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Canada: (click on the highlighted links below)

Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Courtenay, B.C. Canada

Vancouver, B.C., Canada 

Brandon, Manitoba, Canada (scan down)

Westwind Eating Disorder Recovery Centre

Inpatient, Outpatient, Day Treatment, Residential Treatment, Nutritional Counseling, Individual Therapy, Group Therapy, Outpatient, Support Groups

458 14th St., Brandon, Manitoba, R7A 4T3, Canada

Additional Communities Served: Residential Program – International, Outpatient – Manitoba, Support Groups - Western Manitoba

Office: 204-728-2499

Website: www.westwind.mb.ca

Email: westwindedrc@mts.net

Treatment Model: Small private residential treatment centre providing daily individual counselling and group therapy using the proven techniques of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Interpersonal Therapy, as well as Nutrition Counselling, complimented by a skill building and problem solving approach. 

Treats Anorexia and Bulimia; working primarily with adult women. They also work with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Binge Eating Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) .

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1998

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Credit Cards

Offering North America's most affordable and effective residential treatment centre specializing in the treatment of eating disorders.  Our small, home-like setting has all the elements necessary for a successful recovery, and allows our highly qualified staff to be 100% committed to the needs of each and every individual.  Nestled beautifully in a tree lined neighbourhhood of the the Wheat City, we welcome women from all over the world with open arms and visions of hope.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada (scan down)

Beth Murray Registered Psychologist

Fresh Hope Counselling

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Outpatient, Coaching, Phone Counseling

8944- 182 Street, Suite 210, Edmonton, Alberta T5T 2E3

Additional Communities Served: Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Sherwood Park, Fort Saskatchewan, St. Albert

Office: 780-264-3456

Website: www.bethmurray.com 

Email: bethmurray@bethmurray.com

Treatment Model: Cognitive Behavioral, Eclectic

Beth Murray treats Anorexia and Bulimia in adolescent and adult women. Beth Murray also works with Compulsive Exercisers, Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, Compulsive Overeating and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1999

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Credit Cards, Insurance

Beth Murray is a Registered Psychologist and eating disorders specialist. She has effectively worked with eating disorders since 1999 and has seen numerous clients move into a place of freedom and healing from their eating disorders. She believes that recovery from an eating disorder is possible and incorporates spiritual, mental, emotional and physical components into the healing process. Don't just learn how to "manage" your eating disorder, learn to live without it.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (scan down)

Bellwood Health Services

Bellwood Health Services treats individuals struggling with an eating disorder or related issue who may or may not have a concurrent addiction. Housed within our addiction facility and sharing some common treatment components with those used successfully for substance and process addictions, Bellwood addresses the unique needs of individuals with eating disorders. Our holistic-based program aims to help clients "normalize" eating, relax self-defeating attitudes about weight and shape, improve self-esteem and address underlying and interpersonal issues. The eating disorder program offers groups on body image, self-esteem, relapse prevention, art therapy, nutritional counselling, and meal support. Programming that is shared with our addiction treatment program and of mutual benefit includes intensive group therapy, psychodrama, massage and recreation therapy, life skills education, meditation, spiritual counselling and medical management.

Shirley Leon, Ph.D. , R.C.C.

Creative Transitions Counselling Services

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Outpatient, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy, Group Therapy, Support Groups

Bathurst & Sheppard, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Additional Communities Served: Close to York University in North York

Office: 416-501-7977

Website: www.creativitycounselling.com

Treatment Model: Creative transitions counselling services Integrates expressive therapies into an evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral model of change towards successful outcomes.  This practice is effective because it incorporates a thorough understanding of the multiple dimensions of  eating disorders with research on effective therapies.  At times, towards clients' goals,  we will work with families, medical professionals, nutritionists and others.

Dr. Leon treats Anorexia and Bulimia in female children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Leon also works with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

Creative transitions counselling services Integrates expressive therapies into an evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral model of change towards successful outcomes.  This practice is effective because it incorporates a thorough understanding of the multiple dimensions of  eating disorders with research on effective therapies.  At times, towards clients' goals,  we will work with families, medical professionals, nutritionists and others.

