Non-diet virtual dietitian care for Petawawa and the Upper Ottawa Valley, with Lauren Hofstee, RD. Eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, body image, binge eating, and food anxiety support, all online.
Book a free intro callPetawawa is a military town at its core, home to Garrison Petawawa, one of the largest army bases in the country, set in the Upper Ottawa Valley between Pembroke and Deep River. Base life means postings, deployments, and moves, and health care that keeps restarting every time a family relocates. I work with people across the valley by secure video, so support can follow you rather than resetting.
Lauren is based in Guelph and Toronto and works virtually across Ontario. That means people in Petawawa 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 Petawawa. 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 Petawawa 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 Petawawa and nearby communities including Pembroke, Deep River, and the garrison community, as well as people right across Ontario. You do not need to live near a clinic to get thoughtful, registered dietitian support. You can also browse every Ontario city served.
In a garrison community, continuity of care is genuinely hard. Families move on the military's schedule, sometimes across the country, and each move can mean a new doctor, a new waitlist, and starting the whole search over. For an eating disorder, where the relationship you build with a clinician is a large part of what helps, that repeated restart is costly.
Deployments and long training absences add their own pressure. Separation, changing schedules, and periods of high stress are exactly the conditions in which eating can slip into restriction, bingeing, or rigid control, whether it is the serving member or a partner and children at home who are affected.
Virtual care is well suited to this life. Because sessions are online and this practice serves all of Ontario, a posting within the province does not have to break your care, and you can keep working with the same dietitian through a move, a deployment, or a change in routine.
The approach is non-diet and weight-inclusive, which matters if fitness testing and weight standards have shaped a difficult relationship with food and the body. You can book directly without a referral and meet by secure video from home or from the base, at a time that fits the schedule.
Families here also carry a particular kind of pressure that outsiders miss. When one parent is deployed or away for training, the parent at home is holding everything, and children feel the absence in their own ways, sometimes through their eating. Support that stays constant through those cycles, that does not have to be re-explained to a new provider each time, gives a family one less thing to rebuild. You can start with a free intro call, from wherever you are posted in the province.
There is no judgment in any of it. Lauren Hofstee is a Registered Dietitian with the College of Dietitians of Ontario, registration number 15869. If it helps to see how it works, here is more on virtual nutrition counselling across Ontario.
Yes. Every session with Lauren is virtual, so you can meet from anywhere in Petawawa or the Upper Ottawa Valley 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 Petawawa find their way to first. No plans, no rules, just honest thinking about food and body.
You do not need a perfect plan or a fresh Monday. Here is how to actually begin intuitive eating, one small step at a time.
The two words get used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing in Canada. Here is the plain, non-judgmental explanation.
The honest answer is that you do not need to prepare much at all. But if it would settle your nerves, here is what actually helps.
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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