Eating Disorders & Food — Ottawa

Your relationship with food
deserves to feel different.

Compassionate, weight-neutral therapy for those navigating the painful complexity of eating disorders and disordered eating in Ottawa.

If mealtimes feel like a battleground,
you are not broken.

The struggle with food is rarely about food. It's about what food has come to mean — safety, control, punishment, comfort, numbness. Whatever it means for you, it makes sense. And it can change.

Who This Is For

You might recognize yourself here.

What you might be experiencing

Perhaps food occupies most of your thinking. Perhaps there are rules — strict, exhausting rules — about what you can eat, when, how much, and what happens if you break them. Perhaps you swing between restriction and the relief of eating, then the shame that follows.

Perhaps you've been told your eating is a problem. Or perhaps nobody knows — because you've learned to hide it well, and the hiding has become its own weight.

I work with people navigating anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, orthorexia, and the quieter, unnamed forms of disordered eating that don't fit a clinical category but still cause significant suffering.

My approach

I work from a weight-neutral, HAES-aligned (Health at Every Size) framework. This means that weight change is never a therapeutic goal — your worth, your health, and your healing are not contingent on what your body looks like.

Therapy for eating disorders often involves exploring the function the eating disorder serves — what it protects, what it expresses, what it holds. This is done gently, collaboratively, and at a pace that feels manageable.

I draw on approaches including somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) — tailoring the work to what fits you, not a protocol.

What recovery looks like

Recovery is not a destination with a fixed finish line. It is a gradual, non-linear process of developing a different relationship — with food, with your body, with yourself.

It might look like eating without guilt. It might look like being present at a dinner table. It might look like trusting your body's signals again — slowly, tentatively, then with more ease.

I work alongside dietitians, physicians, and other healthcare providers where appropriate, to ensure you have the support your recovery requires.

"Your body is not the problem to be solved. It is the home you're learning to live in again."

Common Questions

What you might be wondering.

No. Many people I work with don't have a clinical diagnosis, and that's completely fine. If you are struggling with your relationship with food — regardless of whether it fits a diagnostic category — your experience is valid and there is support available.
No. Therapy is not a meal plan and I am not a dietitian. Our early work together will focus on building safety, trust, and understanding — not on changing behaviours before you feel ready. Change, when it comes, emerges from the inside.
I work with individuals navigating anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, ARFID, orthorexia, and disordered eating that doesn't fit a specific category. For those with high medical acuity, I may recommend a higher level of care and work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team.
Weight-neutral means that I will never weigh you, comment on your weight, or suggest weight change as a measure of progress. Our focus is entirely on your wellbeing, your relationship with food and your body, and your quality of life — independent of what the scale says.
There is no standard answer. Some people experience meaningful shifts in a few months. Others benefit from longer-term work. Recovery from eating disorders is rarely linear — there will be harder periods and periods of real ease. We'll check in regularly about how the therapy is serving you.
This thought — "I'm not sick enough" — is one of the most common reasons people wait years before reaching out. And it is almost never true. If your relationship with food or your body is causing you pain, that is enough. You don't need to be at a particular weight, to have a formal diagnosis, or to have reached a "low enough" point. Suffering at any level deserves care.
Many people I work with have been carrying this privately for a long time. You don't need to have disclosed anything to anyone before reaching out to me. Our conversations are confidential, and you set the pace of what gets shared, with me and with anyone else. Coming to therapy is your choice, on your terms.