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Sliding Scale  

Courtenay, B.C., Canada (scan down)

Esther Kane, MSW, BC, Assn. of Clinical Counsellors- Registered Clinical Counsellor #1905

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Holistic Healing, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Support Groups, Phone Counselling

145 19th Street, Suite 6, Courtenay, Z9N 9G2 Canada

Additional Communities Served: Comox Valley, Parksville, Nanaimo, Campbell River, Comox, Courtenay, Victoria

Office: 250-338-1800

Website: www.estherkane.com

Email: esther@estherkane.com

Treatment Model: I see my role as being a “guide”- gently supporting and encouraging you along the path of healing and self-discovery.  I believe: that to facilitate long-lasting change and to feel as good as you possibly can about yourself, all aspects of your being must be integrated into the healing process: mind, body, and spirit;  that you have the answers to your problems; not me. Thus, I encourage you to re-connect with your own unique internal wisdom and inner voice; in your ability to heal, grow, change, and become the person you’ve always dreamed of being and that on our journey together, this and more is possible. The approaches I use in psychotherapy are Woman-Centred and Family Systems.

Ms. Kane treats Anorexia and Bulimia in adult women. Ms. Kane also works with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, Compulsive Overeating and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1995

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Credit Cards, Insurance

While I work with a number of “presenting problems”, I primarily provide psychotherapy services to women of all ages, shapes, and sizes who have one thing in common: a relationship with food and their body that is so problematic that they need professional help to deal with it and to heal.  I know this problem all too well as I survived a deadly battle with anorexia and bulimia in my teens and early 20’s and have lived to tell the story.  My 15+ years of full recovery is a testament to the fact that disordered eating recovery is possible and that one can lead a brilliant, juicy, and fabulous life after healing.  If I could do it, you can too! Whether you struggle with anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating, or binge-eating, I can help.  I have worked with countless women over the years and assisted them in outsmarting disordered eating for life.  I have a special gift in this area having been through it myself and along with my extensive counselling training and work experience, have come to know what works and what doesn’t. With my knowledge and experience, I can give you the understanding and tools you need to get "unstuck" and free yourselves from the jaws of food/weight/body image obsession and help you leap into the fabulous life you deserve and want...

Ms. Kane is a member in good standing of the B.C. Clinical Counsellors Association and has met all of the requirements of this professional body to have been given the designation of Registered Clinical Counsellor.  

Vancouver, B.C., Canada (scan down)

Lee Kotsalis-Thulin

Director: ModoSano Counselling

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy, Group Therapy, Outpatient

#509, 402 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC

Additional Communities Served: Lower Mainland B.C.

Office: 604-315-8118

Website: http://www.modosano.com

Email: info@modosano.com

Treatment Model: Client-centred eclectic approach, cognitive-behavioral, Adlerian, self-psychology, solution-focused.

Treats Anorexia and Bulimia and addictions; males and females, adolescents and adults.

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1996

Payment options: sliding scale, insurance, cash/check

If your life were presented as a classified ad in the careers section, would you be eager to apply?

"Wanted: Woman to work tirelessly in the service of others while denying she has any worth or value of her own. Must be proficient at self-denial and disconnect with a strong background in passive-aggressive acting out against herself and others".

Or: "Wanted: Man who knows what it means to live a life of 'quiet desperation'. Must have lost all sense of passion, meaning, and purpose. Experience with a mood disorder and addictive attachments to substances an asset but not required".

It seems that in our harried existence, we are often left struggling to find balance - in our work and home life, in our relationships with our partner, family and friends, in our relationships with food and alcohol, even in our relationship with ourselves. In Italian, to do something "en modo sano" means to find a healthy and balanced approach, and that is the foundation of my counselling practice - helping clients discover a balanced and effective path to health, healing, and reconnection.

