Skills Based Approaches
Our Skills-Based Approaches programs are designed to help you build practical tools for navigating emotions, managing urges, and supporting recovery.
Many people with eating disorders use disordered behaviours to cope with overwhelming or confusing feelings.
Whether you tend to shut down, feel out of control, or struggle to identify your emotions, these programs offer a structured, supportive space to build emotional awareness and regulation.
Drawing from evidence-based practices like Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), you’ll learn coping skills that promote stability, reduce distress, and strengthen your recovery.
Through guided exercises and real-life applications, we focus on shifting from reactive patterns to intentional responses. These skills not only support day-to-day resilience, but also lay the groundwork for long-term emotional and behavioural change.
SKILLS BASED APPROACHES
SPRING PROGRAMS
ALL PROGRAMS ARE FREE - NO DIAGNOSIS REQUIRED
DBT Group: Emotion Regulation
Facilitator: Keisha Kennedy MA, CCC
Date: Monday, May 4
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Location: Online
Capacity: 20
Open to: Canada wide
Learn practical tools to help you understand and manage emotions without turning to harmful coping strategies. You'll learn how emotions work, how to recognize them early, and how to build resilience and increase positive experiences.
DBT Group: Distress Tolerance
Facilitator: Keisha Kennedy MA, CCC
Date: Monday, May 11
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Location: Online
Capacity: 20
Open to: Canada wide
Introduction of DBT-based strategies for getting through painful emotional moments. You'll learn grounding techniques, distraction tools, and self-soothing practices to help you stay steady when emotions feel overwhelming.
DBT Group: Interpersonal Effectiveness
Facilitator: Keisha Kennedy MA, CCC
Date: Monday, May 25
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Location: Online
Capacity: 20
Open to: Canada wide
A focus on building healthy communication and relationship skills to support your recovery. You'll learn how to ask for support, set boundaries, and maintain self-respect in challenging interactions.
DBT Group: Mindfulness
Facilitator: Keisha Kennedy MA, CCC
Date: Monday, June 1
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Location: Online
Capacity: 20
Open to: Canada wide
Introduces mindfulness practices to help you reconnect with the present moment and your own experience. You'll learn to observe thoughts and emotions without judgment and respond to discomfort with greater awareness and compassion.
Weekly Lunch Meeting
Facilitator: Sarah Higgins RD / Jennie Mendoza RN
Date: : Wednesdays
April 15 - June 27
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Online
Capacity: Unlimited
Open to: AB, Sask, New Brunswick
Our new Weekly Lunch Meeting is a recurring online support group designed to help participants connect with others in recovery during mealtime. Because mealtimes can be especially challenging in recovery, this group offers a supportive space where people can share the experience with a sense of community, shared intention, and gentle conversation. Participants may use the time to work toward personal goals such as following through with regular nourishment, trying a challenge food, increasing variety or volume, or practicing regulation with food present. The facilitator will eat alongside participants and guide light conversation and brief check-ins throughout the hour. There is no expectation to show food and no plate checking. Each participant sets their own goals and engages in the way that feels most supportive for them.
This is a drop-in style offering; however, participants must register once in order to receive the invite to join the online group.
OUR FACILITATORS
Keisha Kennedy
Registered Clinical Counsellor
Jennie Mendoza
Registered Nurse
Sarah Higgins
Registered Dietician
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