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New Realities Eating Disorders Recovery Centre

  

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New Realities Eating Disorders Recovery Centre

  
  62 Charles Street East, Suite 103
  Toronto, Ontario, M4Y 1T1

  Phone: 416 921-9670
  Email: Contact New Realities Eating Disorders Recovery Centre

  Website: www.newrealitiescan.com


"New Realities offers a unique approach to the treatment of eating disorders utilizing experiential methods including guided imagery, art, psychodrama and movement to assist you in reaching deeper levels of awareness."

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If you have had enough of vicious inner voices that tell you that you won't be happy until you lose weight, that your worth is measured by how you look, that you are not allowed to eat certain foods, that second guess almost everything you do, New Realities can help you remove the blocks to the truth that you are already worthy, that happiness comes from loving and accepting yourself. New Realities offers you a safe, comfortable, non-judgmental and confidential haven as we guide you along the path to recovery and to a life of confidence and free existence in your body.

New Realities offers a unique approach to those suffering from eating disorders including binge eating disorder, compulsive overeating, bulimia and anorexia. With 2 locations in the Greater Toronto area (Thornhill and Toronto), the centre offers nonresidential intensive individual counselling, psychotherapy, marital and family counselling and psychotherapy groups as well as Clinical Experiential Training in the Treatment of Eating Disorders for healthcare professionals.

At the centre we recognize that there are real and often unconscious reasons that people use food and body size to deal with emotions and difficult situations.

Recovery from eating disorders requires developing new living strategies. The use of experiential methods including guided imagery, art, psychodrama and body-oriented therapies will assist you in reaching deeper levels of awareness to help you understand how the eating disorder has been functioning in your life and what you need to develop healthier strategies.

Why Experiential Therapies and Eating Disorders

Experiential therapies include psychodrama, art therapy, dance and movement therapy, and guided imagery. These therapies access right brain function and then the left brain makes conscious sense out of the material that emerges. They allow you to express your emotions through a nonverbal medium.

Why Adlerian Psychology and Eating Disorders

Adlerian psychology looks at the person as a whole and the whole person including social functioning, work/school, familial functioning, self esteem and spirituality. Adlerian treatment focuses on healing the underlying issues behind the eating disorder and the purpose it seems to serve. The theory is teleological or goal-directed because Adler believed that people are constantly striving to meet some real or fictional goal in life. With an eating disorder, some of your perceptions can be mistaken and therefore, lead to self-destructive behaviours. Adlerian treatment techniques can redirect you to a realization and reframing of these mistaken goals.

Our Services

Individual Counselling and Psychotherapy

If you live in the Greater Toronto area, you may wish to have individual sessions. Sessions are 1 to 2 hours and are scheduled on an individual basis.

Individual Intensive Program

If you live outside the Toronto area, an individualized program can be designed for you. The program would consist of 2 to 4 hours of therapy daily for 1 to 3 weeks.
Intensive programs are also available to Toronto area residents.
You would need to arrange accommodation. (We can provide names of local bed & breakfast and hotels.)

Psychotherapy Groups

Ongoing, open-ended groups are available. The groups are open to interested people who have been in other programs or therapy. An assessment interview is required.

Marital and Family Counselling

Counselling for families of those with eating disorders is available whether or not the eating disordered individual is a client of New Realities.

Assessment

An assessment interview is required to help determine psychological and physiological readiness as well as which program will best suit your needs. Assessment for Individual Intensive Programs can be done by mail and telephone.

Support for People Who Have Attended Treatment Centres Outside The Toronto Area

Follow-up support is a crucial component of treatment. No matter how good the treatment program, long-term personal support is important. New Realities provides follow-up services to individuals returning to the Toronto area from U.S., Canadian and international programs.
If you have been in treatment outside Toronto and want ongoing local support or if you are a treatment team member and want more information, contact us.

Clinical and Experiential Training in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are very complex disorders. Over the years, we have often heard from our colleagues that they feel ill-prepared for dealing with this client group and/or their families. At New Realities, we have successfully treated individuals with eating and their families. We are now offering the opportunity to other healthcare professionals to become prepared to work with this client group.

The training is open to anyone who is interested in learning the theory and skills for working with eating disordered clients and their families. The Basic Clinical Training is offered to those not seeking certification. The Advanced Clinical Training is a certification program that is suitable for Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Physicians, Counsellors, Social Workers, Addiction Counsellors, Nurses, Dieticians, Occupational Therapists and other Healthcare Professionals.
( http://newrealitiescan.com/experiential-clinical-training)

Our Cofounders and Psychotherapists

Orit Morse, MA, (C)OACCPP

Orit is co-founder of New Realities and a psychotherapist with 22 years of counselling experience currently focusing on recovery from eating disorders. Orit has facilitated groups at Sheena’s Place as well as the Trauma Resolution Centre. She provides individual and family counselling in both these areas. She is also a parent educator, guest lecturer and facilitates workshops on topics such as marriage and family issues, addiction recovery and many other areas of personal growth.

Orit is certified in psychological testing and has experience in psychological assessments and counselling with special-needs client groups. She has had extensive counsellor and organizational development training and completed an M.A. degree in Counselling Psychology at the Adler School of Professional Psychology.
Orit is a member in good standing with the North American Society for Adlerian Psychology (NASAP) as well as a Certified Clinical Member of the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP). She was a student of psychodrama as well as other body-oriented therapies.

Through the use of traditional talk therapy as well as guided imagery, psychodrama, art, movement and other body oriented therapies Orit helps individuals find their heart’s way.

Orit believes that by clearing and healing the blocks that may have accumulated due to pain, struggle, fears, negative thoughts, anxieties or unrealistic expectations, people are able to rediscover their authentic selves, have self love, fully express themselves, manifest their dreams – and find their heart’s path.

Patricia Kelly, MA, (C)OACCPP

Patricia is cofounder of New Realities and a psychotherapist who holds a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology from the Adler School of Professional Psychology, an undergraduate degree in nutrition (University of Guelph) and a post graduate diploma in community in nutrition (University of Toronto). She is a Certified Clinical Member of the Ontario Association of Counsellors, Consultants, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (0ACCPP). She has been in private practice for 20 years and has facilitated groups at Sheena’s Place for the past 9 years.

Her primary focus is eating disorders, body image concerns and other related concerns. Patricia brings to the therapeutic relationship over 30 years of experience and an extensive understanding of eating disorders and what it takes to recover from one. She also helps people with anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues and stress.

Patricia offers a gentle, empathic approach that allows you to make the choices you need to make to find the right answers for you. She believes that it is possible to develop a trusting, peaceful relationship with ourselves, our bodies and our food. With the use of guided imagery and meditations, role play, art and body awareness techniques along with talking, she will guide you to meeting yourself at a deeper level, accepting the parts of yourself you might not want to acknowledge and recognizing your own amazing uniqueness.


 

 

 

 

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