Binge & Emotional Eating Dietitian · Vancouver
Stop feeling out of control around food.
Emotional eating, binge eating and disordered eating are complex. You need both a clinical counsellor and a dietitian to support you. We are both.
20 years in eating-disorder care
Weight-neutral and non-diet
Registered Dietitian + Clinical Counsellor
It's exhausting to feel trapped by food.
It shows up differently for everyone. Maybe you:
• restrict all day, then swear tomorrow will be different
• brace for the nights, when the eating feels like it's happening to you
• eat when you're stressed, or when you're not even hungry, and feel the shame right after
• Google "why can't I stop eating", and have tried every plan, app, and fresh-start Monday
Whatever your eating challenges look like, they aren't a flaw in you.
At Shift Nutrition & Counselling, we've supported many women whose relationship with food got worn down over the years. Diet culture profits from it, and tells us our bodies are things to fix.
But we believe there's a better way to be healthy and quiet the food noise. With a weight-neutral, whole-person approach, you can get healthier AND feel at home in your body.
You don't need to punish or control your body to feel better. You deserve support that honours your humanity.
Feel healthier, and more free around food.
Because we have team members with dietitian and clinical counselling credentials, we can work on the food and the emotions underneath it at once. We'll help you:
Unpack what's driving your eating, including physical and emotional reasons
Steady your eating, so the restrict-then-binge cycle doesn't happen as often
Get back in touch with your body's cues for hunger, fullness, and satisfaction
Build other ways to deal with hard feelings, so food isn't the only tool you've got
Make small, doable changes that support your health and energy, without rigid or unsustainable diets
Work toward a kinder, more respectful relationship with your body, at any size
What our clients experience
The people we work with for binge and emotional eating often describe the same handful of changes. Over time, they:
Eat the foods they love (without the guilt that used to follow)
Experience more energy, calmer digestion, and better sleep
Stop bracing for the next Monday, and the next fresh start
See the health markers improve
Go a whole afternoon without food crossing their mind
Get their headspace back, and their life with it
Where nutrition and mental health meet
Shift Nutrition & Counselling is a small, weight-neutral nutrition and counselling practice in Vancouver. We're registered dietitians and a clinical counsellor with 20 years in eating disorder care. We help you get healthier while also working on your relationship with food, so the changes you make are sustainable.
FAQs
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We talk, and we ask a lot of questions, because we need to get to know you and let you orient us to who you are. From there, we can share what we're seeing, and figure out how to meet your goals together. Our job is to help you understand yourself better, not hand you another set of rules. Some common goals we work toward with you:
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 that kind of rigid control isn't supportive of their healing. That said, some clients have ADHD, or feel overwhelmed by conflicting nutritional guidance, and in those cases we're happy to help with meal planning. Generally, though, we aim to move clients away from rigid control of their diet.
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Binge and emotional eating are often a reaction to periods of restricting food. Later on, just the thought of dieting, or "starting fresh on Monday," can trigger bingeing or feeling out of control with food. The best way to heal your relationship with food is to build consistency with eating, without restriction. From there, the next step is 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, so none of this is your fault. Even if your eating patterns don't qualify for a diagnosis, we can still help. It doesn't matter whether your eating is "bad enough"; if you're unhappy or stressed about it, we can help.
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We work with the health measures that actually matter, helping you manage things like cholesterol, blood sugar, or fatty liver. Focusing on weight loss in isolation leads to weight cycling, which is far harder on your body than a higher but steady weight over time. For us, losing weight isn't the goal, and we don't let a push for weight loss distract from your actual health.
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We work with the health measures that actually matter, helping you manage things like cholesterol, blood sugar, or fatty liver. Focusing on weight loss in isolation leads to weight cycling, which is far harder on your body than a higher but steady weight over time. For us, losing weight isn't the goal, and we don't let a push for weight loss distract from your actual health.
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Everybody is a little different. For most people this is long-standing, and it deserves the care it takes to heal. We're mindful that this can be costly too, so if your benefits are limited, we can supplement sessions with outside readings or podcasts to keep our work as efficient as possible. Once we meet the first time, we can give you a more informed estimate of how much time we'll likely need together.
Find Peace With Food Again.
You can heal your relationship with food. Imagine eating without guilt, obsession, or feeling out of control. We help you get there with compassionate counselling and nutrition support, without diets or food rules.