Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 May 2022

Joint Committee On Health

Eating Disorders: Bodywhys

Ms Kathy Downes:

Our SeeMySelf programme was created by SilverCloud Health, probably in 2014. It is an online programme for young persons aged between 16 years and 23 years. It is less specifically orientated towards eating disorders and is more about body image, negative body image, self worth and self esteem. The young people engage over an eight-week period. All the programmes are online. They have a journal. It is very cognitive behavioural therapy-based. They have lots of exercises and lots of things in which they actively engage. Once weekly they have a mentor or supporter who emails them, goes through the material, asks how they are getting on and talks them through things.