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Kendra is here to help you repair your relationship with food, navigate trauma, and rebuild your sense of self-worth.
You're exhausted from negotiating with food and your body every day, and you want that relationship to finally feel like peace instead of a constant battle.
You feel the pressure to look, act, or show up a certain way, whether that pressure comes from diet culture, gender expectations, or figuring out who you are.
You're living with the aftermath of trauma: flashbacks, hypervigilance, a body that never quite stands down. You're ready for it to feel safe again.
You're exploring your gender or who you're attracted to, and want a therapist who truly gets it.
You're exhausted from negotiating with food and your body every day, and you want that relationship to finally feel like peace instead of a constant battle.
You feel the pressure to look, act, or show up a certain way, whether that pressure comes from diet culture, gender expectations, or figuring out who you are.
You're living with the aftermath of trauma: flashbacks, hypervigilance, a body that never quite stands down. You're ready for it to feel safe again.
You're exploring your gender or who you're attracted to, and want a therapist who truly gets it.
Kendra supports people healing from eating disorders, disordered eating, sexual trauma, and PTSD, especially when trauma has disrupted your sense of self and shown up as unhealthy eating habits or perfectionism. That might look like patterns that feel impossible to shake, like late-night snacking and bingeing you can't seem to talk yourself out of, or restricting so tightly that it feels like the only thing keeping you in control. Social media doesn't make it any easier, with constant comparisons and conflicting advice about what your body should look like or be doing. Kendra's focus isn't adding another set of rules. It's helping you figure out what actually feels good in your own body, and making changes that lead to a more balanced life. Kendra also supports clients who are still sorting through questions about their gender identity or who they're attracted to, helping you get to know yourself more honestly along the way.
Sessions with Kendra use guided reflection, creative strategies, hypnotherapy, and gentle humour to help you notice the connections between your behaviours, emotions, and thoughts. Hypnotherapy is a big part of that work, connecting you with your subconscious to shift the automatic patterns that keep disordered eating and trauma responses running on autopilot. It's an approach Kendra trusts because she's experienced its benefits firsthand, using hypnotherapy in her own life for anxiety, pain, relaxation, and even allergies. Kendra also brings a feminist lens to her work, believing that so much of the pressure we feel around food and our bodies isn't personal, it's cultural: your worth was never supposed to come from how you look or how well you fit a certain mould. She's passionate about helping you untangle your sense of self from diet culture and narrow expectations, so you can define wellbeing on your own terms instead of by a number or a size.
Outside the therapy room, Kendra is an adventurer at heart who loves getting lost in new places, diving into a good book, and seeking the best Pad Thai yet. She's an animal lover with experience as a veterinary assistant, and wildlife rehabilitator in Costa Rica, and these days she fosters the stray animals that always seem to find her. In her own life and in her work with clients, Kendra is dedicated to helping you rediscover your true self.
Master of Social Work with a Specialization in Gender & Women's Studies, Lakehead University (2021)
Bachelor of Social Work, Lakehead University (2020)
Bachelor of Science in Animal Biology & Minor in Nutrition & Nutraceutical Sciences, University of Guelph (2018)
Clinical Hypnosis for Clients and Groups (University of Toronto)
ARFID for Primary Healthcare Providers (Change Creates Change)
CBT-E: Enhanced CBT for Eating Disorders (CBT-E, Oxford)
CBT-T: CBT for Trauma (Wilfred Laurier University)
Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers
Ontario Association of Social Workers
National Guild of Hypnotists