Adult Eating Disorder Therapy in Ontario & New Brunswick

Understanding Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating

Common Signs and Behaviors in Eating Disorders

  • Restricting or refusing foods previously liked

  • Vomiting food after meals or purging

  • Excessive exercise despite being tired or injured

  • Heightened anxiety, obsessive food rules

  • Hiding foods

  • Using laxatives

  • “Fat talk,” or negative body image

  • Fear of weight gain

  • Chronic Dieting

  • Perfectionist tendencies

  • Binging

  • Disordered Eating - skipping meals or restricting to compensate

  • Orthorexia or “Clean Eating”

  • Eating Disorders Make you Give up Foods You Enjoy....

    You previously ate a variety of foods, and loved foods. You never remember being a picky eater. Too scared that you will indulge, and that will cause dreaded weight gain.

    Fear of your body changing is always on your mind.

  • EATING DISORDERS create CONSTANT Obessessive thoughts about FOOD.

    Your body says it's hungry, yet you struggle to take just one bite. You feel shaky, tired, and maybe have digestive changes. You can't possibly believe that you would be hungry.

    You NO LONGER TRUST your body’s cues.

  • Eating Disorders Have Many Rules about food, what time to eat, and when to exercise. It over rules your daily routines.

    Obsessing, looping thoughts never turn off in your brain. They wake you up in the middle of the night, and constantly tell you what to do next. Reminding you that you can't eat after a certain time at night, or not until a certain time in the late afternoon of the day, when you deserve it.

Eating Disorder Counselling For Adults

Help for your eating disorder is here. Eating Disorders are notorious for saying “Not READY yet, you’ve got to reach that goal first, PERFECT IT.”

The voice inside your head, constantly criticizes you, telling you it's not enough weight lost. You can lose more weight. You can do better. Try harder. The voice dictates what you deserve to eat, and tells you how you will be punished when you eat more then planned. Exercising beyond exhaustion, and never is enough. Thinking you don't deserve eating disorder treatment just yet.

Understanding How Eating Disorder Treatment Works

Gaining Understanding & Developing Goals

- Working together to understand your concerns. 

- Building awareness into what other factors in your life contributed to this situation presenting. 

- Outline goals that you want to achieve as part of our work together. 

Interrupting Patterns & Building Skills

- When you are aware of what's going on, you can interrupt the cycle of challenges. 

- By gaining new practical skills to helps you cope more effectively. Focusing on learning how you can 

Improving Body Image & Ongoing Recovery

Body image is how you view your body, who you are, how it functions. Helping you to improve your body image, and interrupt negative thoughts about your body.

- Focusing on developing a plan for long term ongoing recovery is essential in our work together. 

Eating Disorder Treatment, Body Image Counselling across New Brunswick & Ontario.

Common Questions about EATING DISORDER TREATMENT.

  • The first therapy session includes an assessment, a treatment plan outline and take away next steps to try until we meet again. My intentions is to be clear and concise about what this includes and what you can do to feel relief right away whenever possible. This also provides a sense of hope and direction to inform your choices for next steps of treatment. Often times eating disorder treatment does require a longer track of therapy typically between 9-18 months- remeeach case is unique.

  • Great Question! Despite this not having a simple answer, therapy services and progress in counselling are unique to each persons situation, and the efforts put into practicing the skills learned in sessions, while away from therapy. Eating Disorders treatment, model of Family Based Treatment or FBT, it is a 20 week model for supporting youth and teens, or adults who are agreeable to this. That requires parents to be involved in every step.

    DBT & CBT are other treatment options with still an individualized approach, each person will require different number of sessions.

  • Anxiety is part of our survival systems, and helps to protect us when our body is out of balance. When individuals restrict their nutrition intake, by eating reduced calories, experience weight loss, and overall have an eating disorder it will lead to increased anxiety, ruminations in thoughts, OCD symptoms, and sleep difficulty. Focusing on increasing nutrition first; helps the brain become nourished, and then we can determine what is still remaining as anxiety or body image concerns.

  • Fees can be reviewed on this fee page specifically or on the online booking site, see link below to check current availability as well as rates.

    I do not provide direct billing to insurance companies. I do provide a receipt that you may use to submit to your benefits provider for reimbursement. I do recommend you confirm that my credentials are accepted and covered by your insurance benefits coverage. I am Registered Social Worker, and my credentials are MSW, RSW.

  • Yes, it is necessary for both parents to be "on the same page even if they don't agree with treatment." That means that some sessions of treatment will be on parents only to work through concerns. Eating Disorders live in secrecy, and discord. Focusing together as a couple how to support your child's eating disorder treatment can be the most important aspect of working together during this challenging time.

Support with eating disorder therapy across New Brunswick and Ontario

Nutrition Therapy as part of eating disorder treatment.

Nutrition is a foundation for recovery.

Nutrition support is vital to helping you heal your body through food as medicine. Nourishing your brain is part of nourishing your body.

Supporting you with healing your relationship with food.

Registered Dietitian's support you to learn how to enjoy foods you once feared or gave up on eating ever again. 

Ready to take the steps towards rebuilding trust with your body? Recovery from an eating disorder starts with that first step forward.

Services rooted in a foundation of Health At Every Size

This space is inclusive for all body types, sizes, and shapes. Health goes beyond your weight,  body type, and is inclusive of many aspects. Health at every size focuses on holistic care, eating for well-being, weight inclusivity, respectful care, and life enhancing movement. The goal is to be balanced and intuitive.