Non-diet virtual dietitian care for Pickering and Durham Region, with Lauren Hofstee, RD. Eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, body image, binge eating, and food anxiety support, all online.
Book a free intro callPickering is a Durham lakeshore city on the western edge of the region, close enough to Toronto that many residents split their week between a downtown office and a desk at home. That in-between working life is exactly where a lot of people struggle to make room for eating disorder care. I see clients across Pickering online.
Lauren is based in Guelph and Toronto and works virtually across Ontario. That means people in Pickering 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 Pickering. 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 Pickering 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 Pickering and nearby communities including Ajax, Whitby, and the GTA, 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.
Pickering shares the regional reality that Durham has no specialized eating disorder program, so public treatment tends to mean Toronto and a commute that eats into an already stretched week. For hybrid workers splitting time between the city and home, fitting a fixed in-person appointment around a shifting schedule is genuinely awkward.
There is also the privacy question that home working raises. When your kitchen is also your break room, food and body can be present all day in a way an office never was, and yet finding a truly private hour for an appointment, away from partners, roommates or children, is not always simple. People end up choosing between convenience and confidentiality.
Virtual sessions are designed to give both. You meet by secure video on a schedule that bends around hybrid work, from wherever in your home feels private enough, with no trip into the city and no clinic waiting room close to where you live and work. If you are already on a hospital waitlist, this can run alongside it.
Hybrid and remote work has quietly reshaped a lot of people's eating. The fridge is always a few steps away, structure disappears without an office day to anchor it, and video calls put your own face in front of you for hours. For some people that has meant grazing all day, for others skipping meals until dinner. Part of the work is rebuilding a rhythm that fits how you actually live now, rather than importing rules that assume a nine to five somewhere else.
The work is calm, collaborative and non-diet, focused on steadying your relationship with food rather than adding rules to your day. Lauren Hofstee is a Registered Dietitian with the College of Dietitians of Ontario, registration number 15869, working across Ontario by video. Here is an honest overview of eating disorder support across Ontario if you want to compare paths.
Yes. Every session with Lauren is virtual, so you can meet from anywhere in Pickering or Durham Region 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 Pickering find their way to first. No plans, no rules, just honest thinking about food and body.
There is no bar you have to clear first. If food is taking up more room in your head than you want it to, that already counts.
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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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