If food and body thoughts are crowding your brain and quietly stealing your peace, we understand. We offer a safe, empathetic space to explore eating patterns, negative body image, and the emotional experiences that influence how you relate to food and your body.
Whether you're struggling with disordered eating, a formal diagnosis, or simply the daily battle of feeling guilty after eating, we're here to help you build a more peaceful and empowered approach to nourishment and self-care.
We focus on the person, not just the symptoms, to help you feel more like yourself again.
You Deserve to Stop Thinking About Food All Day.
Find Peace with Eating and Your Body
What is EMDR Therapy?
Integrated Care: Counselling & Nutrition That Sees the Whole You
Healing your relationship with food and your body requires care that addresses both the mind and the meal.
Sophie Koolen, our dual-credentialed Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) and Registered Dietitian (RD), offers a unique integrated approach that combines specialized binge eating disorder treatment and expertise in eating disorder recovery with evidence-based nutrition therapy.
Whole-Person Approach:
As a mental health professional with over ten years of experience, EMDR training, and specialized expertise, Sophie addresses the emotional and practical complexities of your well-being.
Compassion-First Framework:
We work within a weight-inclusive, anti-diet, and client-centred framework. We recognize that true recovery happens when we address the whole person, not just the disorder symptoms or the number on the scale.
What Can EMDR Treat?
Healing Your Relationship with Your Body
We help you address deep-seated body dissatisfaction and navigate negative body image by reducing shame and fostering genuine self-acceptance. Our dedicated therapy for body image issues is designed to help you build body trust and genuine body satisfaction.
Every step of our process is tailored with your mental and physical health in mind. Our trauma-informed approach draws on modalities including EMDR, Somatic Work, Emotion-Focused Family Therapy, and more, providing the comprehensive support you need.
If you are struggling with uncomfortable emotions that trigger stress eating or need emotional eating therapy to stop emotional eating, we are here to support you.
Your Path to a Peaceful Connection
Our goal is to help you develop a more flexible and peaceful relationship with food and your body. We believe in strengthening connections, both within yourself and in your relationships with others.
Our support includes:
Body Image Therapy:
Expert-led sessions empowering clients to challenge themselves.
Intuitive Eating Guidance:
From mechanical eating to intuitive eating, the journey is to find where you feel at peace with food.
Family Support:
We work with adults, youth (age 12+), families, and offer parental support for children (age 5+).
If you're ready to explore a more compassionate way forward and begin your journey toward improved self-esteem and a positive body image, we're here to help you trade guilt for grace.
No matter your background, identity, or where you are in your journey, you're welcome here.
The Outdoor Adventurer
Living for the next summit, ride, or backcountry challenge? Therapy helps make sense of the internal terrain that's present on every adventure, supporting you through future challenges.
The Homebody
Yes, you exist — even in Squamish! Not everyone's seeking adrenaline rushes. Your quiet, interior world is just as worth exploring.
Women in the In-Between
Not quite in your 20s anymore, but "middle-aged" doesn't fit either. We offer a feminist, life-stage-aware approach to reclaiming this rich (often under-supported) era. Health, hormones, menopause, and so much more.
The Expat
Straddling cultures, missing home, navigating a new normal — therapy can be a grounding space where you don't have to translate yourself. Whether you're bringing British dry humour or longing for a deeper connection, we get it.
Caregivers, Parents & Helping Professionals
Burnout, compassion fatigue, emotional labour — if you spend your life holding others up, it's okay to need space to be held too.
First Responders
You manage high-stress, trauma-exposed roles and still have a personal life to juggle. Therapy offers a confidential space to unpack both.
Entrepreneurs & Business Folks
High-pressure work, leadership stress, impostor syndrome — therapy helps navigate the emotional weight behind high-stakes decisions and carve out that elusive work/life balance.
The "Lost Soul"
Maybe you were the Peter Pan type — seasonal work, freedom, no fixed plans. Now you want more… but you're not sure what "more" looks like. We can work with that.
The Neurospicy Crew (ADHD, Autism & Beyond)
Fast brains, unique wiring, quirky strengths — we get it. We help you better understand your brain, build on your strengths, and explore how this fits with relationships, work, and wellbeing.
Men
We know therapy can feel unfamiliar. We offer a style that suits you — whether that's private space for deep emotional work, something more grounded and pragmatic, or support accessing emotions that aren't always easy to reach.
Queer, trans, non-binary, or questioning
Whether you're out, exploring, or somewhere in between, therapy can be a space where you don't have to explain the basics. Your identity isn't up for debate — just show up as you are, and we'll meet you with curiosity and care.
Living in a body that's disabled, chronically ill, or outside the thin ideal
Whether you're navigating access barriers, medical gaslighting, or trying to rest without guilt — your body isn't the problem. Therapy is a place to be heard, supported, and real — no fixing required.
Indigenous, First Nations, and Métis
We know therapy exists within systems shaped by colonialism. Our aim is to offer space rooted in respect — for your lived experience, your knowledge, and your definition of healing.
BIPOC folks in mostly white spaces
Code-switching, cultural load, intergenerational weight — it's exhausting. Therapy can be a space where you don't have to translate or shrink your experience to fit.
