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Binge Free Bestie Nicole Gaviria | Registered Counsellor
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Kia ora, I'm Nic (she/her), a Registered Counsellor based in Christchurch, New Zealand. I specialize in supporting people like you recover from disordered eating, ditch diet culture and reclaim their life and their vibrancy. My journey as a Therapist stems from my own recovery from Binge Eating Disorder and years of navigating body image struggles. I've overcome the entanglements of diet culture,

body dissatisfaction, anxiety, and depression. I've also experienced life in a body of every shape and size; I know what it's like to feel invisible. To feel that my weight dictated my worth and how much love I deserved. My quest for happiness and belonging led me to choose weight loss surgery, and when I achieved my dream body, I discovered that it didn't bring the peace and joy I sought. That's when I realised that there was more work to be done and I embarked on the journey of healing my body image, and my relationship with food and eating. These personal experiences, combined with the challenges of finding support during my own struggles, motivate my therapeutic approach. In our sessions, I integrate evidence-based psychotherapy modalities, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy-Enhanced, Mindfulness-Based Therapy, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Embracing an Anti-Diet, Health at Every Size philosophy, my aim is to cultivate a secure and non-judgmental space for your self-exploration and positive transformation. Alongside my specialized focus on body image and eating issues, I also work with a range of other mental health concerns including anxiety and depression.

I always had a sneaky suspicion I was a bit neuro-spicy. Didn’t know for sure until two months ago.Getting diagnosed wit...
25/06/2026

I always had a sneaky suspicion I was a bit neuro-spicy. Didn’t know for sure until two months ago.

Getting diagnosed with ADHD at 32 was like finally getting the missing piece of a puzzle I’d been trying to solve my whole life.

Because here’s what nobody told me when I was spending $40k on diet programs and literally having 80% of my stomach surgically removed:
Women with ADHD are 4x more likely to struggle with binge eating.

FOUR TIMES.

Not because we’re weak. Not because we lack willpower. Because our brains are wired differently, running on lower dopamine and constantly searching for ways to get more.

And food? She delivers. Fast. Reliably. Every single time.

Looking back at my food history through this lens just confirms what I already felt in my bones: I was never fighting a fair fight.

The all-or-nothing cycles. The “start fresh Monday” that crashed by Wednesday. The bingeing, the restricting, the hating myself, the doing it all over again.
It wasn’t a character flaw. It was my brain doing exactly what it was designed to do.

I’ve been binge-free since 2019, not because I finally got disciplined, but because I learned the biology and psychology behind it all. Diet culture. Nervous system dysregulation. And now, the ADHD piece.

If this is hitting different for you right now, you’re not alone bestie 💜

Comment HEAL and I’ll send you my free guide on the 3 root causes behind binge eating (and what actually helps).

24/06/2026

Lights off. Sheets up. Certain parts only.

I thought that was just how intimacy worked when you didn't feel good in your body.

Nobody told me my relationship with food was quietly running my relationship full stop.

This week's poddy episode goes somewhere the wellness world almost never does.

Body shame, checking out, pulling back, and what actually changed when I started healing.

It's an honest one. You'll want to hear it.

Comment PODCAST and I'll send you the link 💜

23/06/2026

I did a deep dive on Reta this week because it genuinely terrifies me.

Not because I think anyone using it is doing something wrong. But because people are injecting unregulated compounds into their bodies, ordered via WhatsApp, shipped from overseas, no screening, no prescription, no questions.

I messaged the account myself. “Do you ship to NZ?” Yep. Easy.

Imagine your daughter, your niece, your best friend who’s been struggling with her body for years, she could have this in her hands by the weekend. And if something goes wrong? She’s probably not telling her doctor. She’s sitting in silence, in pain, in shame.

This is diet culture at its most dangerous.

If you see these accounts, mute them, report them, block them. And if you’re the one tempted, I see you, I get it, I know how desperate that pursuit of thinness can feel. But please. It’s not worth it 💜

I recorded a full episode on Reta and peptides this week. Comment RETA and I’ll send it to your DMs.

22/06/2026

My Australian besties have been bringing this up constantly. And here in New Zealand, even though access is limited right now, the content is already everywhere in our feeds.

So let's talk about it before it feels urgent.

New episode is all about Reta, peptides, and what's really going on behind the influencer content you're seeing. No shame, no lecture. Just the stuff you actually need to know.

Comment PODCAST and I'll send the link to your DMs, or find it in my bio. 💜

I used to rehearse my grocery shop like a court appearance.What goes in the trolley. What gets left behind. What angle t...
22/06/2026

I used to rehearse my grocery shop like a court appearance.

