This Making Changes: CBT Eating Disorder Group is a structured, skills-based therapy group grounded in  Enhanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for eating disorders (CBT-ED). The group supports individuals in understanding and changing the thoughts, emotions, and behaviours that maintain eating disorder symptoms. Participants learn practical tools to normalize eating patterns, reduce disordered behaviours, challenge unhelpful beliefs related to food, weight, and shape, and develop healthier coping strategies. Delivered in a supportive group environment, the program helps strengthen insight, build skills, and support ongoing recovery.

This Making Changes: Body Image Group is a therapeutic, skills-based group designed to support individuals with eating disorders who are struggling with body image concerns and have previously completed some form of eating disorder therapy. The group aims to assist in avoiding relapse for our patients.  The group also focuses on improving participants’ relationship with their bodies rather than changing appearance or weight. Through evidence-based strategies, participants learn to reduce body checking and avoidance, challenge unhelpful body-related thoughts, build self-compassion, and increase body respect and acceptance. In a supportive group setting, individuals develop practical tools to manage body image distress and strengthen their recovery.

The Making Changes Group is a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) treatment group designed to reduce intensity and frequency of binge eating episodes, promote physical activity, normalize eating and increase interpersonal skills. Individuals with binge eating disorder typically experience common themes involving emotions, thoughts and behaviours. Each emotion has a consequent need. When these emotions are difficult to manage, individuals often turn to avoidant mechanisms or reassurance mechanisms to cope, distract, or numb. Binge eating becomes a method of numbing or avoiding these negative emotions.

The team utilizes and follows the Making Changes groups with mannuals designed by Dr. Michelle Laliberte, Ph.D., C.Psych – Clinical Lead with St. Joseph’s Healthcare Eating Disorders Program, Hamilton, Ontario.