Help for Adults with Eating Disorders in Burlington & Ontario-wide
Clinicians at Shoreacres Therapy are trained in the assessment and treatment of eating disorders in adults, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. Treatment is also available for adults presenting with body image concerns and disordered eating who do not meet DSM-5 criteria for an eating disorder.
Eating Disorders are complex neurobiological disorders that require a multidisciplinary team approach to treatment. Clinical Psychologists and Registered Psychotherapists at Shoreacres Therapy work closely with family physicians and registered dieticians as part of a holistic approach to your care. While treatment occurs online and 1:1 with one of our clinicians, we may recommend medical monitoring from your family doctor if there are any concerns at all about your medical stability.
FAQ
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Our society normalizes and prizes thin bodies, and we live in a time when diet culture continues to run rampant. It can be challenging to figure out a healthy relationship with food when the people around you and messages you receive (bot consciously and subconsciously) are telling you to lose weight.
Disordered eating exists on a spectrum, ranging from a clinical eating disorder to someone who occasionally might miss a meal. Therapy can help you figure out a path forward where you are listening to and honouring your body’s hunger and fullness signals, while learning how to tune out or quiet “food noise” thoughts that do not serve you.
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I take a health at every size approach (HAES) to treatment. I support clients in forging a healthy relationship with food and with their bodies. One possible outcome of beginning to treat your body with more respect and kindness is weight loss. Another possibiliuty is that beginning to relate to yourself differently results in a reduced importance of the goal of weight loss. Meaning, you may become more accepting of the body you are in regardless of the number on the scale.