Kerry Moller, MA, RCC, Registered Clinical Counselor #2750

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Couples Therapy, Group Therapy, Phone Counselling

675 West Hastings, #901, Vancouver, B.C., V6B 1N2 Canada

Office: 604-314-1839

Website: www.kerrymoller.com

Email: kerry@kerrymoller.com

Treatment Model: Recovering from a history of disordered eating is possible, regardless of how long you may have been struggling with it.   My philosophy on disordered eating is that it is never just about food; rather, it has its roots in emotional issues, historical experiences and societal influences. It is therefore important to address healing on multiple levels, including: mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellness.

Kerry Moller treats Anorexia and Bulimia; males and females, adolescents, and adults. Kerry Moller also works with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, Compulsive Overeating, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Night Eating Syndrome.

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Credit Cards, Insurance, Sliding Scale

Kerry Moller is a Registered Clinical Counselor with a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and a specialization in Expressive Arts Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. She uses a unique blend of cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodrama, psychodynamic therapy, gestalt therapy and art therapy in helping clients overcome their difficult relationship with food. 

Beau Cote Centre For Eating Disorders

Inpatient, Residential Treatment, EMDR, Holistic Healing, Nutritional Counseling, Medical Evaluation, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy, Group Therapy, Support Groups

RR#1 AR-49, Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G0 Canada

Additional Communities Served: Washington, British Columbia, Alberta, Oregon, California

Office: 604-947-9003

Website: www.beaucote.ca

Email: info@beaucote.ca

Treatment Model: Beau Cote is dedicated to offering a healing and dynamic environment, allowing for personal insight and the integration of mind, body, emotions, and spirit. Our unique treatment program emphasizes underlying psychological, emotional, and relational conflicts. The Beau Cote Program is designed to achieve behavior and mood stabilization in a climate that allows self- destructive behaviors to be interrupted. Patients can then start the crucial process of working on the underlying core issues that cause or perpetuate the eating disorder. The program includes traditional therapeutic methods and science-based best practices for treating Eating Disorders. We use the best of western and eastern medical philosophies, as well as a diverse range of complimentary healing therapies.

Beau Cote is a unique and progressive residential centre exclusively devoted to helping women aged 19 and over in their struggle with anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating/binge eating and other related disorders; Compulsive Exercising, Food Addiction, Compulsive Overeating, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD). The Beau Cote "beautiful dimensions" model is designed in a holistic way to be responsive to the mind, body, feelings, relational, and spiritual dimensions of each person in our care. Only when the whole person is treated can recovery from an eating disorder begin.

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 2007 / Licensed under CCALA/CCFL-VCH

Payment Options: Money Order/Cashiers Check, Credit Cards

Patients live in semi-private rooms in a home-like, yet structured environment that includes 24-hour care and emotional support. This environment allows you to focus on your recovery and resolve long- standing problems faster and more completely than is possible in other lower intensive and less structured levels of care. The number of residential days varies from a minimum of 30 up to 90 days, depending upon our initial assessment of your clinical needs and an ongoing daily review of your progress. We have found that this length of time is more effective for long-term stability and recovery from an eating disorder.

Germany:

German Eating Disorder Resource Page: http://www.bulimie.de

Ireland:

Marino Therapy Centre

Contact Person: Marie Soskova-Campion

Outpatient, Medical Evaluation, Nutritional Counselling, Coaching, EMDR, Hypnosis, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy, Support Groups

42 Malahide Road, Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland

Office: 00353 1 8333126

Website: www.marinotherapycentre.com

Email: marinotherapycentre@gmail.com

Treatment Model: Psycholinguistic Motivational Model based on Multidisciplinary Approach, Helpline, Family Work, Nutritional Education, Activity Therapy, Group Therapy, Educational Workshops, Intensive Programmes, Training, School Talks.

Marino Therapy Centre treats Anorexia and Bulimia; males and females, children, adolescents, and adults. Marino Therapy Centre also works with Athletes, Night Eating Syndrome, Pica, Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1993

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Sliding Scale

The Marino Therapy Centre (MTC) is an establishment where people with Eating Distress are being helped to find a different way of thinking about themselves and a different way of using their potential. The centre offers a secure environment full of understanding and empathy. A structured approach using the latest methodology and working with the person’s own model of the world is applied. Each program is specially tailored for person’s needs. The client undergoes an extensive evaluation to determine the severity of the problem and establish a positive treatment regime.

