While most of you will know this, in my counselling practice I help people who struggle with their relationships and who struggle with eating disorders or disordered eating. While people who struggle in their relationships don’t necessarily have issues with their bodies or food (though sometimes they do!), it is rare that someone who struggles… Read more

When you are trying to recover from an eating disorder you have enough on your plate yet alone trying to figure out the best kind of treatment options. So I thought I would be of some help and let you know what is available. Because the options will vary city to city I will give… Read more

I am not entirely sure what is going on this summer but it feels like relationships are ending left, right and center. I have had a big influx of people coming into my counselling practice who have recently gone through, or are going through a break up. When a relationship ends there is a lot… Read more

I am going to start this blog by clarifying something from the get go: Simple in my world means it isn’t complicated to understand, there is nothing more to it besides exactly what is being said, it is clear cut, almost a “what you see is what you get” kind of thing. Easy in my… Read more

When we have been in a relationship for a long time sometimes we start to assume that we know where our partner is wanting to go in their lives and the route they are planning to take to get there. While this may be true some of the time it often isn’t true most of… Read more

I was doing supervision the other day with my friend, colleague, mentor and all around incredible woman Diane Anderson (you can check out her website here) and she told me about an exercise she does with her clients. I was speaking about how easy it can be for people to only see what they are… Read more

Here we are again, talking about communication! I think this may just be the most discussed topic in relationships but for good reason. The way in which we build and maintain connection is through open communication. When those lines start to fail we can find ourselves stumbling and losing our relationship footing. Often couples will… Read more

I have been meeting a lot of interesting people this week, some who are in similar fields and others who have passions of their own but our paths have crossed. When I tell them what I do one of the first things I often hear about is how people who have eating disorders turn to… Read more

It is funny to me how when we are in a relationship for a long time we can lose sight of how to compliment our partner. As a relationship counsellor I have been working with this with quite a few of my couples over the past while and when we talk about what each person… Read more