Find An Eating Disorder Therapist in Stittsville, ON.

Eating disorders are often symptoms of a bigger issue and the by helping you find the cause of your struggles, I can help you cope with those issues, learn healthy coping skills and provide you with effective, sustainable solution-focused strategies that provide you with tools that tackle issues that caused these issues in the first place. Your eating disorders do not have to be you, we can work together to overcome them.

My approach to eating disorders is grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. I believe that in order to change attitudes about food and health that it starts with awareness and developing mindfulness skills. I will work with individuals to accept their thoughts as just thoughts and not who they are as a person. This will allow us to be able to develop a more healthy perspective that will allow you to be less impacted your eating disorder and to focus on what really matters to you in life.

I will provide a safe space for personal expression and growth and building a therapeutic relationship with you based on trust. We will explore your most distressing thoughts, emotional reactions, behaviours, and relationship patterns associated with your eating, weight concerns, or body image. After we collaboratively set your treatment goals, we will work to understand and manage unhealthy eating habits. We will work on developing healthy coping strategies to deal with strong emotions and stress. I will help you access and express emotions and needs at the root of your concerns. We will also work to broaden your sense of yourself beyond physical appearance and weight, and build vitality

Eating disorders can disrupt and limit one's ability to cope with the stresses of everyday life. Often eating difficulties begin with the onset of adolescence or even before. Anne has helped many children, teens and young adults learn to reduce anxiety and stress allowing a new outlook to their health and well being. If you are a parent, worried about your child, or if you are a young person concerned about your self esteem and your health, please call to talk about how you can make changes to your life.

Having an eating disorder can rob you of so many joys in life. The disorder takes over and it becomes very difficult to focus on anything else. I can help you to discover what lies beneath the compulsion to restrict or to binge, and to regulate your food intake. I will refer you to more appropriate services if I feel that you need more of a multi-disciplinary approach, for instance if I feel that your disorder has affected your physical health in ways that I can not help you with.

In a supportive and empathic environment I help people who are suffering from an eating disorder to develop trust, build motivation for change, implement and maintain strategies to change as well as monitor their recovery process and journey of self-discovery. I work with both cognitive and behavioral strategies as well as an insight-oriented focus on the client's awareness of self and body. My work with an eating disorder often includes family of origin issues.

When I see a client with an eating disorder, I do not focus on the disordered behaviour as such. Rather, together we explore the client's family or origin and attachment history--from which our belief system about ourselves and the world are derived. I see this disordered behaviour as most often the result of the debilitating effect of an attachment wound.

When we talk about Eating Disorders people think of Anorexia and Bulimia, but there are other pattern of eating and dieting and body image disturbances that are equally concerning. In therapy I address the uniqueness of my client. There is no one right way to eat, no one right way to exercise, no one right weight. Each and every body is unique in how it looks and in what it needs. A goal of therapy is a body that is accepted and loved.

I work with your negative body image, from the inside out. "The negative image is understood as a dissociated and shame-based “part” of the personality in need of understanding and compassion, achieved via mindful awareness, “parts” dialogue and trauma processing. Our first step will be to create a healthy separation between the "observing" or aware Self and the part(s) absorbed in the eating disorder via mindful awareness. Once this separation between the "whole" self and part of self is established, the Gestalt polarity tradition (empty chairs) is utilized to develop understanding of the shame-based part. This leads to developing more love and compassion for yourself. You are enough!

I help clients overcome addictive relationships with food. Like all addictions, the behavior is the tip of the iceberg, used to cope with underlying thoughts and emotions. Through collaborative conversations, clients gain insight into underlying concerns, gaining coping skills to more effectively navigate these issues. I draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI), helping clients achieve a sense of freedom and control over their lives, leading to long-term change.

While most eating disorder issues are treated by cognitive behavioral methodologies or specialized outpatient/inpatient programs, Grey Matters International and the work of Kevin J. Fleming, PhD provide relief first and foremost for the brain of one suffering from an eating disorder----without giving them medication. We believe that the neural circuitries responsible for the compulsive behaviors with eating are not necessarily only a neurotransmitter issue but of overused neural networks that affect the harmonization, balance, and decisions of the whole brain. Contact kevin@kevinfleminphd.com or 877-606-6161 to learn more about this safe and effective alternative.

The drive for thinness is real. It is important socially and often for careers. But eating disorders be it anorexia or bulimia come at a cost thato is too high and to some leads to paying the ultimate price. It is not just physical health that deteriorates but psychological and relational health too. Let's use evidence-based techniques to help steer you towards a balanced life that is in line with your values, passion, and purpose.