VIRTUAL THERAPY ACROSS ONTARIO
EATING DISORDER THERAPY
When food, eating, or your body becomes a source of constant stress, it can feel impossible to escape the guilt and self-criticism. Therapy offers a compassionate space to understand what you're going through and begin building a different relationship with food and your body.
Disordered Eating Therapy in Ontario
Many people wonder whether what they're experiencing is "serious enough" for therapy. You don't need a diagnosis to benefit from support. Whether you're struggling with an eating disorder, emotional eating, or a difficult relationship with food and your body, therapy can help you understand what's driving these patterns and develop healthier ways of coping.
Emotional Eating
Using food to cope with stress, anxiety, loneliness, boredom, or overwhelm rather than physical hunger, often feeling like eating is your only way to manage difficult emotions.
Feeling Addicted to Food
Feeling out of control around certain foods, struggling with intense cravings, or feeling trapped in a cycle of overeating, guilt, and promising yourself you'll "do better tomorrow."
Binge Eating
Eating large amounts of food in a short period of time, feeling unable to stop once you start, and experiencing shame, guilt, or regret afterwards.
Constant Thoughts About Food
Feeling consumed by thoughts about food, calories, weight, or your next meal, making it difficult to focus on work, relationships, or enjoying everyday life.
Poor Body Image & Constant Self-Criticism
Frequently criticizing your appearance, avoiding mirrors or photos, comparing yourself to others, or feeling like your self-worth depends on your body.
Restrictive Eating & Food Rules
Skipping meals, avoiding certain foods, or following rigid food rules out of fear, guilt, or anxiety, leaving you feeling exhausted and disconnected from your body's natural hunger cues.
Healing Your Relationship With Food Starts Here
Struggling with eating patterns isn’t about willpower — it’s about pain, fear, and coping in the best ways you know how. Whether you're dealing with binge eating, emotional eating, chronic restriction, or intense body shame, everyday life can feel like a cycle of anxiety, guilt, and self-criticism.
Despite how heavy this feels, healing is absolutely possible, and you do not have to do this alone.
Therapy offers a safe, compassionate space to explore what’s driving your eating patterns — without shame or pressure. With evidence-based support, you’ll learn to understand your triggers, soothe your emotions, reconnect with your body, and build a healthier, more trusting relationship with food. Over time, you’ll begin to feel calmer, more grounded, and more in charge of your life again.
How Eating Disorder Therapy Can Help
Therapy helps you understand the patterns keeping you stuck — not by focusing on food itself, but by exploring the emotions, beliefs, and experiences underneath. Over time, you'll build the skills to respond to difficult moments differently, so that food feels less like something to fear or fight, and more like something you can approach with calm and steadiness.
Food is just the surface. We go deeper.
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Understanding Food Patterns
We’ll explore the emotional, psychological, and environmental factors influencing your eating habits. You’ll gain insight into the patterns that keep you stuck and develop tools to interrupt them with greater compassion and clarity.
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Managing Intense Emotions
We’ll help you regulate overwhelming emotions — whether they show up as urges to binge, restrict, or avoid food entirely. Together, we’ll build a personalised set of strategies to help you stay steady and grounded when emotions feel intense.
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Improving Your Body Image
You’ll learn how to soften negative body thoughts, challenge perfectionism, and develop a more flexible, respectful relationship with your body. We take a gentle, non-judgmental approach that meets you wherever you are.
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Rebuilding Trust With Yourself
Disordered eating often erodes the sense that you can trust yourself — your hunger, your fullness, your instincts, your worth. Therapy helps you rebuild that trust slowly and carefully, in a way that feels sustainable. You'll learn to listen to yourself again, without the noise of rules, fear, or self-criticism drowning everything out.
WHAT SESSIONS ACTUALLY FEEL LIKE
Eating disorder therapy sessions are compassionate, collaborative, and free of judgment. You won't be criticised for your eating habits or pressured to change before you're ready. Sessions are practical enough to help you make progress while giving you space to explore the thoughts and emotions behind your relationship with food.
