Non-diet virtual dietitian care for Dryden and the Kenora District, with Lauren Hofstee, RD. Eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, body image, binge eating, and food anxiety support, all online.
Book a free intro callDryden sits on Wabigoon Lake along the Trans-Canada Highway in northwestern Ontario, a small city between Thunder Bay and Kenora. Specialized eating disorder care in the northwest runs through Thunder Bay, hundreds of kilometres east, and the region's own service leans on virtual outreach because the distances are so vast. I work with people across Dryden by secure video.
Lauren is based in Guelph and Toronto and works virtually across Ontario. That means people in Dryden can access specialized nutrition counselling without travelling to a clinic, while still working with someone registered with the College of Dietitians of Ontario.
You may be looking for general nutrition advice, but many people land here because food has become louder than they want it to be. You might be dealing with restriction, binge eating, guilt after eating, fear foods, body checking, or feeling unsure whether your eating is serious enough to deserve support. It is enough to start a conversation.
What nutrition counselling can look like when recovery needs to feel steady, collaborative, and safe.
A gentle, private self-reflection tool if you are not sure what to call what is happening.
How private dietitian fees and extended health receipts usually work in Ontario.
Book a free, no-pressure intro call. We talk through what brought you here and what you are hoping for.
Sessions happen by secure video from wherever you are in Dryden. Nothing to prepare, nothing to weigh.
We work at your pace toward a calmer, steadier relationship with food and your body.
Every person who reaches out is met where they are. These are the main reasons people in Dryden and across Ontario look for this kind of care:
Nutrition support for anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, ARFID, orthorexia, and eating that feels frightening or out of control.
Compassionate, weight-inclusive care when food, exercise, rules, guilt, or body image have started to take over.
A non-diet approach to binge eating, emotional eating, and the restrict-binge cycle, without shame or more rules.
Gentle support for food anxiety, fear foods, avoidance, and the slow work of feeling safer around eating.
Help for chronic dieting, body checking, food guilt, and rebuilding trust with your body at a steadier pace.
Work with a Registered Dietitian online from anywhere in Ontario, with receipts for extended health reimbursement.
Because care is virtual, I work with clients in Dryden and nearby communities including Vermilion Bay, Eagle Lake, Wabigoon, and Oxdrift, as well as people right across Ontario. From town out to the smaller lake communities, distance stops being the obstacle when care is virtual. You do not need to live near a clinic to get thoughtful, registered dietitian support. You can also browse every Ontario city served.
For northwestern Ontario the specialized service is the Eating Disorders Program at St. Joseph's Care Group in Thunder Bay. It is an outpatient program for people who are medically stable, offering nutrition counselling, individual and family therapy, and education, and it requires a referral from a physician or nurse practitioner.
Thunder Bay is a long way from Dryden, hundreds of kilometres east on the highway. Tellingly, the region's own regional outreach program is delivered largely through virtual technology, because expecting people across the northwest to travel to Thunder Bay for weekly care is simply not realistic.
That tells you something honest about the North: specialized eating disorder care is scarce and far, and video is already the accepted way it reaches most people here.
A dietitian works the same practical way, brought to you at home. Sessions happen by secure video from Dryden, there is no referral and no age cap, and the approach is non-diet and weight-inclusive across binge eating, chronic dieting, food anxiety, body image, and eating disorder recovery.
If you are working with the Thunder Bay program, a dietitian can sit alongside it. If you are not, this is a place to start without a referral.
None of it comes with judgment, and there is no referral or waitlist standing in the way. Lauren Hofstee is a Registered Dietitian with the College of Dietitians of Ontario, registration number 15869. If it helps to read first, here is how virtual sessions work.
Yes. Every session with Lauren is virtual, so you can meet from anywhere in Dryden or the Kenora District by secure video. You get the same individual, professional care as an in-person visit, without the commute or waiting room.
No referral is needed. You can reach out directly to book a free, no-pressure introductory call. Physicians and other clinicians are also welcome to refer a patient through the online referral form.
Lauren supports people with eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, binge eating, restriction, chronic dieting, food anxiety, body image concerns, intuitive eating, digestion, energy, and general wellbeing. The approach is non-diet, weight-inclusive, and free of judgment.
Book a free intro call. It is a relaxed conversation to see if working together feels right, with nothing you need to prepare beforehand.
Some of the writing people in Dryden find their way to first. No plans, no rules, just honest thinking about food and body.
What online sessions actually feel like, and why they work as well as sitting in a clinic.
The honest answer, and what the research and experience say about care by video.
An honest look at the shape of recovery, so the road ahead feels a little less unknown.
Reaching out is often the hardest part. The intro call is free, and there is no pressure to continue.
Book a free intro callPrefer to talk? Call (226) 407-8455
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