Non-diet virtual dietitian care for Listowel and North Perth, with Lauren Hofstee, RD. Eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, body image, binge eating, and food anxiety support, all online.
Book a free intro callListowel is the largest community in North Perth, a farming town at the top of Perth County well north of Stratford and London. Being in Perth County places it inside London's regional adult eating disorder catchment, but the distance to London is real, and the referral requirement is a hurdle of its own. I work with people across Listowel by secure video.
Lauren is based in Guelph and Toronto and works virtually across Ontario. That means people in Listowel 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 Listowel. 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 Listowel 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 Listowel and nearby communities including Atwood, Palmerston, Milverton, and Mount Forest, as well as people right across Ontario. From town out across the North Perth farmland, distance stops being the barrier 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.
Listowel sits in Perth County, which is inside the catchment of the Adult Eating Disorders Service at London Health Sciences Centre. On paper that means access to a strong program treating anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, and related diagnoses.
In practice, North Perth is a long drive from London, and the service also requires a physician referral with recent bloodwork and imaging before anything begins. Weekly travel to the city from a town this far north is a heavy ask, and young people are pointed to London's children's hospital instead.
For a Listowel adult whose difficulty is binge eating, chronic dieting, food anxiety, or body image, the combination of distance and referral can be enough to stop them reaching out at all.
A dietitian removes both barriers. Sessions happen by secure video from home in Listowel, there is no referral and no age cap, and the approach is non-diet and weight-inclusive across the full range of eating concerns.
If you do enter the London program, a dietitian can work alongside it toward the same goals. If the drive and the paperwork have been holding you back, this is somewhere to begin now.
None of it comes with judgment, and you do not need a referral to begin. Lauren Hofstee is a Registered Dietitian with the College of Dietitians of Ontario, registration number 15869. You can also read what you can do while you wait for a program.
Yes. Every session with Lauren is virtual, so you can meet from anywhere in Listowel or North Perth 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 Listowel find their way to first. No plans, no rules, just honest thinking about food and body.
Practical, gentle support you can start on now if you are stuck on a waitlist for a hospital program.
The honest answer, and what the research and experience say about care by video.
A plain walk through the care pathways in Ontario and where a dietitian fits among them.
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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