Find An Eating Disorder Therapist in Aurora, ON.

Struggles with food, body image, and control often mask deeper emotional pain. Whether you’re navigating disordered eating patterns, chronic dieting, bingeing, or restriction, we offer a safe space where healing is possible. At Rooted in Resilience, we take a non-judgmental, body-affirming approach that focuses on understanding the emotional roots behind eating behaviours. You’ll gain tools to rebuild your relationship with food, process shame, and restore connection to your body—on your terms, in your time.

Disordered eating, body image struggles, or obsessive food patterns are often rooted in emotional distress, trauma, or issues with self-worth. Whether you face restriction, bingeing, purging, or constant body dissatisfaction, I provide a space to gently explore these challenges. Together, we can work toward building self-acceptance, emotional awareness, and a more peaceful relationship with your body.

Have you ever thought about what you were eating and why? Do you know what you were thinking and feeling at the time you were choosing which food to eat? Were you sad, anxious, or stressed about something? Or, had you just finished a stressful experience and felt the need for ‘comfort food’? Have you ever heard the term, ‘emotional eating’? Firstly, let me tell you, you are NOT alone! Many people with psychological problems turn to food for comfort and relief from stress. I can help you design an action plan to manage these challenging thoughts, feelings, and behavioural choices, towards your goals and sustainable change.

Eating is a part of our daily lives, but for many people, it is an enormous stressor. I am a Health At Every Size advocate and support clients with eating disorders in finding ways of eating that support their lifestyle, goals, and well-being. Through gentle and compassionate care, we work to re-build your lifelong relationship with food, eating, and body image, allowing you to move forward with food freedom.

While I do not offer support for eating disorders, at Psychotherapy Collective, we have other therapists who are well positioned to support you. Eating disorders are not really about food. They involve complex emotional issues that have significant impact on ones physical, emotional and social health. If you are preoccupied with your weight, focused on body image, size, or shape, compelled to perform specific rituals around food, obsessive about food, or deem foods as “safe” or “unsafe” to eat you may be engaging in disordered eating. Schedule a free 15-minute consultation with a member of our team today https://www.psychotherapycollective.ca/our-team

At Orchid Psychotherapy Clinic, we offer specialized therapy for individuals struggling with eating disorders and related issues. Some of the concerns you may seek help for include: emotional eating, anorexia and bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, compulsive eating body image difficulties, body dysmorphia, and compulsive exercising. We believe that anyone can recover from an eating disorder no matter how long they've struggled. We work alongside you at your pace to find strategies that benefit you; to normalize your eating and eliminate symptoms, and to help you identify issues that might be driving the eating disorder so that you maintain your recovery after therapy is over.

Eating disorders like anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating disorder are all very complex. I provide a compassionate, safe space for individuals to explore the thoughts and feelings they have about their eating disorder and how it affects their everyday life. Models I use in this area include: Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, and Enhanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

While counselling clients with eating disorders, it is often discovered that the cause is from childhood and relationship challenges. While I suggest you have a doctor and nutritionist on your team, sessions with me can include a safe place for you to share thoughts and feelings and explore coping strategies. Topics such as body image, self-esteem, anxiety and anger, and depression can be explored in sessions to help you understand yourself and your eating disorder in your unique circumstances.

Eating disorders are a complex mental health problem with many contributing factors. My approach focuses on understanding the context of the eating disorder development with each individual client, learning about triggers for related behaviours, and exploring and healing underlying issues. Clients will learn to cope without the eating disorder and will be able to minimize or eliminate unhealthy behaviours. In addition, clients will rediscover who they are away from the eating problem. Many clients have described feeling free or like they have "been lifted out of the fog" as they recover and are able to enjoy their life without the eating disorder thoughts and behaviours interfering.

If you are reading this profile, you are probably concerned about yourself to the point that you want to seek help. You are likely to be "an emotional eater". You may have been battling with your weight and sense of self-image for a long period of time. You are constantly looking for a sense of control over the struggles on your feeling and your weight etc... With over 12 years of clinical experiences, I humbly and wholeheartedly want to support you in this battle. There are evident-based and effective therapeutic approaches to address your struggles. I offer integrative approaches to meet your needs. Please don't hesitate to reach out and start to get the help you need at this moment.

The traumas from one's life that motivate using food or the control of food as a way to manage life, anxiety, worry and more are effectively neutralized with the holistic psychotherapy model. Traditional talk therapy: Giving space for the client to explore and express feelings, own awareness’s, transform thoughts, grieve, vent, and neutralize guilt, anger and fear. New understandings and thus new neural pathways begin to form. Also Somatic focusing: A profound process of accessing the deep subconscious through breathe work and closed eyed dialoguing with the body, the mind and spirit. Life Coaching, meditation, visualization, New Decision Therapy, Polarity Therapy, Cranosacral, Reiki, vis....

Our team's approach to working with eating disorders is to address the underlying issues that often perpetuate disordered eating: anxiety, perfectionism and a need for control. In helping clients build confidence and explore alternative ways of managing the underlying issues, clients are able to move towards a life that is no longer controlled by food and body image.

If you are struggling with an eating disorder we want to focus on what has brought you to your current eating and nutritional patterns and behaviours. I want to initially focus less about the foods you eat and the current behaviours surrounding your food intake, and more about what you are wanting to accomplish in doing so. Do you feel a need to control your environment? Do you feel anxious or out of control in other areas of your life? Are you wanting to push away or ignore some other important concerns? Let's explore. My primary focus is to help you feel good about yourself and your environment, and empower you to continue to create the changes within yourself that you want to make.