Twenty-six Ontario universities and colleges, grouped by region, with the name of the counselling or wellness service, whether the institution says a dietitian is available, any eating disorder programming it names, and the plain words of how a student books. No form, nothing to buy.
This is a free public resource. Students are one of the groups most affected by eating disorders and one of the hardest to give a straight answer to, because campus support is scattered across counselling services, medical clinics, health promotion offices and dining services, and no two Ontario institutions organise it the same way. There is no single verified list of what Ontario campuses actually offer. This is an attempt at one.
For each institution it gives the name of the counselling or student wellness service, what that service is in the institution's own words, whether the institution says a Registered Dietitian or nutrition service is available to students, any eating disorder specific programming or referral pathway it names, and the plain words of how a student actually gets in. Where an institution's site does not say something, this page says so plainly rather than filling the gap.
On most of these entries the honest answer to "is there a dietitian" is that the institution's website does not say. That is worth reading carefully. It does not mean there is no dietitian. It means a student sitting at a laptop at 2am cannot find out, which is its own kind of problem. A campus that does not publish a nutrition service may still have one through its medical clinic, and a campus that does publish one may scope it narrowly. The only way to know is to ask the service directly.
Lauren Hofstee is a Registered Dietitian with the College of Dietitians of Ontario, working in private practice. She is not affiliated with any institution on this page, is not employed by any of them, receives nothing from any of them, and cannot get anyone in anywhere. Her practice is separate, private and virtual across Ontario. This page is meant to be useful to a student who will never contact her, and to the campus staff who field these questions all year.
Every fact below was read off the institution's own website on 2026-08-04, and each entry links to the exact page it came from. Nothing was taken from a directory, an aggregator, a news article or memory. Fees are not listed. Wait times are not listed as figures, because a page like this cannot keep them current and a wrong number is worse than none. Where an institution's own page could not be read, or did not state the facts, the institution was left out, and the reason is recorded further down.
Every institution below was checked against its own official page on 2026-08-04. Campus services are reorganised often and booking systems change without notice, so confirm directly with the service before you rely on anything here.
Universities and colleges across Toronto, Peel, York and Durham regions. This is where the most explicit campus eating disorder provision in the province was found.
Waterloo Region, Guelph, London and Windsor. Two of the clearest published nutrition pathways in the province are here.
Hamilton, Niagara and Peterborough.
Ottawa and Kingston.
Thunder Bay, Sudbury, North Bay and Sault Ste. Marie, often serving students across long distances.
Eight institutions on the original target list are not above. Each one was attempted on 2026-08-04 and each is excluded for a stated reason, because a verified list of twenty-six is worth more than a guessed list of thirty-four.
Brock University, George Brown College and Confederation College all returned an access-denied response to every attempt to read their own public pages on that date. Nothing about their services could be verified, so nothing is claimed. The University of Ottawa and Western University both served health and wellness pages whose service content did not appear in readable text, leaving no service description, nutrition answer or access route to quote. Seneca Polytechnic's counselling page describes its tiers of support but does not state how a student books, so the most important field on this page could not be filled. St. Lawrence College's wellness page did not state a service description or a general access route. No live official health or counselling page could be located for Loyalist College.
If you work at one of these institutions and your service is published somewhere this missed, please write in and it will be added on the same terms as everything else, quoted from your own page and dated.
Campus counselling and health services are genuinely useful and, for most students, free at the point of use. They can assess, they can monitor, they can treat, and critically they can refer. A campus physician or nurse practitioner is very often the fastest route into a hospital eating disorder program, because most of those programs require exactly that referral. If you are a student and you are not sure where to start, the campus service listed for your institution is a reasonable first door.
What they generally cannot do is be everything. Most run short-term or single-session models, most are busy, and as this page shows, most do not publish a dietitian. Nutrition is often the part of eating disorder recovery that campus services are least resourced for, which is why students so often end up looking outside for it.
If what you need is a publicly funded hospital program rather than a campus service, those are listed separately and in the same verified, dated way on publicly funded eating disorder programs in Ontario, with the ages each one serves and the referral route. If you are campus staff, a wellness coordinator, a student union officer or a residence don rather than a student, there is a page for you at information for campuses. Community groups and help lines that answer without a referral are on eating disorder support across Ontario.
Lauren Hofstee works with students virtually across Ontario, and no referral is needed. You can book a free introductory call here.
No. Of the 26 institutions on this page, a minority state on their own websites that a Registered Dietitian or nutrition service is available to students. Most say nothing either way. That is recorded plainly on each entry rather than guessed at. A campus that does not publish a dietitian may still have one, and a campus that publishes one may scope it narrowly, so ask the service directly.
Start with the counselling or wellness service listed for your institution anyway. Campus health services can assess, monitor and refer, and a campus physician or nurse practitioner is often the route to both a hospital program and a dietitian. Ontario's publicly funded hospital eating disorder programs are listed on a separate page on this site, and provincial help lines answer without a referral.
It depends on the institution and this page records what each one states. The University of Waterloo states that a referral from a Campus Wellness physician or nurse practitioner is needed to see its registered dietitian. The University of Toronto states that a student books with a health professional who may then refer to one of its dietitians. Where an institution does not state its route, that is recorded as not stated.
Yes. Using a campus counselling or health service does not stop you doing anything else, and the two are not in competition. A private practice dietitian works on the food and eating side and can coordinate with a campus service or a physician with your consent. A private dietitian cannot admit you to hospital, medically clear you, or replace a hospital program if that is the level of care needed.
Because an entry is only published if the fact came from the institution's own website on the date of checking. Brock University, George Brown College and Confederation College blocked automated access to their own pages on 2026-08-04. The University of Ottawa, Western University, Seneca Polytechnic and St. Lawrence College served pages that did not state a service description or an access route in readable text. No live official health or counselling page was located for Loyalist College. Those institutions were left out rather than guessed at.
Every institution was checked against its own official page on 2026-08-04. Campus services are reorganised often, booking systems change, and staff come and go, so confirm directly with the service before you rely on anything here. If you find something out of date, please write in and it will be corrected.
Last checked 2026-08-04. Each institution on this page was checked against its own official website on that date. Service names, nutrition answers, eating disorder programming and access routes are quoted or paraphrased from the institution's own page, and nothing has been added that the institution does not state itself. Where a site is silent, this page says the site does not say. Fees are not listed, and wait times are not listed as figures. Institutions that could not be verified from their own page that day were left out rather than guessed at, and the reasons are given above.
If you work at one of these institutions and something here is wrong, out of date, or framed in a way you would not choose, please write to laurenhofstee.rd@gmail.com and it will be corrected. Corrections are welcome from anyone.
If a situation is urgent or medically unstable, contact your local emergency service or call or text 9-8-8. This page is information, not medical advice, and it is not a substitute for assessment by a clinician.
Lauren Hofstee is a Registered Dietitian with the College of Dietitians of Ontario, offering virtual, non-diet nutrition counselling across Ontario. She works with students, no referral is needed, and the introductory call is free. Her practice is separate from every institution on this page and is one option alongside campus services, not a replacement for them.
Book a free intro callLooking for publicly funded hospital programs? See publicly funded eating disorder programs in Ontario. Campus staff? See information for campuses.