Flinders University Services for Eating Disorders

What we do

The Flinders University Services for Eating Disorders (FUSED) provides evidence-based treatment for non-underweight eating disorders.

Currently, we are providing 10-session cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), a form of therapy that has been extensively evaluated and shown to substantially decrease disordered eating, depression, and anxiety, and improve quality of life. In line with best practice, we conduct a comprehensive initial assessment to ensure the treatment we provide is appropriate to address your individual needs and monitor your progress throughout treatment using brief questionnaires.

Treatment is provided free of charge in the context of research studies where we are investigating how to make established eating disorder treatments more effective.

We are currently recruiting for the treatment study below.

View our current study

Who we are

Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor Tracey Wade

Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor Tracey Wade has worked as a clinician in the area of eating disorders for 30 years and her current research interests are in the aetiology, prevention and treatment of eating disorders, with a focus on implementing this research into real world settings to improve outcomes in body image and eating disorders.

She has cowritten 3 therapy books and has over 200 publications in peer reviewed journals. In 2015 she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. In 2016 she was made an Inaugural Honorary Fellow of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy.

In 2017-18 she was the president of the Eating Disorder Research Society, and in 2018-2020 she was a member of the Million Minds Expert Advisory Panel. In 2019 she was appointed Fellow of the APS and is currently an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Eating Disorders.

She is the director of the Flinders University Services for Eating Disorders (FUSED), the Blackbird Research Initiative, and the Flinders University Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing research. Professor Wade is a member of the National Eating Disorders Collaboration steering committee commissioned by the Federal Government to inform policy development in the area of eating disorder prevention and treatment, and a member of the Eating Disorders Technical Advisory Committee, advising the Federal Department of Health on matters related to eating disorders.

Therapists working at the clinic

At various times we also have provisionally registered psychologists (postgraduate clinical psychology students from Flinders University) providing CBT-T at FUSED under expert supervision, provided by Professors Tracey Wade and Glenn Waller. Glenn Waller is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield who has worked as a clinician and researcher in the eating disorder field for over 25 years.

Our current treatment study

A randomized trial of ten-session cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-T) for eating disorders: Does personalisation of treatment lead to better outcomes?

The aim of this study is to see if we can help people with eating disorders get more out of therapy by supporting them with useful information before they start therapy.

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The work at FUSED is constantly evaluated, reviewed by peers, and published, meaning you're receiving high quality, evidence-based treatment. Discover some of our publications, which feature a selection of our approaches and results:

Ten session cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders: Outcomes from a pragmatic pilot study of Australian non-underweight clients

A pragmatic effectiveness study of 10-session cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT-T) for eating disorders: Targeting barriers to treatment provision

A randomized controlled trial of two 10-session cognitive behaviour therapies for eating disorders: An exploratory investigation of which approach works best for whom

Brief cognitive behavioural therapy for non-underweight patients