The MTC team is comprised of 11 eating distress practitioners, specialising in PLMM and 10 careworkers who all recovered through the MTC programme. The clinic’s program provides a comprehensive, supportive, personal and tailored treatment experience for people who require a more structured treatment environment. The client enters the proper treatment setting at MTC. In each of these settings he/she will be provided with intensive psychological care and thereafter begin a program of behaviour modification that will show how to break the dysfunction with food and weight.

New Zealand:

Judy Lightstone, Ph.D., M.S., M.S., California L.M.F.T., New Zealand Registered Psychologist #90-03237

PsychoSomatic Institute and Psychotherapy

254 Lincoln Road, Suite 5, Henderson, West Auckland, 0610 New Zealand

Office:: 09 8351929

Private Practice/Individual Counseling, Outpatient, EMDR, Family Therapy, Couples Therapy, Group Therapy, Workshops*, Support Groups, Phone Counseling. Also online consultation and continuing education (registered California provider and licensed California MFT)

Additional communities served: Auckland Central West Auckland, International Online “Office” www.psychotherapist.org (510) 962-5704 (local call for residents of California East Bay Area) Online Training and Consultation http://www.psychotherapist.org/~judylight/Continuing_Educationnz.htm 

Office: 09 8351929

Website: www.psychotherapist.org; www.psychotherapist.org.nz; http://www.psychotherapist.org/Continuing_Education.htm 

Email: jlightstone@gmail.com 

Treatment Model: Feminist Object Relations, EMDR/DNMS/LI, Psychosomatic Integration, ego state work, trauma work

Dr . Lightstone treats Anorexia and Bulimia in adolescent and adult women. Ms. Lightstone also works with Compulsive Exercisers, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, Compulsive Overeating, Night Eating Syndrome, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1984

Payment Options: cash/check, sliding scale

*Training programs and consultations for therapists and interns.

You may have been put on diets or diet pills, forced to eat when you weren't hungry, weighed and lectured by well meaning (or not so well meaning?) doctors or relatives, or felt otherwise disrespected and intruded upon. I will not be weighing you or telling you what or what not to eat. This may feel like a relief, or you may not like that. Some people become dependent on others to tell them what to eat. I will simply be encouraging you to sense your hunger and satiation points, and to notice when you can follow them as guides, and when it seems too difficult. We may choose to include journal, art, or movement work, and guided fantasies to help you express what the eating problem has been trying to say. Ultimately, you will learn to eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full. But in the meantime, when you cannot always do this, we will use the symptoms to point us to the triggers and issues in your life that you have been using bingeing, purging, starving and/or dieting to solve. We work these through one by one, until you feel strong enough to face these difficulties without depriving or punishing yourself with food. My Treatment Model incorporates Feminist Object Relations, EMDR/DNMS/LI, Psychosomatic Integration, ego state work and trauma work. For a description of PsychoSomatic Integration click here: http://www.psychotherapist.org/~judylight/#PSI.

UK England:

Alison Jenkins, RGN, RM, BSc Hons

Changing Lives Online Counselling Service

Individual Therapy/Private Practice Online

Online Counselling based out of England

Additional Communities Served: She works worldwide as she purely offers online counselling

Office: 01480 395842

Website: www.counsellingchangeslives.com

Email: questions@counsellingchangeslives.com

Treatment Model: Combination - person centred, cognitive behavioural, nutritional, coaching and nursing

Alison Jenkins treats Anorexia and Bulimia; males and females, adolescents, and adults. Alison Jenkins also works with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, Night Eating Syndrome and Compulsive Overeating.

