A Mindala psychological programme
SAVOR
Awareness, choice, and balance with food
A space to understand the patterns between food, feelings and everyday life—and practise a more flexible, compassionate response.
In development and clinical review. Programme enrolment is not yet open.
Awareness becomes choice
Understand what happens. Choose what helps.
SAVOR is designed for adults whose assessment identifies emotional or behavioural difficulties around eating that merit psychological support. This may include distress, rigid rules, self-criticism or patterns that disrupt daily life.
Enjoying food or eating for comfort does not by itself mean you need treatment. The starting point is your experience, your needs and what you want to change.
How you enter the pathway
Assessment first. A shared decision next.
- Nutrition assessment
Review eating patterns, nourishment, routines, physical health and medicines.
- Psychological assessment, if indicated
With your agreement, a psychologist explores emotional links, safety and whether SAVOR or another approach is suitable.
- An agreed plan
Nutrition follow-up continues according to need. Psychiatric or medical care is included where indicated.
The proposed session journey
Eight core sessions. Room for individual needs.
Up to four additional sessions may be selected before the final consolidation session, making 8–12 psychological sessions in total. Nutrition appointments are separate and based on need.
Understand your story
Explore your relationship with food, agree meaningful goals and decide together whether this programme fits your needs.
Notice the patterns
Connect situations, thoughts, feelings and eating patterns through a brief, compassionate record. Choose a manageable first step.
Build supportive routines
Turn the nutrition plan into realistic daily routines, with practical alternatives for difficult days.
Make room for emotions
Understand emotional triggers, practise ways of responding and review progress with your care team at the midpoint.
Think more flexibly
Explore rigid food rules and self-critical thoughts. Agree safe, small experiments alongside your nutrition plan.
Practise body respect
Work on body-related distress, comparison or shame when relevant, and reconnect with activities that matter to you.
Strengthen support
Practise helpful communication and boundaries around food, and prepare for setbacks with a realistic support plan.
Carry your progress forward
Review what has helped, recognise early difficulties and agree continuing care, follow-up or referral.
Topics and practice are adapted with your psychologist. The final core session takes place after any selected additional work.
Additional support when useful
More time where it matters.
The plan may include selected work on one or more of these areas, guided by assessment and progress.
- Working with strong emotions
- Perfectionism and self-criticism
- Body image and meaningful activity
- Support, transitions and consolidation
Connected care
Psychology and nutrition, working toward shared goals.
Your psychologist helps you understand patterns, practise flexible thinking and respond to emotions. Your nutritionist supports adequate nourishment and realistic eating routines. The plan is reviewed together where appropriate, including a midpoint review.
Practice between sessions is agreed with you and supports your nutrition plan. Psychological skills are not used to ignore hunger or replace needed food.
A programme being developed with care
SAVOR draws on cognitive behavioural principles: understanding links between thoughts, feelings and actions, trying manageable changes, and reviewing what helps. Its 8–12-session format is an original Mindala design under clinical review; it has not yet been validated as a programme.
It is not a shortened CBT-E protocol or a substitute for specialist eating-disorder treatment. Assessment may identify a need for a different service or more intensive medical care.
Resources informing programme development
These professional resources inform review of relevant concepts; they do not validate or endorse SAVOR.
For immediate danger or urgent medical concerns, seek local emergency care. Urgent-help guidance.