Struggling with Emotional Eating, Binge Eating or Feeling Addicted to Food?
Do you feel like you’re always thinking about food? Do you find yourself eating even when you’re not hungry — or feeling out of control once you start eating? Do you restrict food during the day because you fear being out of control later? Do you feel “addicted” to food? Do you think about food constantly? Do you feel guilt or shame after eating? Do you feel compelled to eat whenever you feel stressed, sad, bored or even happy?
Maybe you worry about your weight and health, yet no matter how hard you try to follow diets or meal plans, nothing seems to work long-term. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone — and it’s not a matter of willpower.
Our Approach
We believe in a non-diet, weight-inclusive approach that supports your whole health: physical, mental, and emotional. You don’t need to punish or control your body to feel better. You deserve support that honours your humanity.
We clear the confusion. We can help you implement easy, accessible steps to improve your nutrition. We will help you diversify your emotional toolbox so you don’t have to rely on food alone.
Treatment
We have a different approach from other professionals you might have seen. Dieting and weight-focused approaches often make disordered eating patterns worse, increasing feelings of deprivation and obsession with food.
Using evidence-based, gentle nutrition and intuitive eating strategies, we will:
Unpack the emotional and physical reasons behind your eating patterns
Build skills to listen to your body’s cues for hunger, fullness, and satisfaction
Develop tools to manage emotions without turning to food in ways that don’t serve you
Focus on behaviors that support your health, without rigid or unsustainable diets
Work toward a respectful, compassionate relationship with your body — at any size
FAQs
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We are going to talk. We will be asking you lots of questions. We need to get to know you so that you can orient us to who you are. We can then give you information on what we understand about your problem. Together, we will figure out how to meet your goals. Our job is to help you understand yourself better. Generally speaking, some common goals we have for you is to:
Understand the emotional and physical reasons behind your eating patterns
Build skills to recognize hunger, fullness, and satisfaction
Develop tools to manage emotions without turning to food in ways that don’t serve you
Break out of the restrict–binge cycle
Reduce guilt and shame around food
Strengthen body trust and self-compassion
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No! (not really). A lot of our clients have been harmed by structured meal plans. So this is not supportive of their healing. However, some clients might have ADHD or they are overwhelmed by conflicting nutritional guidance. In cases like these, we are happy to provide support for meal planning. Generally speaking, we aim to move clients away from rigid control of their diet.
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Binge eating or emotional eating is often largely in reaction to periods of time of restricting food. Later on, just thinking about having to diet, or “starting fresh on Monday”, triggers binge eating or feeling out of control with food. The best way to support healing your relationship with food is creating consistency with eating without restriction. The next step would then be supporting your emotional health.
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It’s okay. You don’t need a diagnosis. The truth is, we live in a culture that heavily promotes disordered eating. It’s not your fault. Even if your eating patterns don’t qualify for a diagnosis, I can still help you. It doesn’t matter if your eating is “bad enough”, if you’re unhappy or stressed about it, I can help.
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We work with the actual health measures that support your health. We will help you manage your cholesterol, blood sugar, or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, for example. The problem is, focusing on weight loss in isolation leads to weight cycling. Weight cycling is far more unhealthy than maintaining a higher, but steady, body weight over time. For us, losing weight is not the goal. We do not disrupt the focus on health by getting distracted by forcing weight loss.
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Everybody is a little different, of course. For most, this is a long-standing problem and it deserves the care it needs to treat it. We are mindful that this process can be costly. If you have limited or no benefits, we can supplement our sessions with outside readings or podcasts, etc. to support our work together and make it as efficient as possible. Once we meet the first time, we can give you a more informed estimate of how much time we will likely need to work together.
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