Dietitian Services in Ottawa
Dietitian Services
At Anchor, our dietitians believe in providing a warm, accepting, and collaborative environment to explore your nutritional needs. They are committed to providing safe, inclusive, Health at Every Size (HAES) treatment. They empower individuals, caregivers, and families with knowledge and skills to meet their treatment goals and transform their relationships with food and bodies. They offer a wide range of services to meet your needs including individual, parent, family, and group therapy and workshops.
Support Individuals to Have a Healthy Relationship with Food and their Bodies
The many conflicting messages about food, body shape and size can leave us with difficult and painful relationships with eating and our bodies. At Anchor, our registered dietitians have a passion for empowering individuals and families with knowledge and skills to transform their relationships with food and bodies. With a combination of strategies including busting nutrition myths, adopting a HAES approach, building compassion, meal plans, and learning intuitive eating, our dietitians will tailor your treatment plan to meet your unique goals.
Pediatric Feeding Challenges
At Anchor our registered dietitians understand the stress and fear that pediatric feeding challenges create. With a warm, collaborative, evidence-based approach, our dietitians will create a unique treatment plan in conjunction with other health care professionals who may be involved in your child’s care to meet your child’s needs. They will support parents and caregivers through the what, why, when, and how of nourishing a child with feeding challenges.
They will also work directly with the child when appropriate to support the treatment plan. With a HAES approach and extensive experience in eating disorders our dietitians will ensure that the treatment for your child’s pediatric feeding challenges minimizes the risk of later developing disordered eating, an eating disorder or body image dissatisfaction.
Health Conditions – Dietetic Support
When you have been diagnosed with a health condition, you may need to change your eating to meet your body’s new needs. Our registered dietitians can provide evidence-based body inclusive (HAES) dietetic treatment to support your new nutritional needs. They will work collaboratively with you and your treatment team to find a creative, sustainable, and evidence based nutritional plan to match your unique needs and lifestyle.
Eating Disorders, Disordered Eating, & Selective Eating
Our registered dietitians are passionate about and have extensive experience in treating eating disorders, disordered eating, and selective eating. Please click this link to Eating Disorder Services at Anchor for more information.
Feeding your Family
Feeding your family is an important and oftentimes confusing and stressful job. Our registered dietitians have a passion for empowering parents and caregivers to create a healthy non-diet approach to eating and bodies that will help all family members thrive. They will design an individualized treatment plan to meet your family’s unique goals. Through education and skills they can support you with meal planning for your family’s needs and lifestyle, grocery shopping tips and tricks, understanding the different development needs of each family member, encouraging kids to eat healthy, building healthy and positive relationships to food that will last a lifetime, and fostering strong family bonds through food and nutrition. If you are looking to create a supportive and healthy environment at home and empower your child(ren) with a positive foundation for lifelong wellness, they can help support this goal.
Pregnancy and Post-Partum
Expecting a baby is an exciting journey, but it can also bring up many questions and concerns, especially about nutrition. Our dietitians will work with you in a non-diet, body inclusive, Health at Every Size (HAES) approach to help ensure a nutritionally healthy, happy, and safe pregnancy. They will support you to navigate any health conditions that you may have during pregnancy and post-partum. They will provide up to date evidence-based information and help you embrace a non-diet, weight-inclusive approach to pregnancy. They will support you with knowledge about: the importance of nutrition during pregnancy; essential nutrients for you and your baby; understanding how to meet your changing nutritional needs; and how to maintain healthy eating habits and food safety. With their extensive experience in eating disorders, they can support individuals with an active eating disorder or a history of an eating disorder to help them have a safe and healthy pregnancy.
Once your baby has arrived, our registered dietitians can support you in navigating the new and ever changing nutritional needs of the post-partum period. They will guide you through nutritionally supporting post-partum recovery for your body, and ensuring adequate nutrition for your mood, sleep, and overall well-being. Furthermore, they can provide individualized support for you if you are breastfeeding, if your baby has sensitivities to food, or with any other nutritional goals.