Being in a body is complicated, especially in a world that only believes certain bodies are worthy.

The way you think about and experience your body has a significant impact on your life, your happiness, your relationships, and your mental health. We know that your family, your friends, the culture you live in, your race, gender, class, size, ability, and so much more influence your body story.

You deserve to know peace with food, to reclaim the wisdom of your body (free from shame), and to cultivate a relationship with your body of trust and pleasure. When you learn to hear & trust your body, so many other things begin to make sense.

Whether you’re struggling with food, weight, body shame, dieting, disordered eating, atypical anorexia, or you’re interested in exploring fat liberation, Health at Every Size (HAES), intuitive eating, Body Trust®, pleasure practices, and what coming home to yourself could look like, we are here for you.

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Our therapists can support you to…

  • examine your relationship with food and your body

  • move away from body shame and towards body neutrality

  • cultivate and practice Body Trust® and what coming home to yourself could look like

  • take a trauma-focused approach to healing from atypical anorexia, orthorexia, and other eating disorders

  • explore fat positivity, what it means to break-up with diet culture and implement an anti-diet approach

  • feel less alone in the ways your body is changing whether it’s grown in size, become disabled, transitioned into perimenopause, exploring gender, or aged

  • practice embodiment in ways that are gentle and affirm your history, gender, and experience

Your body has a story.

That story deserves to be heard.

At Tend and Cultivate Counselling, we understand…

Eating disorders don’t have a size.

Despite the common assumption that eating disorders “look” a certain way, we know that people of any size can struggle with food, anorexia, movement, and eating behaviours.

Weight stigma is common among therapists.

Sadly, anti-fat bias and fatphobia (along with diet culture) are far too common in the field of mental health. We are intentionally disrupting that norm. Regardless of your size, your body will never be a problem in our work together.

Being in a body is complicated.

We are here to support you in finding more ease, more acceptance, more joy, more pleasure, more healing, more confidence, and more nourishment so that you can live more fully in this body.