Body image, weight distress, disordered eating, eating disorders

How can you help me?

I have more than four years of experience supporting people who want to change their relationships to food, body shape, body size, weight, body image, and exercise. Many of the people I’ve worked with have struggled with food fear and rigid food rules, semaglutide/GLP-1 use, a difficult relationship with exercise, and orthorexia. I have helped people address all eating disorders through my time working in an Intensive Outpatient Program. These include Anorexia, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, Binge Eating Disorder, Bulimia, and Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorders. An eating disorder diagnosis is not required to work with me.

What makes you different?

Before moving to BC, I spent four years working in an Intensive Outpatient Program in Colorado to help people suffering from eating disorders. I strive to practice cultural humility and cultural respect when working with clients. To follow through on this intention, I routinely take trainings that help me understand different points of view when approaching eating disorder treatment.

Here are some trainings I’ve completed to help meet you where you’re at with your relationship to food, body image, weight, GLP-1 use, etc:

  • Eating Disorders & Postpartum Mental Health: Staying Connected to Self and Recovery

  • Bringing Men to the Table: Effective Interventions for Eating Disorders and Body Image Concerns in Males

  • Every Body Counts: Culturally-Attuned Care for Marginalized Individuals Struggling with Disordered Eating and Body Image

  • Ask the Experts: The Intersection of GLP-1s, Body Size, and Eating Disorders

  • Gender Dysphoria and Disordered Eating: Talking with Gender Expansive Clients about Body Image

  • Treating Anxiety in Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) Clients Utilizing a Somatic Approach

What does recovery even mean? Do I have to want recovery to work with you?

The definition of recovery varies from person to person. For some, recovery means a complete absence of behaviours. For others, it means engaging in behaviours less often. Harm reduction can be a part of our therapeutic goals if that is preferable for you. Throughout the process of working together, I will be honest with you about whether I believe you need more support for your behaviours.

Regardless of what recovery means to you, we will work on what needs to change in order for you to live the life you want. So the short answer is no, you don’t have to want recovery in order to work with me.