Individual therapy · In-person in Toronto and Online across Ontario
Your relationship with your body can become a place of care, not conflict.
Therapy can help you understand the beliefs, experiences, and pressures that have shaped how you relate to your body, food, appearance, and self-worth
Body image is about more than how you look.
Our relationship with our bodies can be shaped by family, culture, gender expectations, trauma, discrimination, relationships, health experiences, and years of receiving messages about what our bodies “should” be. You may notice that you:
- think about your appearance or weight frequently
- compare your body to other people
- feel shame, discomfort, or disconnection from your body
- struggle to trust hunger, fullness, or other body signals
- feel that your worth changes depending on how you look
Therapy can help us become curious about these patterns without reducing you to your eating habits, weight, or appearance..
How trauma therapy can help
What We Can Work on Together:
- understanding where body shame and criticism developed
- reducing obsessive comparison and appearance-based self-judgment
- becoming more connected to your body’s signals and needs
- exploring emotional relationships with food
- working with perfectionism, control, and people-pleasing
- processing trauma or experiences that changed your relationship with your body
- developing greater self-compassion and body respect
What May Begin to Feel Different:
- less time spent criticizing or monitoring your body
- greater ease around food and eating
- less comparison with other people
- greater freedom in clothing, movement, sex, and social situations
- more compassion toward your body when it changes
- a stronger sense of identity beyond appearance
- more trust in yourself and your body
WHO THERAPY CAN SUPPORT
Therapy may be a good fit if…
- you struggle with body dissatisfaction or body shame
- food and appearance take up more mental space than you want them to
- gender, sexuality, culture, race, disability, or immigration experiences have affected how you experience your body
- you want a more peaceful relationship with food and your body
- your body changed through illness, pregnancy, aging, medication, trauma, or life transitions
Starting therapy
Choose a therapist and appointment time that works for you. You can meet in person in Toronto or virtually across Ontario.
Your first session is a chance to talk about what brings you to therapy, what you hope will feel different, and what support might be most helpful.
Begin at your own pace
Together, we’ll build a therapy process that feels collaborative, thoughtful, and responsive to your needs..
Therapy for body image and disordered eating with Ivana Psychotherapy
Our therapists support clients who may be struggling with body shame, disordered eating, chronic self-criticism, comparison, or a difficult relationship with food and their bodies. We understand that these patterns are often shaped by trauma, family dynamics, cultural pressures, perfectionism, and experiences of not feeling safe or at home in yourself. Therapy is collaborative, compassionate, and paced with care. We pay attention not only to eating patterns or body image concerns, but also to the emotions, beliefs, relationships, and nervous system responses that may be holding them in place..
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Therapy in Toronto and online across Ontario
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Individual and couples therapy for adults Body Image & Disordered Eating In-Person and Online