Disordered Eating

The relationship we have with food and our body can impact all aspects of our mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. Eating disorders are also among the most life-threatening mental health disorders due to the physical health complications that arise from prolonged periods of malnutrition, purging, or laxative use. 

Mainstream media often oversimplifies and, in many ways, exacerbates struggles with disordered eating due to the complexities that come with treating these mental health struggles. Treating disordered eating involves tackling the concern from multiple angles including psycho-education, emotion regulation, addressing trauma, socio-cultural contexts, our self-perception, beliefs about food, and the systems in which we live. Our therapists are trained in evidence-based approaches that draw largely from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy as well as emotion focused techniques aimed to support clients in shifting their beliefs about themselves, improve their relationship with food, and reengage with valued aspects of their lives that their eating disorder held them back from. Katelynn Couling, Brandi Gruninger, Ashley Hardy, Jennifer Medieros, Kerri Severin, Susan Eapen, Cecilia Kasten, Makayla Caputo, Nicole Wheaton, Cassandra Elliott and Stacey Jethon are all experienced helping clients struggling with disordered eating.