Ontario therapists and counselling practices that state they treat eating disorders

What this page is, and what it is not

This is a free public resource and there is nothing on it to buy. It lists private practice therapists and counselling practices in Ontario that state, on their own website, that they work with eating disorders or disordered eating. That is the only thing every entry has in common.

Inclusion here is not an endorsement. Nobody has been assessed, ranked or recommended. There are no reviews, no ratings and no best of framing on this page, because a list like this has no honest way to produce them. Lauren Hofstee has no financial relationship with any practice listed. Nobody paid to be here, nobody can pay to be here, and there are no referral fees, commissions or reciprocal arrangements with any of them.

Every practice was found and read on its own website on 2026-08-06. Nothing came from Psychology Today, from a therapist directory, from an aggregator, or from memory. Where a practice's own page did not state a fact, that fact is not on this page, and it says so instead of guessing. Practices that could not be verified at all were left out, and the exclusions are printed further down rather than hidden.

Before anything else, check the register

In Ontario, psychotherapy is a controlled act. Several different regulated professions are authorised to perform it, each with its own protected title, its own college, and its own free public register that anyone can search. Knowing which is which is the single most useful thing you can learn before your first appointment.

Registered Psychotherapist is the protected title of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario. You can check a person's status yourself on the CRPO public register. You will also see Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), which is a real category of registration for someone who has met the entry requirements and is completing supervised practice hours.

Psychologist and Psychological Associate are the protected titles of the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario, and they are the professions that can give a formal diagnosis. You will normally see them written as C.Psych. Check them on the CPBAO public register.

Registered Social Worker is the protected title of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, usually written as RSW or MSW, RSW. Check it on the OCSWSSW online register.

Two entries on this page sit outside those three, honestly and legally. One clinician is a Registered Occupational Therapist practising psychotherapy within the scope of her own college, which you can check on the College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario public register. Another practice states that its sessions are delivered by master's level students under the supervision of a Registered Psychotherapist. Both facts are printed in their entries, because they change what you are booking.

Searching a register takes about a minute and it is free. Do it before the first appointment rather than after. It is not rude, and every regulated professional expects it.

How to read each entry

Each entry gives the practice, the regulated title it publishes, the city, whether it says it offers virtual sessions, what it says about eating disorders in its own words, whether it says it works alongside dietitians or a treatment team, how a person makes contact, and a link to the exact page it was checked against. Where a page does not state something, the entry says the page does not state it. That is not a gap in the research, it is the finding.

Fees are not on this page. Most of these practices do not publish them, and a list that guesses at money is worse than a list that says nothing. Where a practice does publish its fees, they are on the page linked in its entry. Wait times and availability are not published here at all, for the same reason.

Eating disorder care is a team, and the therapist is one seat at the table

Eating disorder treatment normally involves at least three things running at once: medical monitoring, nutrition, and therapy. A therapist working alone, with no medical oversight and no nutrition support, is not a full treatment plan for a person who is medically unstable. Some of the practices below say this out loud on their own pages, and where they do it is quoted in the entry, because it is the most useful thing on the page. One Ottawa practice publishes that it will ask for a recent medical examination before a first appointment. One Owen Sound practice publishes that severe symptoms may need day treatment or inpatient care first. Those are not warnings about those practices. They are signs of a practice that knows what it is doing.

If you are not sure how serious things are, that is a reason to be assessed, not a reason to wait.

What to ask on the first call

Four questions save weeks. Do you work with eating disorders specifically, or is it one area among many. Do you work with a dietitian and a physician, and will you talk to mine. What happens if I become medically unstable while I am seeing you. And what is your fee, and do you direct bill. A practice that answers all four calmly is telling you something useful.

If you want publicly funded care instead

Everything above is private practice, and in Ontario that normally means paying out of pocket or through extended health benefits. Publicly funded eating disorder treatment exists and it is free at the point of care. Those programs sit inside hospitals and the public system, they include a dietitian and medical monitoring as part of the team, and they are listed by region, with the ages each one takes and the referral route, on the publicly funded eating disorder programs in Ontario page.

If you want to talk to someone today, with no referral, no diagnosis and no fee, the community organisations and help lines are on the eating disorder support across Ontario page. If you are a student, campus health services are usually the fastest door in the province and they are listed on the Ontario campus eating disorder support page. If the piece you are missing is nutrition rather than therapy, the publicly funded places where you can see a Registered Dietitian at no charge are on the free dietitian care in Ontario page.

A note on this page's author

Lauren Hofstee is a Registered Dietitian with the College of Dietitians of Ontario, working in private practice. Her practice is separate from every practice listed here. She is not affiliated with any of them, receives nothing from any of them, and cannot get anyone in to any of them. She is a dietitian, not a therapist, and nothing on this page is an assessment of anyone's clinical work.

This page exists because the question comes up in almost every first call, and because the honest answer, that there was no checked list anywhere, was not good enough. Sessions in Lauren's own practice are virtual across Ontario, private, and paid out of pocket or through extended health benefits, and start with a free fifteen minute introductory call. If a public program or a therapist on this page is the better fit, take it.