Eating Disorder Therapy
in British Columbia
Helping women find freedom from
the constant battle with food and their bodies.
What brings women here
You may have tried various forms of support or therapy to heal your relationship to food and your body but something has still felt to be missing. You no longer engage in the unhealthy behaviours around food that you used to, but you still find that harsh voice beating you up in the back of your head.
Perhaps you have followed the protocols and restored your physical health, but still secretly hate your body and feel uncomfortable in your day-to-day life.
You might see similar patterns to those of your eating disorder now showing up in other areas of life: needing to feel in control, numbing out, or distracting to avoid painful or uncomfortable emotions.
You feel tied to a meal plan and a more mechanical way of eating, but long to feel the safety and peace in your body to be able to hear its cues and eat more freely without fearing relapse.
You may have gone through inpatient treatment programs, and while the eating disorder has eased, you feel the impact of such an intense treatment protocol and controlled environment, and can’t seem to feel like yourself again, even years after.
Perhaps you’ve tried hospital or community-based treatments for your eating disorder and felt that something was missing or never felt seen or safe enough to really trust that recovery could be for you.
You have always felt different, maybe questioned if something was wrong with you. You seemed to feel things more deeply than others, be more impacted by events or emotions than your peers.
Recovery is less about returning to who you were before, rather, remembering a level of peace and safety in your body, woven with an integration of all you have experienced.
True freedom from disordered eating is possible, a way of living that feels settled, alive, and entirely your own.
This is a space where modern care finds its old, human heart.
About Julia Webster, MCP, RCC
Therapist and Founder at Village Wellness
Hi, I’m Julia,
I’m a Registered Clinical Counsellor, endlessly passionate about the possibilities in creating a world lived from the heart.
My work is a true weaving of the practical and the subtle. In our work together, I always ensure a balance between exploration and insight, alongside practical strategies and tools to help you feel supported between our sessions.
The Four Foundations of My Work
1. Strengthening Your Inner Wisdom
I believe every person has an innate wisdom that remains present, even when an eating disorder and/or body image noise has become incredibly loud.
Together, we’ll work toward strengthening your connection to that deeper part of yourself by creating the conditions where it naturally begins to feel stronger and take up more space.
Over time, the eating disorder no longer has to be the loudest voice in the room because another part of you becomes increasingly capable of leading.
2. Helping Your Nervous System Feel Deeply Seen
Eating disorders are often far more than behaviours around food. Sometimes they become a language for experiences that never had words. Sometimes they carry emotions that once felt impossible to hold. Sometimes they protected you in ways nothing else could.
Rather than rushing to fix or eliminate those patterns, we’ll spend time becoming curious about what they have been communicating or protecting.
I believe our nervous systems often soften when experiences that have been carried alone are finally met with genuine acknowledgement, compassion, and understanding.
Sometimes the deepest healing isn’t found in having another explanation; rather, from finally feeling truly seen and witnessed in all that your system has been carrying.
When those experiences no longer have to be carried alone, your system can begin to exhale.
3. Balancing Depth with Practical Support
Insight alone rarely creates recovery.
At the same time, practical strategies without deeper healing often leave people feeling like they’re constantly managing symptoms rather than truly recovering.
My approach integrates both.
Alongside exploring the deeper roots of your relationship with food, your body, and yourself, we’ll also work on practical, tangible ways to support your recovery in everyday life.
Together we’ll navigate things like:
meals and nourishment
body image
urges and behaviours
perfectionism
relationships
boundaries
emotional regulation
returning to life outside of the eating disorder
The goal is to help you move beyond simply understanding to living life more fully and freely.
4. Walking Alongside You
Recovery asks an incredible amount of people.
I don’t believe meaningful support always fits neatly into fifty or sixty minutes once a week.
That’s why I strive to offer care that feels thoughtful, responsive, and individualized.
For some people, weekly therapy is exactly what’s needed.
Others benefit from more comprehensive support between sessions, which is why I also offer my Recovery Package for clients who would benefit from greater continuity throughout the week.
Whatever level of support is appropriate for you, my hope is that you feel like you have someone walking alongside you, not someone trying to fix you from a distance.
Additionally, my understanding of eating disorders is both personal and professional. For many years, I was at war with my body in nearly every way. The process of finding my own way forward to a truly peaceful relationship with my body and myself has shaped how I work with others, allowing me to see beyond textbooks and labels, and to help people return to a sense of home within themselves.
About Village Wellness
At Village Wellness, we believe care should be both intelligent and deeply human. We support mind, body, and soul as one interconnected, living system. Our bodies are not machines to be managed; rather they are part of nature itself.
We’re here for women seeking grounded, evidence-informed care that honours their biology, intuition, and autonomy. Real, relational support that helps you reconnect with your body’s own intelligence.
Because true wellness restores sovereignty: a remembering that we are all free to change our circumstances, our story, our life.
Once, care was woven into the rhythm of the village; shared, trusted, alive. Village Wellness exists to remember that way of being: where health and belonging meet, and where modern care finds its old, human heart.
Welcome to care that honours your biology, intuition, and autonomy.
Contact Us
You are welcome to reach out with any questions, wonderings, or thoughts about our offerings or what working together could look like. We look forward to hearing from you.