Everyone’s journey will be different, and the length of time will depend on how much “dieting trauma” you have suffered from over the years. The more diets you have been on the more “undoing” you will need to address. Change doesn’t happen overnight, and it will depend on how many personal barriers your have to overcome to make peace with food. It can take time to restore the natural intuitive eater inside you and learn to trust your inner wisdom.  We have designed packages that will help you at whatever stage you are in your health journey. 

Our clients are often VERY surprised at their first appointment when we don’t make them take off their shoes and weight them on the clinic scale.

If you are trying to improve your health, your weight is only one piece of your journey, and surprisingly isn’t something you can ultimately control with long-term success. Our ability to help you alter the number on the scale is similar. We want to work with you to focus on the non-scale victories that you will achieve, as these prove to be more beneficial in the long run.

If you have dieted before, you will find that learning to implement the principles of intuitive eating takes less time than when you were endlessly recording and counting calories.  You will gain time back because you won’t be obsessing about food all the time. You will be given a small activity to work on after each appointment. It is up to you how much time you take to practice and implement the activities.  Some weeks it may seem like an easy task to do, and some weeks it might be harder. Intuitive eating is a new skill that you will have to learn to develop and work at practicing it. We will offer you suggestions on how to implement the principles in a way that will integrate into your lifestyle.  Overall, you will be spending less time working on intuitive eating than when you were following rigid diet plans and rules.

No, you do not have to pay the full amount upfront.  However some of our clients prefer to do so for accountability. If you want to direct bill your package, you will have to pay the co-pay amount upfront at your first appointment (portion that is not covered by your insurance ex. 80% covered). Our office manager will determine what you owe and let you know prior to your appointment. If you are not direct billing because you don’t want to use insurance, or if you have a plan that doesn’t allow us to direct bill (ex. Manulife or Sunlife), we will require a 50% deposit for you package at the time of your appointment. You will be issued insurance receipts after each appointment that you can use to submit to your insurance provider, or for your income tax.

Yes, if you can’t make it to in-person appointments, or if you live outside our clinic office locations, we would be more than happy to meet with you virtually via video conferencing or over the phone.