The full range.
Anorexia nervosa — restriction, fear of weight gain, distorted body experience. Therapy alongside medical and dietetic care when needed.
Bulimia nervosa — binge-purge cycles, the shame loop, the body and emotional fallout.
Binge-eating disorder — recurring binge episodes without purging; often the most under-recognized of the eating disorders.
ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) — restriction driven by sensory, fear, or low-interest factors rather than body image.
OSFED & sub-clinical patterns — disordered eating that doesn’t fit a tidy diagnostic box but is disrupting your life.
Body-image distress — the persistent, distressing focus on appearance that may or may not be tied to eating behaviour.
Recovery maintenance — staying steady after acute treatment; relapse-warning planning; rebuilding life around the parts of you that aren’t the eating disorder.
Evidence-based, culturally aware.
CBT-E (Enhanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for eating disorders) — the structured framework with the strongest evidence base across eating-disorder presentations (Fairburn et al., 2009).
ACT — values-based work for clients where rigid rules around food and body are entangled with broader perfectionism and avoidance.
Narrative therapy — externalising the eating disorder as something separate from you, so we can take a position on it together.
Family-systems framing — where appropriate, particularly for younger clients or when family dynamics are part of the system.
Cultural and language fit — for South Asian and Pakistani clients, sessions are available in Urdu, Hindi, or English with a therapist who works with the specific shape body-image and food carry in those families.
The therapist on the team who does this work.
Browse and click into a bio. The free consult is a call to talk through fit, fees, and insurance.
Eating-disorder therapy, asked and answered.
Do you do weight monitoring or nutrition planning?
No — those belong with your medical doctor and registered dietitian respectively. We can work alongside them and coordinate as appropriate. We are a psychology practice; the therapy here addresses the psychological, relational, and trauma dimensions.
I’m not “thin enough” to have an eating disorder — should I come anyway?
Yes. Most eating disorders don’t fit the stereotype. Binge-eating disorder, bulimia, ARFID, and atypical anorexia all occur across the full range of body sizes. The diagnosis is about the behaviour and the distress, not appearance.
Are you a hospital or medical program?
No. We’re a private outpatient practice. Severe, medically unstable eating disorders may need stabilization through Alberta Health Services or hospital-based programs first — we can work alongside or after that care, or as primary care for less-acute presentations and recovery work.
What about recovery and relapse?
Recovery is non-linear. Therapy in this phase often focuses on relapse-warning awareness, rebuilding identity outside the eating disorder, and addressing the trauma or perfectionism that originally fed it.
Are sessions covered by insurance?
Most extended health plans cover Registered Psychologists and Registered Provisional Psychologists. Direct billing is available with Blue Cross.
In-person or online?
Both. Sessions at our Calgary office (2640 30 St SW) or by encrypted video for clients across Alberta.
References
Fairburn, C. G., Cooper, Z., Doll, H. A., O’Connor, M. E., Bohn, K., Hawker, D. M., Wales, J. A., & Palmer, R. L. (2009). Transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral therapy for patients with eating disorders: A two-site trial with 60-week follow-up. American Journal of Psychiatry, 166(3), 311–319. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.08040608
Twenty minutes. On the phone. Free.
Tell us what’s going on and ask anything — insurance, format, fees, what a first session looks like. You’ll be on the call with one of our therapists, and we’ll go from there together. If we’re not the right practice for you, we’ll say so.