Counselling for Eating Disorders, Disordered Eating, and Body Image:

Stacey is trained to treat Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder, ARFID, disordered eating and body image concerns. She is a registered provider with NEDIC and completed her Family Based Therapy and Adolescent Focused Therapy trainings with Kara Fitzpatrick in 2016. Stacey has also taken training in DBT for Eating Disorders with Anita Federici, and Emotion-Focused Family Therapy for Eating Disorders with Adele La France. Stacey has also taken a variety of virtual trainings in CBT-e, Intuitive Eating, and No More Weighting through BeNourished (now the Center for Body Trust.)

Stacey’s approach for working with disordered eating and Eating Disorders is grounded in self-compassion, the philosophy of Health at Every Size, along with body neutrality and respect. She works with clients, and complimentary providers, to encourage sustainable daily nutrition and movement practices to help individuals overcome restrictive and/or compulsive relationships with food and exercise.

In Stacey’s work she uses a phased treatment approach independent of the specific counselling model. In Phase 1 the focus is on working in collaboration with a Registered Dietitian and Primary Care Provider to improve nutrition status, interrupt compensatory behaviours, and challenge “food rules.” Phase 2 begins once a regular pattern of eating including all food groups has been established. During this phase there is a focus on developing distress tolerance and rebuilding body trust and respect. Phase 3 is about maintaining recovery.

For folks who are in remission from an Eating Disorder, or in Phase 2 or later in Eating Disorder Recovery, Stacey also offers EMDR. This targeted trauma treatment goes to the root of the issue to allow for deep healing, beyond behaviour change.

Stacey also works with individuals impacted by chronic illness, disability, and neurodiversity who struggle with food and body image.