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I help individuals struggling with food and body image concerns build a more peaceful relationship with food and themselves.

Eating Disorder Therapy for Binge Eating, Emotional Eating & Body Image Support Online In Langley, Abbotsford & across British Columbia

Counselling Support

Do you try to control your eating during the day, only to feel out of control at night? Are you turning to food to cope and then feel guilt or shame? Do you wish you could feel more at ease in your body, without constant self criticism?

Struggles with food and body image can feel confusing, exhausting and isolating.

You may be stuck in a cycle of trying to "do better," only to find yourself back in the same pattern. Part of you may want things to change, while another part feels stuck, overwhelmed or unsure how.

You don't have to figure it out alone.

 

I offer eating disorder therapy support for people struggling with binge eating, emotional eating, food restrictions and body image concerns. I provide a supportive, confidential space where we can begin to understand your relationship with food, your body and yourself, with care, curiosity and compassion.

Eating Disorder Therapy: It's About More Than Food:

Eating disorders or disordered eating are rarely just about food. They are often connected to deeper emotional patterns, things like anxiety, control, self-worth and how you've learned to cope with difficult feelings or past experience.

This can show up as:

-  Binge eating or feeling out of control with food

- Restricting or rigid food rules

- Emotional eating or using food to soothe, numb or cope

- Ongoing body image distress

- Shame, self-criticism, or a strong inner critic

These patterns are not a personal failure. They are ways you have tried to cope, manage or protect yourself, sometimes for a long time.

A Trauma-Informed Approach to Eating Disorder Counselling

You might not call it "trauma," but you may recognize patterns like feeling easily overwhelmed, being hard on yourself, people-pleasing, or using food to regain a sense of control.

 

In our work together, we gently explore what may be beneath these eating patterns at a pace that feels safe and manageable.

Healing from eating disorder is not about willpower or control. It's about creating more awareness, compassion and choice from within.

What Healing Can Look Like

Our work may support you to:

- Feel less stuck in cycles of binging, restricting or emotional eating

- Respond to urges with more awareness and choice

- Reduce shame and self-criticism

- Feel more grounded and emotionally balanced

- Feel more at home in your body

Recovery is not about perfection. It happens step by step.

Our Work Together:

My approach is collaborative, relational and focused on healing at the roots, not just managing symptoms. I draw from therapies including:

- Attachment-based therapy

- Emotion-Focused Individual Therapy

- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

- Mindfulness practices

- Somatic Therapy

- Brainspotting (developed from EMDR)

This allows us to work with thoughts, behaviours, emotions, nervous system responses, not just symptoms.​​​

Over time, many people begin to feel less controlled by food or body thoughts, more trusting of themselves, more emotionally balanced or more open to connection and possibility.

Taking the Next Step

Reaching out can feel vulnerable, especially when it comes to your relationship with food and your body. ​It can also be a meaningful first step toward change.

 

If this resonates, you're welcome to book a free 15 -minute consultation or a full session.

You don't have to have it alll figured out before reaching out.

Karen Cook, MA, RCC

Virtual Counselling Langley Abbotsford & Across British Columbia

Virtual Counselling Calgary, Edmonton & Across Alberta

Counselling is online or by phone. We know you are busy and traffic is unpredictably long. You can enjoy meeting from the comfort of your own home, office, vehicle or a special place.

 

© 2009 - present by Karen Cook Counselling.

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