About the FREED Network

The FREED Network consists of all services using FREED – First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders. The Network is coordinated by the FREED team at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Eating Disorder Service. However, collaboration and cross-site learning is encouraged across all services in the Network and the Maudsley team welcomes feedback and input from other services.

Register with FREED to access the professional training platform and toolkit – an online training package and implementation toolkit for services interested in adopting FREED. This material is free for NHS professionals but requires registration to access.

The Maudsley team provides training in FREED for all services joining the Network. This training is currently free for NHS services. Subsequently, learning events are arranged 1-2 times per year. These allow services in the Network to meet and collaborate and to hear of developments and outcomes across the FREED Network and in the field of early intervention for eating disorders.

Services involved in the FREED Network share a core set of de-identified data, including waiting times for treatment and basic clinical outcomes, on a quarterly basis. This information is reported as anonymous, pooled data for the FREED Network as a whole but each service also receives a summary of their local outcomes. Research collaboration is very welcome when services are interested in this.

FREED Network Members

Can I join the FREED Network?

Our goal is to help all NHS eating disorder services adopt FREED. If your service is interested, please contact Jessica Griffiths, Eating Disorders Therapist & FREED National Co-lead (Maudsley) or Giulia Di Clemente, Senior Counselling Psychologist and FREED National Co-lead (Maudsley). You may also want to download our quiz to see how ‘FREED Ready’ you are.


We are also interested in helping services outside of the UK adopt FREED. Again, if you are interested, please get in touch with Jessica Griffiths or Giulia Di Clemente.


If you would like to share your experiences of having an eating disorder or receiving eating disorder treatment, or of caring for someone with an eating disorder, we would love to hear from you too. We continually evaluate what we do based on feedback from service users and the community.

The FREED team

Ulrike Schmidt

Professor of Eating Disorders, Consultant Psychiatrist and FREED Executive Director (Kings College London)

Karina Allen

FREED Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Jessica Griffiths

Eating Disorders Therapist & FREED National Co-lead (Maudsley)

Giulia Di Clemente

Senior Counselling Psychologist and FREED National Co-lead (Maudsley)

Danielle Glennon

Clinical Lead/Principal Psychotherapist (Maudsley)

Lucy Hyam

PhD Student (Maudsley)

Regan Mills

Research Assistant (Maudsley)

Muhammad Ahmed

Assistant Psychologist (Maudsley)

Jessica Wilkins

PhD Student (Maudsley)

Louise Melhuish

Clinical Psychologist and FREED Champion (Hampshire)

Amie Buckley

Psychological Therapist and FREED Champion (Black Country)

Louise Willis-Richards

FREED Champion and Occupational Therapist (Cornwall)

Katherine Webley

Nurse Therapist / Non-medical Prescriber and FREED Champion (Derbyshire)

Beth Wilks

FREED Champion & Occupational Therapist (West Essex)

Charlotte Terry

Eating Disorder Family Practitioner and FREED Champion (Hull)

Laura Mumford

Eating Disorders Therapist and FREED Champion (Leicestershire)

Ellie-May Watkins

Assistant Psychologist (Leicestershire)

Charlotte Long

Senior Eating Disorders Practitioner & FREED Co-ordinator (Lincolnshire)

Hannah Gordon

FREED Champion / Clinical Psychologist (Liverpool)

Mike Lewis

FREED Champion / Specialist Nurse (Liverpool)

Siobhan Connor

Psychological Therapist and FREED Champion (Manchester)

Zoe Tsivos

Clinical Psychologist/FREED Champion (Greater Manchester/Salford)

Catherine White

Senior Specialist Nurse & FREED Champion (Kent & Medway)

Lucy Owen

Counsellor & FREED Champion (SET CAMHS, Essex)

Sinead Smithson

FREED Champion and Specialist Mental Health Nurse (Nottinghamshire)

Kirsty Manning

Counselling Psychologist / FREED Champion (South-West London & St George's)

Claire Killengray

Mental Health Practitioner / FREED Champion (Surrey & Borders)

David Tate

Senior Eating Disorders practitioner & FREED Champion (Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys) / Project Lead FREED, AHSN NENC (Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear)

Rashmeet Gupta

CBT Therapist and FREED Champion (West London)

Charlotte Dacey

FREED Champion/Clinical Psychologist (Liverpool and Sefton)

Vicky Tinker

Clinical Psychologist (Liverpool and Shefton) & FREED Champion (Liverpool and Sefton)

Radost Ruseva

CBT Therapist & FREED Lead (Stockport)

Victoria Frater

FREED Champion (Northumberland)

