services

  • Interested in working with me? Choosing a therapist that you like is an important part of the therapeutic journey.

    Book a free 15-minute discovery call to discuss your concerns and goals and to see if it’s a good fit.

  • A safe and judgement free space to explore the thoughts and feelings that keep you stuck with a therapist that utilizes a warm and evidence-based approach to wellness.

    This service is available in person or virtually using the JANE platform.

  • This service is only available for residents of Alberta.

    This is a safe space to explore your nutrition and mental health concerns with a registered dietitian and psychotherapist in the same session.

    This service aims to bridge the gap between nutrition and mental health in a way that helps you better understand the foods, meal patterns, and macronutrient needs that can support your mental and physical health.

    This service may include:

    • review of your meals and snacks

    • review of the micro and macro nutrients that would best support your mental health

    • easy meal and snack ideas

    This service is best suited for clients who want a comprehensive approach for the following conditions:

    • anxiety, depression, and ADHD

    • body image and emotional eating

    This service WILL NOT replace nutrition counselling for medical conditions that require intensive nutrition support from a registered dietitian (e.g., diabetes, IBS, eating disorder).

  • A safe and judgement free space to explore your diet with an evidence-based approach to wellness.

    ADHD is linked with food issues, sensory issues, risk for pain and gut issues that can interfere with a person’s ability to obtain adequate nutrients and consistent meals and snacks.

    As a person with ADHD, chronic pain and a host of sensory issues, I understand that its difficult to eat well when you don't feel well. I also dread cooking and understand that it's really difficult to eat well when you aren't into cooking.

    If this sounds like you, I may be able to help. While I don't have all of the answers, I am able to assess your diet, review your labs and offer practical advice on the systems that may support you.

    I aim to provide an overview of information on the foods and ways of eating that have been found to work best for people with ADHD. Along with meal and snack ideas, dietary handouts and sensory suggestions.

    If you want more in depth support that focuses on the mental and emotional barriers to behaviour change, I would encourage you to consider the 'Nutrition & Psychotherapy' sessions, because as a Registered Dietitian I am unable to step into my therapeutic role without consent. For this reason, these sessions will ONLY focus on education, meal and snack ideas & practical barriers to behaviour change.

    Available to residents of Alberta only.

    Available for clients of all ages with the consent of a parent or guardian.

    This service is available in person or virtually using the JANE platform.

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nutrition & psychotherapy

  • To get started with the ‘nutrition & psychotherapy’ sessions, book a 60 minute initial psychotherapy assessment. After this appointment, you have two options:

    1. Book a ‘60 minute initial nutrition assessment’ and continue with ‘nutrition & psychotherapy’ sessions.

    2. OR, continue with psychotherapy sessions until you are ready to add nutrition in to your sessions. At this point in time, you can book a ‘60 minute initial nutrition assessment’.

  • Yes, at any point in time you are able to switch from booking nutrition and psychotherapy sessions to psychotherapy sessions.

    Likewise, if you start with psychotherapy sessions (and you are residing in Alberta), you just need to book a 60 - minute initial nutrition assessment to get started with nutrition & psychotherapy sessions.

  • To comply with ethical standards for both professions, your information will be kept separately in discipline specific chart notes.

    In the event that I am unable to continue working, my nutrition notes will be transferred to another dietitian and my psychotherapy notes will be transferred to a psychologist.

  • ‘nutrition and psychotherapy’ sessions involve two separate professions (dietetics) and (psychotherapy).

    To meet ethical requirements of both professions and for your health benefits, billing will be separated by the discipline (nutrition vs. psychotherapy) for time spent in 15 - minute increments.

    For example:

    A 60-minute ‘nutrition & psychotherapy’ session could be billed in the following ways (based on time spent):

    • 45-minutes psychotherapy & 15-minutes nutrition OR vice versa.

    • 30-minutes psychotherapy & 30-minutes nutrition

    • 60-minutes psychotherapy & 0-minutes nutrition OR vice versa

  • There are a number of workshops from the Primary Care Network (PCN) that aim to tackle topics like mental health, happiness, and chronic pain from a variety of disciplines.

  • Given my dual role, I limit the nutrition services that I offer to reduce the risk of stepping into my role as a therapist without consent.

    Therapy services tend to go deeper into a person’s history and require a much more in depth consent process. Stepping into my role as a therapist in a nutrition session would be unethical.

    This is why, I am only offering nutrition sessions for people with ADHD and chronic pain, as ADHD comes with many practical barriers to eating well.

    When possible, I recommend choosing “nutrition with psychotherapy” so that we can explore the mental and emotional barriers to behaviour change.

    As my nutrition sessions focused on ADHD and chronic pain are unable to address these aspects of a person’s experience, as it is difficult to know when behaviour change interventions would not fit within the role of a dietitian.

    To protect my licenses, I need to ensure that I have appropriate consent and clear distinctions between when I am acting as a therapist or a dietitian.

  • Not at this time.

  • In an effort to promote a healthier relationship with food & our bodies, I focus more on changing behaviour & attitudes than on outcomes.

  • As a dietitian, I lack competency in addressing most eating disorders like anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. If you are looking for a dietitian that specializes in eating disorders check out:

    • The Nourish Collective in Edmonton: https://www.thenourishcollective.ca/

    • OR, get a referral from your doctor for a dietitian that focuses on ‘mental health’ or ‘eating disorders’.