Nutrition Counselling with Registered Dietitians

In our weight management services, Dietitians trained in weight management will guide you with evidence-based strategies to manage Obesity, helping you create a realistic, and personalized nutrition plan. Your Dietitian will help you identify the root drivers of overeating patterns by utilizing their training from CBT, mindset coaching, emotional regulation, and binge eating treatment. You will learn tools and skills to sustain your new healthy habits for life!

What makes our weight loss program effective?

Your Dietitian will provide you with the guidance, knowledge, and coaching you need to adopt a non-diet approach to work towards sustained weight loss. 

You’ll learn

  • Optimal foods to support health, reduce hunger and cravings

  • How to enjoy the weight loss journey so it doesn’t feel like punishment

  • How to stay on track and consistent regardless of your schedule

  • How to recover from setbacks to stop self-sabotaging your weight loss journey

  • How to cope with stress at night instead of turning to food 

  • How to stop emotional eating

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Victoria Upshaw RD

Victoria is a Registered Dietitian with nearly 20 years of experience practicing in Ontario. Throughout her career, she has focused on chronic disease prevention and management, and also focuses on nutrition management in binge eating disorder treatment. She has training with CBT/DBT tools to facilitate her clients in doing the work while creating a supportive atmosphere. Victoria is dedicated to helping her clients find solutions that work for them and dismantles food rules that become barriers to lasting change. Victoria believes in the power of good nutrition while recognizing its place in the larger puzzle of health. She understands, as a busy mom of 4, how living in our fast-paced world can leave little time for self care. With a gentle style of counselling she helps challenge her clients to rethink and reimagine how they too can live the life they dream of.

Victoria’s Areas of Focus:

  • - Binge or compulsive eating patterns and the binge-and-restrict cycle

  • - Nutrition management while using obesity medications

  • - Chronic disease prevention and management (including diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol, metabolic liver diseases, high blood pressure, and PCOS)

  • - Digestive issues (including irritable bowel syndrome and chronic constipation)

  • - Women’s health (including pregnancy, post-pregnancy, lactation, and menopause)

Tedi Nikova RD MPH

Tedi is our Lead Dietitian, and practices in the areas of weight management, PCOS, menopause and women's health. She is dedicated to empowering her clients to reach their healthiest self while living their most fulfilling life. With a strong belief in a non-diet approach to weight management, Tedi focuses on sustainable, long-term habits rather than restrictive food rules.

Tedi's Areas of Focus:

  • - Sustainable weight loss 

  • - Women's health and nutrition management Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), Menopause, and Hypothyroidism)

  • - Nutrition management while taking obesity medications (Ozempic, Contrave, Saxenda, Wegovy, Mounjaro)

Ina Benkova RD MPH

Ina is a Registered Dietitian (RD) in Ontario, with an interest in emotional eating and binge eating disorder. She has additional training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT). Ina also focuses on Chronic Disease Management, and supports her clients in managing PCOS, Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors (including high cholesterol and high blood pressure). She creates a supportive space for men and women to overcome challenges, heal their relationship with food, and achieve lasting change.

Ina's Areas of Focus: 

  • - Binge or compulsive eating patterns and the binge-and-restrict cycle

  • - Emotional eating using CBT and DBT techniques

  • - Nutrition management while taking obesity medications (Ozempic, Contrave, Saxenda, Wegovy, Mounjaro)

  • - Chronic disease prevention and management (including diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol, and PCOS)

  • 1:1 Virtual Appointments that may be covered by your private health insurance

  • Support in-between session when you need it by email

  • Cognitive tools to address emotional eating, mindless snacking and binge eating

  • Build consistency, sustainability and resilience in your healthy lifestyle