Kel O’Neill is a UK-based counsellor, educator, researcher, and lived-experience advocate specialising in eating disorders. She is the founder of Mental Health Bites, creator of The Eating Disorder Recovery Companion, and the curator of VOXED – Voices of Experience in Eating Disorders. Kel’s work focuses on ethical, trauma-informed practice, challenging stigma, and bridging the gap between lived experience and professional knowledge.

This week, we discuss:

• What VoxED is and why Kel created it.
• Why eating disorder education often feels inaccessible, and what VoxED is doing differently.
• How VoxED broadens “lived experience” to include clinicians, carers, researchers and community voices.
• Why lived experience shouldn’t be tokenistic, and how it can be valued as expertise.
• Why the eati ...