Stephanie Wild

Senior Nurse Practitioner (Knowsley and St Helens)

Sarah Bosworth

Senior Counselling Psychologist & FREED Champion (Northamptonshire)

Heidi Jackson

Mental Health Social Worker/Psychological Therapist & FREED Champion (Berkshire)

Emer Quinn

Occupational Therapist & FREED Champion (CNWL)

Rebecca Gordon

Clinical Psychologist & FREED Champion (Birmingham)

Sharon White

Clinical Nurse Specialist, FREED Champion (Suffolk)

Kim Flockton

Clinical Lead (Hull)

Tracy Teng

Principal Clinical Psychologist / Clinical Lead (West London)

Vicky Smith

Senior Eating Disorder Practitioner and FREED Champion

Julie Evans

Psychological Therapies Team Lead

Katherine Webley

Team Manager/Nurse Therapist/FREED Champion

Amy Walton

FREED Practitioner

Amy Flatley

Senior Eating Disorder Practitioner & FREED Coordinator

Robyn Macdivitt

Trainee CB Therapist/FREED Coordinator

Queen Nyandoro

Advanced Practitioner & FREED Champion (Cambridge)

Camilla Parker

Specialist Eating Disorder Nurse & FREED Champion (Leeds & York)

Meghan O'Connor

Specialist Mental Health Practitioner/FREED Pathway Lead

Katie Whitworth

Clinical Specialist Practitioner & FREED Champion (Leeds & York)

Emily Palmer

Clinical Psychologist & FREED Champion (Sussex)

Register with FREED to access the professional training platform and toolkit

An online training package and implementation toolkit for services interested in adopting FREED. This material is free for NHS professionals but requires registration to access.


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Resources for healthcare professionals

Free to use and share with no registration required

Helpful guides for healthcare professionals

FREED Newsletter, Issue 1

Information for GPs

Risk Assessment

Fitness to Study

Video Guide for GPs

Inspiring stories for healthcare professionals

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Explore the role of FREED Champions

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Experiences of FREED in the Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT).

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How FREED began at the Maudsley Eating Disorders Service, part of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM).

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Helping patients and carers with FREED

Free to use and share with no registration required

Helpful guides to share with patients and carers

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Emerging Adulthood

Healthy Eating

Bone Health

The Brain And Eating Disorders

Social Media and Apps

Preparing for University

Eating With Confidence

Fitness to Study

Travel Advice

Seeking Help

Inspiring stories to share with patients and carers

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Social media, food and me - animation

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Nick* received treatment through FREED in London. He shares his experiences with treatment.

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Olivia received treatment through FREED in London. She shares her experiences of her eating disorder, treatment and recovery.

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Hannah is an advocate for eating disorder awareness and support. She shares her experiences with eating disorder treatment and recovery outside of FREED.

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Hannah received treatment through FREED in London. She shares her experiences of the initial assessment session at her eating disorder service.

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A video overview of FREED – First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders.

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Anna received treatment through FREED in Leeds. She shares her experiences of treatment and recovery in video form.

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Alex’s story – Eating disorders aren’t just about food.

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Marissa has recovered from anorexia nervosa and is an advocate for eating disorder awareness, treatment and recovery.

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F received treatment through FREED in London. She shares her road to recovery in words and photography.

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Bobbi received treatment through FREED in London. She shares her experiences of her eating disorder, treatment and recovery.

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Phoebe received treatment through FREED in London. She shares her experiences of her eating disorder, treatment and recovery.

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Sarah is the mother of Issy, a young person who received treatment through FREED. Sarah shares her experiences of living with and supporting Issy as she accessed treatment.

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Erin received treatment through FREED in London. She shares her experiences of her eating disorder, treatment and recovery.

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Shilla received treatment through FREED in London. She shares her experiences of her eating disorder, treatment and recovery.

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Abi received treatment through FREED in London. She shares her experiences of her eating disorder, treatment and recovery.

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FREED Network Research

Part of what makes FREED special is that it is an evidence-based intervention. It was developed out of evidence and research, and it has been thoroughly evaluated so that we know it works.


This makes it really important that we continue to evaluate the effectiveness of FREED in different settings and for different patient groups. We ask all teams in the FREED Network to gather the same core strands of data and provide these to us so that we can build a national data set. This means that we can:


Further evaluate the effectiveness of FREED as a model of early intervention for eating disorders.

Help each partner site in the FREED Network to monitor the effectiveness of FREED in their service.

Better understand cost and cost-effectiveness of implementing FREED in UK services.

We welcome research collaboration from different groups and members of the FREED Network are also involved in other national and international research projects for eating disorders.

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