Fill The Gap Counselling Team
EDFA’s Fill The Gap counselling program provides essential access to tailored, online, one-on-one counselling support for carers of those with eating disorders.
Our Fill The Gap team comprises highly skilled team members who bring a wealth of experience, knowledge, and passion to ensure carers are provided with the support and education they need to become more effective supports for their loved one.
Mark Hill (he/him)
Fill The Gap Manager and Counsellor
Mark is an experienced, warm, and compassionate counsellor registered with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA – Level 4) and attained his Master of Counselling degree in 2008. For more than 20 years, Mark has been working in a variety of contexts supporting people impacted by a wide range of issues. This ranges from children’s counselling, youth work, domestic violence, clinical supervision, and working with Carers. Families and individuals affected by eating disorders have been prevalent in each of his roles. Mark takes a genuine interest in his clients using a trauma-informed, empathetic, and non-judgmental approach.
Mark uses several different modalities and theories in his counselling that are held together by a client-centred framework with first-hand knowledge of the impact of eating disorders on the family unit. Mark has also taught at a First Nations College in Canada and has a deep passion for working collaboratively alongside marginalised populations.
Mark loves to learn about the latest knowledge in therapies and utilises the evidence-based therapies of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution-Focused, Narrative, and Motivational Interviewing. He also has a solid understanding of the neuroscience of emotions. Mark is an avid reader of books and is always ready to share resources or simply listen.
Belinda Horton
Fill The Gap Counsellor
Belinda is not currently taking on new carers. Please either book with Ridhi Kapoor or Mark Hill.
Belinda is a mental health occupational therapist who has worked in mental health services for several decades. Her own experiences of eating disorders and recovery as a consumer and as a carer combine with her clinical skills as an ANZAED credentialed eating disorders clinician and in family therapy, attachment and trauma-informed interventions. Belinda draws on these many clinical and lived experience perspectives to support and equip parents, carers and families to build their understanding and knowledge, to find their own strengths and sustainability as they care for and support their loved one with an eating disorder.
Belinda believes deeply in the importance of the wellbeing of families in eating disorders recovery, for the best outcome for their family member and to reduce the devastating impacts eating disorders can have for everyone.
Ridhi Kapoor
Fill The Gap Counsellor
Ridhi is a Professional Member of the Australian Counselling Association and holds a Master of Counselling from Monash University. Her practice spans individual, relationship, family, and student counselling, as well as EAP settings.
She has worked closely with people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, neurodiverse individuals and those navigating relationship breakdown, grief, and trauma. Her approach is trauma-informed and person-centred, shaped by an understanding that families in crisis rarely present with one concern but with exhaustion, guilt, grief, and love, all tangled together.
Ridhi also brings lived experience to this role, having grown up in a family shaped by a loved one’s eating disorder, and by how little support or understanding was available to them at the time.
Outside of her clinical work, she loves getting lost in a good book, travelling, and spending time with friends and family. Ridhi is here to walk alongside carers with the same steady, informed presence she once wished her own family had access to.
Bailey Wightman
EDFA/Fill The Gap Administrative Assistant
Bailey rejoined EDFA in December 2024 as the EDFA Administrative Assistant, providing essential support to ensure smooth operations. Previously, served as EDFA’s Marketing and Communications Team Leader on a maternity leave contract, where he led key initiatives like managing the website, email campaigns, and social media, as well as publishing the Annual Report and Impact Statement.
With a background in management, marketing, and events, Bailey has worked as a Department Manager at McDonald’s, a Social Media Manager for Couture Creations, and an Event and Logistics Intern at the Brisbane Street Art Festival. These roles have honed his skills in leadership, communication, and creative strategy.
Outside of work, Bailey enjoys spending time with friends, walking their dog Scooby, and traveling, including an 11-month adventure across Europe and the UK in 2023. His personal experiences supporting loved ones through eating disorder recovery inspire their dedication to EDFA’s mission of empowering families and carers in the eating disorder community.
Meet The Fill The Gap Team in this webinar
Get to know what brought them to their passion of working in eating disorders, their own lived experience stories of caring in eating disorders and why they feel supporting carers needs is vital.