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1993

Payment Options: Credit Cards

Changing Lives Online Counselling Service - Alison Jenkins offers a unique online counselling service via a secure encrypted e-mail service. She is one of only 7 people trained in the world to this standard through Toronto University. Alison has recovered from severe binge eating disorder and is able to offer both professional and personal experience to help you in your recovery. Your life really can change; the hopelessness can fade away and be replaced by a wonderful recovery that is better than your wildest dreams. Alison is living proof of what can be achieved in recovery. Alison Jenkins RGN, RM, BSc Hons, Dip Counselling, Cybercounselling Level 1 & 2, Member of BACP.

Michelle Matoff, LCSW, BCD

Private practice, individual, and group therapy, peer consultation, Gastric Bypass Evaluations, and phone counseling

The Old School, Llanyblodwel, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY10 8NQ England

Office: 011 44 01691828677

Website: www.mind-mechanic.co.uk

Email: mindmechanic@tiscali.co.uk

Treatment Model: Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioral, Interpersonal, Feminist, Gestalt, Spiritual (non-religious), Experiential

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1988

Ms. Matoff has 19 years experience providing peer consultations and group and individual therapy for adolescents and adults who suffer from eating disorders which include bulimia, anorexia, exercise addiction, compulsive overeating, laxative abuse, and Night Eating Syndrome. In addition, Michelle offers evaluations required by insurance companies for Gastric Bypass Surgery.

I work with my patients to develop healthy body image, identify triggers that contribute to the practice of eating disorder behavior, identify feelings the eating disorder hides, work on relapse prevention, learn to meet emotional needs in healthy ways, and find meaning in life beyond the eating disorder.

Payment Options: cash/check

Judy Price

Happyweight Ltd

Individual Therapy/Private Practice, Nutritional Counseling, Coaching, Holistic Healing, Hypnosis, Group Therapy, Phone Counseling

121 Marina, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, TN38 0BN England

Office: 44 1424 434606

Website: www.happyweight.com

Email: enquiries@happyweight.com

Treatment Model: Eclectic mix: no dieting, CBT, NLP, EFT, nutritional and more

Judy Price treats Bulimia in males and females, infants, children, adolescents, and adults. Ms. Price also works with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, Pica, Night Eating Syndrome, Compulsive Overeating, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 1998

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Credit Cards

Judy Price is the diet expert - she has done them all, been there, seen that, got the t-shirt! She broke free from dieting and solved her weight problem once and for all. She found that life can be wonderful when you no longer have to spend your whole life dieting or beating yourself up about food or your body. She has developed a programme that draws from her skills in nutrition and psychotherapy to assist you in getting to your happy weight too. She runs courses and workshops in the UK and offers mentoring by telephone or via her distance learning course. Judy is the Director of Happyweight, Master Practitioner in NLP, Hypnotherapy & Time Line Therapy, Trainer of NLP, Nutritionist (BANT), and Affiliate Practitioner of the National Centre for Eating Disorders.

Web Resources:

BANA-Bulimia Anorexia Nervosa Association

Office: 519-969-2112 

Email: info@bana.ca  

Overview: Committed to the provision of specialized treatment education and support services for individuals affected directly and indirectly by eating disorders. BANA's Vision: To be recognized in the community as the primary source for the prevention and treatment of eating disorders. To be the leader in promoting the acceptance of diverse body shapes and sizes through the adoption of a healthy and balanced lifestyle. 

PsychNet-UK: http://www.psychnet-uk.com

Eating Disorders Association: http://www.edauk.com. National charity (formed in 1989 by the amalgamation of three established eating disorders charities) providing information, help and support for people affected by eating disorders and, in particular, anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Details of local contacts in your area are freely available to callers ringing our national helpline. Telephone Helpline:  0845 634 1414 (Mon-Fri 08:30h - 20:30h. Sat. 13:00h - 16:30h) Youthline: 0845 634 7650 (Mon-Fri 16:00h - 18:30h. Sat. 13:00h - 16:30h). email info@edauk.com.

Eating Disorders Support: http://www.cusu.cam.ac.uk/campaigns/eds/

National Centre for Eating Disorders: www.eating-disorders.org.uk

Mental Health - UK: www.mentalhealth.org.uk

Healing The Eating Habit: www.healingweight.com

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