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We believe in a personalized and client centered approach. This means that we offer different services in order to meet you where you're at and provide you with the appropriate level of support to reach your goals. All of our services focus on helping you improve your relationship with food and your body.
Based on where you are on the eating spectrum, here are the services that may be best for you:
Intuitive Eating
Disordered Eating
Eating Disorder
PersonalizeD sessions catered to your needs.
We offer individualized nutrition counselling with Registered Dietitians and/or individualized therapy session with Registered Psychotherapists or Registered Socila Worker.
Note: If you have an eating disorder, we may suggest the eating disorder recovery program.
What you need to know:
- Most folks work with our providers on average 6-12 months. This work takes time and we are here to support you along the way.
- Our providers work from a client centered and collaborative approach, we are here to support you and empower you through your care.
- We do not support folks with weight loss.
INDIVIDUALIZED SERVICES
EATING DISORDER RECOVERY PROGRAM
virtual 4 MONTH RECOVERY program
This program includes individual nutrition and therapy services, group therapy, meal support, parent/partner support and all care coordination.
Eating disorder recovery takes time and effort. We believe that with the right tools, a supportive team and evidence based practices, recovery is possible.
What you need to know:
- This is a step up from 1:1 care.
- You must be able to commit to at least 3h/week.
- We accept clients from all across Ontario, Canada
- This program is a minimum commitment of 4 months
THE BALANCED PROGRAM
Heal your relationship with food and your body
This program combines e-learning, workbooks, community support and weekly group Q&A.
Hundreds of folks have now joined this program and healed their relationship with food and body!
What you need to know:
- This is a group program and does not include 1:1 sessions
- This program is available worldwide🌎 (price displayed is in Canadian dollar)
- This is NOT a weight loss program
- This is NOT suitable for you if you have an active eating disorder (see ED recovery program)
SELF LED COURSES
Work at Your Own Pace Towards Food Freedom
All of our courses are created with an anti-diet and weight inclusive approach. We strive to provide the latest evidence in a digestible format so that you can easily apply what you learn into your everyday life.
What you need to know:
- We currently offer courses on intuitive eating, emotional eating, empowered eating and Health outside of diet culture.
- All courses are currently created and recording by Marie-Pier the practice founder and lead registered dietitian.
- DIY courses do not replace individualized or group services.
We believe in an anti diet, weight inclusivity and collaborative approach. We work from a HAES®, Intuitive Eating® and trauma informed lens.
Les services de diététistes sont également disponible en français.
We work with individuals of all genders/sexes.
We work with teenagers and adults.
We work with couples and families.
What you need to know
C.H.
Marie-Pier is one of the most positive and compassionate individuals I have ever met. She takes a very realistic and non- restrictive approach to nutrition that leads to a sustainable lifestyle. She truly cares about her clients and will work hard for them so they can achieve positive lifestyle milestones. She also has a fitness background so she understands the healthy balance between nutrition and fitness. I highly recommend Marie-Pier’s services
Positive and compassionate
P.G.
MP has been helping my daughter. She was diagnosed with anorexia in January. In the 6 months that MP has been seeing her, we have seen HUGE changes in our daughter's relationship with food and how she sees herself. MP is always available to answer questions or guide us. Our daughter is eating again and her health and state of mind have both improved. In tandem with our daughter's psychologist, things have moved forward and our happy and healthy daughter is coming back! I don't know where we would be if we had not stumbled upon MP....I could not ask for anyone better. Our daughter truly sees her as a mentor, a friend and most importantly an integral part if her recovery! Thanks MP!!
Integral part of her recovery!
H.D.
Marie-Pier is knowledgeable and professional. She makes me feel very welcome and at ease as we talk about my nutrition. Marie-Pier helps balance my diet and set goals for myself, she is easy to work with and I feel as if she truly cares about my health. If you are looking for someone to assist you in a healthier lifestyle, I would recommend The Balanced Dietitian.
Truly cares about my health
K.K.
It has a been a very beneficial and stress free experience. The program and nature of our sessions is exactly what I was hoping to gain when I started, and I am looking forward to finally breaking up with dieting. i do not have enough good things to say. Highly Recommend!
Highly recommend!
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Frequently Asked Questions
Our services are weight neutral which means that we do not use weight as a measure of success. We work from a weight inclusive standpoint and will work on your relationship to food and body and achieve goals regardless of weight. Some people lose weight, some remain the same and some gain weight. This depends where your body needs to be!
This will depend on your individual needs and goals. For eating disorders or disordered recovery, the average time is 6-8 months. For intuitive eating or building sustainable habits, the average is 3-6 months. The care plan will be created with your needs and capacity in mind.
As a registered dietitians and psychotherapists all information, personal and medical, shared with us will be kept confidential unless you consent to sharing information with 3rd party health professionals.
This is what we specialize in! We are here to support you through full recovery. We can support you from a nutrition and therapy standpoint. Our team works together to provide you the best care.
We can still support you. Unfortunately there are many barriers to getting a diagnosis and whether are not you have been diagnosed, your experience is valid and we are here to support. You do not need to wait to get help.
Although we work a lot with folx with eating disorders, we also LOVE to support folx who are looking to work on their food and body relationship from an anti diet perspective. We can work through emotional eating, intuitive eating, chronic illnesses and sports nutrition.
Yes! All of our clinicians are trained with kids, teens and adults. When working with kids, we use a family based approach to get parents or caregivers involved.
Yes! We can work with couples as well. In terms of booking, you can book under 1 person’s account and specify in notes that this will be for the couple. Each session with a couple is the price of appointment + $50.
At this time, we do not directly take insurance. However, many insurance companies cover dietetic services as well as psychotherapy. Please speak to your insurance company to find out more about this.
