food and eating; exploring personal style; or creating a bespoke, integrative approach tailored to you.
If we decide to work together, we begin with a Discovery Period: up to 6 pay-as-you-go sessions designed to explore, clarify, and ground your intentions.
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During our Discovery Period we’ll take time to understand your current experiences, explore what you’re seeking support with, and agree on a meaningful departure point and focus for our Ongoing work together.
You’re welcome to up to 6 Discovery Sessions - all on a pay-as-you-go-basis - either booked one at a time or in a block. You can also experiment with session length and pacing to see what suits you.
I offer 1 hour, 90 minute or 2 hour sessions:Online via Google Meet:
In person at Projects in Brighton & Hove
Out in the world - for field work, personal shopping trips, Food Peacemaking excursions and more
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The sixth and final Discovery Session is also our first Review. Review sessions are set aside to reflect on how you’re experiencing our work so far, and to explore whether - and how - you’d like to continue.
If we choose to move forwards together, we’ll also use this session to co-create your first bespoke Ongoing Agreement which outlines:The length of your initial Ongoing Period
The frequency and duration of our sessions
The date of your next Review
The cost and Payment Plan
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Once your Agreement is signed, we’ll begin your first Ongoing Period - this is the phase where your journey truly deepens.
Depending on the nature of our exploration, ongoing work can take the form of seated conversation or walking and talking, guided somatic practice, shopping trips, eating together, moodboard making and more.
The final session of this first Ongoing Period will be our second Review. During this session, we’ll reflect on your exploration so far, assess the focus of our work, and adjust your Agreement as needed - including the length of your next Ongoing Period and the timing of your next Review.
If we feel our work together has come to it’s natural close, we can arrange an optional Closing Session to honour and integrate the process. -
At the end of our time working together, you have the option of taking part in a Closing Session. This is a space for integration: to celebrate your wins, reflect on what you’ve discovered, and - if relevant - gently explore your transition into the next chapter of your self exploration story.
What to expect.
“I feel I am at the beginning of a very meaningful process. ”
— Julie D, Current Client
Practice philosophies.
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Developed by seasoned dieticians Elyse Resch (my wonderful supervisor) and Evelyn Tribole, Intuitive Eating is a therapeutic, evidence-based framework that is:
Weight inclusive by design
Grounded in clinical research and practice
Created to improve the relationship with food, eating and embodiment
Resch describes Intuitive Eating as“a dynamic interplay of instinct, emotion and thought.” It is build around 10 core ‘Principles’, each supporting you to:Reattune to your interoceptive (internal bodily sensation) awareness
Explore your beliefs, emotions and inherited rules around food, eating and the body
Intuitive Eating is rooted in social justice and firmly opposed to diet culture.
In my therapeutic work, I draw on this framework to offer my clients practical, compassionate tools and points of enquiry as we gently examine and repair their relationship to their bodies. -
Developed by psychologist, neuroscientist, and researcher, Dr Steven Porges, Polyvagal Theory maps three core states of the autonomic nervous system:
Calm - governed by the ventral vagal pathway
Mobilised (the ‘fight or flight’ stress response) - governed by the sympathetic nervous system
Immobolised (the ‘collapse’ stress response) - governed by the dorsal vagal pathway.
These states can also blend into the hybrid states of:Curious Activity - Calm combined with Mobilisation
Relaxation - Calm combined with Immobilisation
The ‘Freeze’ stress response - Mobilised combined with Immobilisation
I draw on Polyvagal Theory to help my clients recognise their unique embodied sense of safety and threat - and, if they choose, to develop ways of befriending and regulating these states. -
Embodied Styling is my unique approach to personal styling. It considers:
How clothing feels on the body
The emotions and associations clothes can evoke - in you, and in those around you
Comfort - defined on your terms - as a core priority
That understanding that there’s no single ‘right’ way to dress; it’s always contextual and personal
The awareness that how much value we place on appearance varies between people, and can shift over time
This approach invites curiosity around:How you currently perceive style
The feelings you hold about the way you dress right now
What truly matters to you when it comes to clothing
What your style might be communicating - and whether that matters to you
How you might experiment with intentional changes, if that feels right
Expect deep dive conversations, playful Pinterest dates, and unexpectedly practical adventures into the dressing up box.
Sessions are priced on a sliding scale.
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I am able to offer one free place at a time for a client who cannot afford the lowest price of my reduced fee bracket.
While I would love to have more resources to support more clients who can’t afford to pay for my services, this is what I’m currently able to offer - and I hope to expand this in the future.
Although I’m glad to volunteer my time, I’m currently not in a position to cover additional costs such as room hire for in-person sessions at Projects, or expenses related to outcalls. For free sessions IRL, any such costs will need to be covered by the client.
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Online
1 hour
£15 - £49
90 mins
£25 - £74
2 hours
£30 - £99///
IRL @ Projects, Nile Street, Brighton, BN1 1HW
1 hour
£55 - £89
2 hours
£105 - £174///
Outcalls
1 hour
£15 - £49
90 mins
£25 - £74
2 hours
£30 - £99
+ expenses -
Online
1 hour
£50
90 mins
£75
2 hours
£100///
IRL @ Projects, Nile Street, Brighton, BN1 1HW
1 hour
£90
2 hours
£175///
Outcalls
1 hour
£50
90 mins
£75
2 hours
£100
+ expenses
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I stand by The Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH)in affirming that health:
“…cannot be characterised as the absence of physical or mental illness, limitation, or disease. Rather, health exists on a continuum that varies with time and circumstance for each individual. Health should be conceived as a resource or capacity available to all regardless of health condition or ability level, and not as an outcome or objective of living. Pursuing health is neither a moral imperative nor an individual obligation, and health status should never be used to judge, oppress, or determine the value of an individual.”
I welcome clients whose physical, cognitive, emotional and/or circumstantial challenges impact their day-to-day life. However, please note that my work is not:Medical model eating disorder treatment
Nutritional work with a dietician or nutritionist
Psychological support from a licensed mental health professional
Medical care from a physician
Crisis or emergency care
As a GSRD (gender, sex and relationship diversity) aware practitioner, my practice is queer and trans affirming, and kink abd non-monogamy aware.
I recognise the existence and harm caused by patriarchy and how this cultural structure negatively effects people of all genders and sexes.
I also acknowledge that people of colour continue to face widespread and intersecting forms of discrimination.
I offer sliding scale fees and hold one free slot in my schedule for those on low or no income.
My practice is open to people of all faiths, spiritual beliefs or lack of.
And - I acknowledge that as a human being, I am not free from error. I am committed to continually unlearning the ways in which my thinking, feeling and actions have been shaped by systemic social injustices.
I believe the current mainstream culture - in the UK at least, where I live - frequently teaches and promotes disconnection from our bodies, encouraging us to ignore or override their basic needs. My work - both therapeutic and stylistic - is my quiet act of peaceful protest.
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