Dr Laurel Edmunds is a child/adolescent weight management specialist with 18 years of experience. Her areas of expertise include the psycho-social aspects of childhood obesiity weight management evaluations and interview-based research. She was a Specialist Advisor to the Health Select Committee’s obesity inquiry and a psychologist in the children’s obesity clinic at the Bristol Royal Children’s Hospital. She integrates her experience of positive psychology interventions with weight management to improve wellbeing for all ages. Laurel works at the University of Oxford and as an independent consultant - advisor, coach, facilitator, and researcher.

Workshops, evaluations and research

She believes that effective interventions need to be child/family/participant centred. To this end she can bring her unique experience of her pastoral care of children, her education background, research and practice skills together to help other pratitioners and researchers.

Her book, Management of Childhood Obesity, with Dr Elizabeth Poskitt OBE is available from Cambridge University Press. The book can be purchased from Amazon.co.uk.

Her latest chapter Fussy mothers and fuzzy boundaries can be found in the Psychology of Family Relationships published by Nova Science Publishers.

NEW: information sheets for young people - see Resources. They are written for young people on topics they feel are important,but may also be useful to teachers and health professionals.

In this website you can find out about Laurel Edmunds, read an overview of her qualifications and awards and view an overview of her media experience. You can also view an extensive list of publications by Laurel.

You can contact Laurel Edmunds by telephone or email.