HEALING YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND YOUR BODY
Healing your relationship with food starts by understanding what's underneath.
For many people, struggles with food are about much more than willpower. You may feel addicted to food, feel out of control around certain foods, or find yourself eating when you're stressed, anxious, or overwhelmed. Whether you describe your experience as food addiction, emotional eating, binge eating, or simply feeling trapped in unhealthy eating patterns, these struggles are often closely connected to body image, self-esteem, and difficult emotions.
Therapy isn't about following another diet or relying on more self-control. Together, we'll explore the emotional, psychological, and behavioural patterns that keep these cycles going while helping you build a healthier, more balanced relationship with food and your body.
You may be struggling if...
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You feel addicted to food or out of control around certain foods.
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You eat in response to stress, anxiety, loneliness, or other difficult emotions.
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You frequently feel guilty or ashamed after eating.
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Your self-worth is strongly tied to your weight or appearance.
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You avoid social situations because of food or body image concerns.
Whether you're seeking therapy for food addiction, emotional eating, binge eating, or body image concerns, our therapists provide a compassionate, non-judgmental space to understand what's driving these patterns and support lasting, meaningful change.
Meet Our Eating Disorder Therapists
Our eating disorder therapists work with teens and adults who feel caught in difficult patterns with food and their bodies. They provide compassionate, non-judgmental support — helping you understand what’s behind these patterns, develop healthier coping strategies, and build a more peaceful relationship with food and your body.
Charlotte MacLean
Accepting New Clients
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Weekdays, weekday evenings and Saturdays
Jenna Gagliardi
Accepting New Clients
Availability:
Weekdays, weekday evenings, and Saturdays
It's Okay to Be Unsure If You're Ready
Part of you might want things to be different — and another part might feel scared to let go of these patterns.
Eating patterns often develop for a reason. They can help you cope, feel in control, or manage overwhelming emotions. So even if they’re painful, it can feel risky to change them.
You don’t have to be fully ready. You don’t have to “want recovery enough.”
Therapy isn’t about forcing change or taking anything away from you.
It’s about understanding what these patterns are doing for you — and helping you build safer, more supportive ways to cope, at a pace that feels manageable.
We move slowly, with care and respect for where you’re at. You stay in control of the process the entire time.
We're ready when you are.
You don't have to have everything figured out before reaching out. Whether you know exactly what you need or you're still finding the words, this is a good place to start.
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Explore the Team
Browse therapist profiles to find someone whose focus and approach feel like a good fit.
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Book a Free 15-Minute Consultation
A no-pressure conversation to get to know your therapist before committing to anything.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Do I need an official diagnosis to start therapy for eating disorders?
No. Many people seek support long before they meet the criteria for a diagnosis. Whether you're dealing with emotional eating, restriction, bingeing, or body image distress, therapy can help at any stage.
Q: How do I know if I could benefit from therapy for an eating disorder?
If food, weight, or body image are taking up too much mental space, causing distress, or affecting your daily life, therapy can offer relief, clarity, and healthier coping tools.
Q: Do you work with teens experiencing body image or eating struggles?
Yes. We offer support for both adults and teens struggling with eating issues, emotional regulation, self-esteem, and body image.
Q: Do you offer online therapy for eating disorders?
Yes. Although our practice is based in Toronto, we offer online therapy across Ontario to make care accessible and convenient.
Q: What will my first session look like?
Your first session is all about getting to know you. We'll explore what has been happening, discuss your goals for therapy, review confidentiality, and answer any questions you have. There is no pressure to share everything right away—we'll move at a pace that feels safe and comfortable for you. To learn more, visit our blog entitled "What to Expect in Your First Eating Disorder Therapy Session".
Q: What is the session fee for an eating disorder therapy session?
A 50-minute session is $155.
Related Articles
Recovery from disordered eating is rarely linear, and it rarely happens in isolation. These articles offer thoughtful, evidence-informed perspectives on the relationship between food, body image, emotions, and identity. They are written with the complexity of this experience in mind and without the diet culture language that makes so much writing about eating feel unhelpful or harmful.