What goes in the trolley. What gets left behind. What angle to hold the basket so the person behind me could see the spinach and not the white bread I wanted.

I had rules for everything. No cereal. No chips unless they were "baked." Yoghurt had to be plain, unsweetened, under 100 calories. If I accidentally picked up something "bad," I'd put it back like I'd touched something hot.

And then I'd leave the store, bags of perfect groceries in the boot, and pull into Burger King on the way home. Five rodeo burgers. Eaten in the car park before Juan could see.

The groceries were a costume. The drive through was the truth.

Here's what I know now as a counsellor and someone who's been binge free since 2019: that performance costs you everything. The mental energy of scanning every label, every aisle, every item for whether it's "allowed." The exhaustion of keeping up appearances while you're falling apart privately.

The biscuit aisle didn't have power over me. The restriction I built around it did.

When I stopped giving foods a moral value, when bread was just bread and chips were just chips, something wild happened. I could walk through every aisle without my heart rate spiking. I could buy ice cream and it could sit in the freezer for a week. I could grocery shop without rehearsing first.

If your trolley tells one story and your car tells another, I get it. I lived there for years. You're not broken. You're running a system that was designed to fail. And you can stop performing whenever you're ready 💜

Comment HEAL and I'll send you my free guide, The Emotional Eater's Fix. It covers the three real reasons you feel out of control around food and what to do about each one 💜

19/06/2026

If you've seen Reta or peptide content online and thought... wait, should I be doing this? This episode is for you.

I'm not here to tell you what to do with your body. But I do want to make sure you have the full picture before you make any decisions. Because those reels are only showing you about 30 seconds of a much bigger story.

New episode out now. Comment PODCAST and I'll send you the link, or find it in my bio. 💜

$40,000. That’s what I spent trying to fix my body before I turned 30.Shakes, fat burners, gym memberships on credit car...
19/06/2026

$40,000. That’s what I spent trying to fix my body before I turned 30.

Shakes, fat burners, gym memberships on credit cards I couldn’t pay off. Diet programs that promised everything and delivered another binge by Wednesday. And a gastric sleeve surgery that gave me my “dream body” but didn’t touch the binge eating underneath.

I raided the house deposit I’d been saving since I was fourteen years old.

$40,000. Gone. And I still hated how I looked.

Because the problem was never my body. The problem was a billion dollar industry selling me the lie that if I just tried harder, restricted more, spent more, I’d finally be enough.

The thing that actually helped me stop binge eating? Cost less than one month of shakes. Therapy. Learning to eat again. Unlearning every rule that got me here.

I put everything I wish I’d known into a free guide called The Emotional Eater’s Fix. Comment HEAL and I’ll send it to your DMs 💜

I’m actually crying right now 🥹The Binge Free Bestie Podcast just hit #5 in New Zealand for Mental Health and #11 in H...
18/06/2026

I’m actually crying right now 🥹

The Binge Free Bestie Podcast just hit #5 in New Zealand for Mental Health and #11 in Health & Fitness, I cannot believe it!!

I record this in my spare room. Just me, a mic, and a deep desire to make sure women everywhere have access to real, shame-free support around food and their bodies.

No fancy studio. My gal Lana supporting me with editing 🥰 And a whole lot of love for this community, and apparently, a lot of you needed to hear what we’ve been talking about. (This weeks episode on Reta and peptides clearly was a goodie 👀)

This isn’t just a number to me. Every single ranking point represents a woman who found this podcast when she needed it most. And that is the whole point.

Thank you for listening. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for trusting me with this stuff.

We’re just getting started🎙️✨

17/06/2026

A friend sent me a reel. I DM’d the account like the caption told me to. She sent me a link to buy peptides.

No prescription. No doctor. Just add to cart.

This is SCARY 😦

I’ve done a full episode on Reta, research peptides, and the influencers selling them. What the science actually says, what you’re not seeing in those reels, and the question worth asking yourself before you click anything like that.

If this has been showing up in your feed, this episode is for you.

Comment PODCAST and I’ll send it straight to your DMs. Or find it wherever you listen via the link in my bio. 💜

17/06/2026

A friend sent me a reel. I DM'd the account like the caption told me to. She sent me a link to buy peptides.

No prescription. No doctor. Just add to cart.

I've done a full episode on Reta, research peptides, and the influencers selling them. What the science actually says, what you're not seeing in those reels, and the question worth asking yourself before you click anything like that.

If this has been showing up in your feed, this episode is for you.

Comment PODCAST and I'll send it straight to your DMs. Or find it wherever you listen via the link in my bio. 💜

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