Joan D., Public Health Nurse Manager,Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I choose to work with Andrea because I felt an alignment with her description of her weight challenges with my own struggle with weight. My challenges were around learning to take responsibility for food decisions and being an active participant throughout the process of planning, selecting, and preparing my foods. I really appreciated how well Andrea listened and was able to reflect key issues I was expressing. While working together, I learned at a new level how my “holding onto” my weight can be connected to my needs outside of food. I also was finally able to make a decision to move to a location where I will be happier living, with more space and in the country. And I was also able to decide to change my job level so that I can better balance my life. Andrea’s calm, accepting, and open approach was a very good fit for me. Our conversations helped me explore some large issues. I thought the conversations would be more about “food,” but learned that the primary issues need to be really named and then addressed right along side the learning about nutritional food needs. Thank you, Andrea, for support on this part of my journey!