Body Image therapists in Tecumseh, Ontario ON, Canada CA
Body Image
Dana Dupuis
Registered Social Worker, BA, BSW, MSW, RSW
We all struggle with body image to a certain degree, this is a fact of life for most of us living in North American culture. When our negative body image becomes all consuming and troublesome, it can impact our daily life and erode our self-esteem. If this is you, I will work with you to understand the origins of your body image issues, what is maintaining it and how we can start to challenge some of those beliefs using a number of strategies.
12 Years Experience
Body Image
Rose Verzosa
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Poor body image can impact how someone interacts with the world and themselves. It is my goal to help you create a healthier/more positive relationship with your body. I practice from an trauma and eating disorder informed position to ensure that we are addressing all the ways you are experiencing your body and the way you interact with the world and your relationships.
3 Years Experience
Body Image
Katie Pula
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist
Exploring emotions and identifying a deeper understanding for feelings of body dissociation, body dysmorphia, and low self-esteem. Explore and identify self-care and coping strategies that bring awareness and healing.
12 Years Experience
Body Image
Caitlin Marchand
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
It can be really difficult to have a great relationship with your body when we constantly receive messages from our families, society, and the media about how we are "supposed" to look. Not liking the way you look can negatively impact your daily life as well as your self-esteem. I am curious about the things you like about your body, and work collaboratively with clients to explore and challenge narratives of how bodies "should" look, while highlighting ways to invite more self-love and self-compassion into your life. Book a free consultation to learn more about my approach and explore if we are a good fit.
6 Years Experience
Body Image
Adrienne Sharma-Richardson PhD MEd RP OCT
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Gestalt Psychotherapist Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Gottman Trained Couples Therapist
I have borrowed Andrew Seuber's approach to working with a negative body image, that is from the inside out.
He suggests that "The negative image is understood as a dissociated and shame-based “part” of the personality in need of understanding and compassion, achieved via mindful awareness, “parts” dialogue and trauma processing.
The first step is to create healthy separation between the "observing" or aware Self and the part(s) absorbed in the eating disorder via mindful awareness.
Once this separation between the "whole" self and part of self is established, the Gestalt polarity tradition (empty chairs) is utilized to develop understanding of the shame-based part.
Understanding leads to compassion for the eating disordered part from a non-enmeshed state of consciousness, aka the aware self, the experiencing self, the observing self.
Healing of the eating disordered part occurs when that part no longer feels exiled as a "not-I" and is assisted in processing the traumatic roots of the disorder."
11 Years Experience