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 Danielle Glennon, Clinical Lead/Principal Psychotherapist and FREED Service Lead. 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 Danielle Glennon.


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 Evaluation Lead (Kings College London)

Danielle Glennon

Clinical Lead/Principal Psychotherapist and FREED Service Lead (Maudsley)

Karina Allen

Principal Clinical Psychologist and FREED Network Lead (Maudsley)

Giulia Di Clemente

Senior Counselling Psychologist and FREED Network Coordinator (Maudsley)

Dr Sheryllin McNeil

Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Psychological Therapies Lead and FREED lead (Birmingham)

Amanda Davey

Clinical Psychologist & FREED Champion (Maudsley)

Louise Melhuish

Clinical Psychologist and FREED Champion (Hampshire)

Amie Buckley

Psychological Therapist and FREED Champion (Black Country)

Jess Leung

Assistant Psychologist (Black Country)

Rachel Fletcher

Counselling Psychologist in Training (Black Country)

Gemma Pike

Occupational Therapist, FREED Champion (Norfolk)

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)

Magdalene Sampson

Clinical Psychologist/Acting Clinical Lead (Greater Manchester)

Zoe Tsivos

Clinical Psychologist/FREED Champion (Greater Manchester/Salford)

Angelina Baslari

Counselling Psychologist / FREED Champion (Greater Manchester - Heywood, Middleton & Rochdale)

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)

Radost Ruseva

CBT Therapist & FREED Lead (Stockport)

Sarah Biddell

FREED Lead (Somerset)

Dominic Hiles

Principal Clinical Psychologist (Somerset)

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 Jewell

FREED Champion/Clinical Psychologist (Liverpool and Sefton)

Vicky Tinker

Clinical Psychologist (Liverpool and Shefton)

Victoria Frater

FREED Champion (Northumberland)

Dr Rebecca Gordon

Clinical Psychologist (Birmingham)

Stephanie Wild

Senior Nurse Practitioner (Knowsley and St Helens)

Kerry Green

Senior Eating Disorder Practitioner (North East Lincolnshire)

Dr Sarah Bosworth

Senior Counselling Psychologist (Northamptonshire)

Jeanette Hodgson

Senior Nurse Practitioner (West Yorkshire)

Camilla Harriet

Senior Nurse Practitioner (West Yorkshire)

Nadean Saberton

Occupational Therapist Advanced Practitioner (Cambridge and Peterborough)

Heidi Jackson

Mental Health Social Worker/Psychological Therapist (Berkshire)

Andrea Morrall

Clinical Nurse Specialist (Sheffield)

Oliver Rowe

Senior CBT Therapist (CNWL)

Emer Quinn

Occupational Therapist (CNWL)

Emily Brewer

CAMHS Eating Disorder Clinical Lead and FREED Coordinator (Lincolnshire)

Sharon White

Clinical Nurse Specialist, FREED Champion (Suffolk)

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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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