Eating Disorders therapists in Vancouver, BC
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Eating Disorders
Spencer Copland
Registered Psychotherapist, RCC, MCP
Eating disorders can feel all-consuming, impacting your relationship with food, your body, and how you experience yourself. You may find yourself caught in cycles of restriction, bingeing, or feeling out of control around food, often alongside shame, guilt, or a harsh inner critic. These patterns are often rooted in past experiences, serving as protective ways of coping—even if they no longer feel helpful.
In our work together, we’ll take a trauma-informed approach, exploring your relationship with food and your body with curiosity, compassion, and without judgment. Rather than focusing on control or quick fixes, we’ll gently work with the underlying experiences and nervous system patterns shaping these behaviours, moving at a pace that feels safe and supportive.
I draw from EMDR, IFS, ACT, Mindfulness-Based CBT, and somatic-based practices, tailoring our work to your needs and readiness. When appropriate, EMDR can help process underlying experiences contributing to disordered eating, creating space for new ways of relating to yourself. Together, we’ll build practical tools while supporting deeper healing and a more compassionate, sustainable relationship with food and your body.
I offer both in-person and virtual counselling sessions. You’re welcome to reach out or visit my website to book a free 20-minute phone consultation to see if we’re a good fit.
6 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V6B 1T6
Online in Vancouver, BC
Eating Disorders
Sophia Kopelow
Counsellor/Therapist, MA, RCC
If you’re yearning to shift your relationship with food and feel more in tune and loving towards your body, I’m here to support you. Having gone through my own healing journey, I know how vulnerable it can feel to reach out. I approach body image and disordered eating from a holistic perspective– combining therapeutic techniques that involve the mind, body and soul. Eating disorders are a coping strategy, and I help support clients get curious and heal from the underlying pain they are trying to protect themselves from.
6 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V6C 1V5
Online in Vancouver, BC
Eating Disorders
Shelley Murphy, Food & Body Image Hypnotherapist
Hypnotherapist, BASc, Former RD
Shelley brings a rare combination of expertise as a former registered dietitian turned hypnotherapist. Hypnotherapy can be supportive for many people with past or present disordered eating patterns. My trauma-informed, non-diet approach helps reduce shame, increase safety, and rebuild trust with your body. In some cases, collaboration with other providers may be recommended.
3 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Eating Disorders
Anna MacGillivray
Counsellor/Therapist, MCP, RCC
I believe that embodiment allows for true health. So many of us spend time disconnected from, hating on, and uncomfortable in our bodies. Focusing on healing the wounds that separated you from your body can help build a stronger sense of self esteem and bring back safety to the body.
8 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V6Z 1K7
Online in Vancouver, BC
Eating Disorders
Carol D.B. Whaley Counselling and Psychotherapy
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Eating Disorders develop as a way of navigating deep unresolved emotional pain and trauma. All our emotions and trauma are stored in our bodies. Working with eating disorders involves not only navigating the behavioural symptoms of disordered eating but more importantly developing a compassionate relationship to the body by connecting in, to where the emotional pain is stored. Together, with compassion and understanding we work on lifting the shame connected to body image and the external ways that has been created, then facing the deeper internal emotional issues at the root. It is possible to fully heal from disordered eating.
42 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V5Z 4C2
Online in Vancouver, BC
Eating Disorders
Transversality Counselling & Psychotherapy
Counsellor/Therapist, Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors
Our identities are socially constructed so it is our relationship with our body, normalizing that relationship can clear the space for a kind and compassionate relationship with our bodies. Developing our agentic empowered self as a strategy to negotiate the pressure and challenges we experience in our lives.
16 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Eating Disorders
Nightingale Counselling
Counsellor/Therapist, RCC, MSW
At Nightingale Counselling, we take a non-pathologizing approach to disordered eating, recognizing that the problem is not a fixed part of who someone is, but an experience that happens in a person's life and one that is treatable with the right support. We understand that disordered eating is rooted in a complex interweaving of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors, and our therapists are trained to explore all three dimensions rather than focusing narrowly on behaviour or weight alone. As one of the only group psychotherapy practices in Vancouver with direct connections to dieticians and other allied health professionals, we are uniquely positioned to offer the multidisciplinary, collaborative care that meaningful and lasting recovery from disordered eating requires.
6 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V6H 3K2
Online in Vancouver, BC
Eating Disorders
Suzanne Nievaart
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
I help you explore your relationship to your body and food.
1 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Eating Disorders
Nicklas Ehrlich
Counsellor/Therapist, MSW, RCC (#0843), RSW (#11561), Psychotherapist, Counsellor, Life-Coach, Hypnotherapist, Advanced Neurofeedback Trainer
Eating disorders can come from a core non-secure attachment when young, anxiety, insecurity, depression, perfectionism, lack of self love and accepting self, trauma, environmental conditioning, interruption and being stuck in a younger developmental stage and unable to complete/move up the stages.
46 Years Experience
In-Person Near Vancouver, BC
Online in Vancouver, BC
Eating Disorders
Rose laure Agbazan
Hypnotherapist, Clinical hypnotherapist, Clinical Aromatherapist CAHP
Disordered eating often reflects a deeper need for control, comfort, or safety. We work compassionately with the emotional roots so nourishment becomes less about punishment and more about care.
0 Years Experience
In-Person Near Vancouver, BC
Online in Vancouver, BC
Vancouver's extreme housing affordability crisis has become a defining mental health issue, with therapists frequently addressing financial stress, housing precarity, and the grief of displacement from a city many can no longer afford to stay in. The city's large Asian community — particularly its Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and South Asian populations — drives demand for culturally fluent therapists who can navigate family dynamics, immigration stress, and the intersection of cultural expectations with individual wellbeing. BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services provides institutional support, while Vancouver's large private therapy community is concentrated in Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Commercial Drive, and the West End. BC's expanded telehealth access makes it easier to connect with therapists across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley.
Eating Disorders therapists in Vancouver, BC Statistics
Eating Disorders therapists in Vancouver, BC average 13 years of experience and charge around $155 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (73%), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (65%), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) (58%).
Average years in practice
13 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$155
Accept insurance
68%
Offer sliding scale
53%
Gender ID
| 74% |
Female |
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| 22% |
Male |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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| 2% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 62% |
In Person and Online |
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| 38% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 73% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 65% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 58% | Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) |
| 58% | Narrative Therapy |
| 58% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 55% | Internal Family Systems (IFS) |
| 55% | Somatic Therapy |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 80% | Teen |
| 78% | Young Adult |
| 73% | Senior |
| 40% | Children |
Client Focus
| 73% | Women |
| 60% | LGBTQ+ |
| 60% | Men |
| 48% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 40% | Native American |