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Cedar Tree Therapy

Specialized in providing therapy to people with anxiety, OCD and eating disorders.

11/14/2025

Can we talk about Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder? Living with ARFID can feel lonely and misunderstood. 💭

It’s not about being a “picky eater”. It’s about genuine fear and discomfort around food. For some, certain textures, smells, fear of choking or getting sick can trigger intense anxiety or panic. It's about rituals surrounding food that feel required to gain some sense of safety.

Many people with ARFID want to eat, to join in at family meals or social gatherings, but their bodies & minds put up barriers.

Healing from ARFID takes patience, compassion, and support that meets you where you are. 🌱

At Cedar Tree Therapy, we help clients explore their relationship with food at a pace that feels safe , one small step at a time.

11/10/2025

“I want to rest but I don’t know how to”
“All my hobbies involve physical activity”
“I can’t do mindfulness”
Enter: Embroidery with 🪡
Engaging in an activity that is intentionally slow and has no productive outcome attached to it can be especially healing to your nervous system ❤️

11/07/2025

Why it’s so hard to rest without guilt?
Your nervous system may associate rest with danger or shame, especially if you’ve always tied your worth to productivity.
Therapy helps you relearn what safety feels like, and bring to light your beliefs of productivity and your worthiness. Are you ready to dive in?

11/03/2025

Let me explain a bit about my specialization 🤓 While anxiety, OCD and eating disorders might seem like 3 very different things to receive therapy for, underneath the surface they are incredibly similar. They share a handful of qualities that often keeps their cycles going. I have a deep understanding of this sort of mind 🧠

If this sounds like you, I know you’ve been telling yourself you can handle it on your own for a while now. Although reaching out for help might be outside your comfort zone because you’ve always gotten through difficult things on your own, you shouldn’t have to. Send me an email, I can’t wait to hear from you!

10/31/2025

5 Signs Perfectionism Is Taking a Toll
✨ Constantly redoing tasks
✨ Avoiding things unless you can do them perfectly
✨ Feeling guilty for resting
✨ Overthinking small mistakes
✨ Needing control to feel safe
If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Perfectionism is often a form of anxiety in disguise.

10/28/2025

It’s natural to want to make our loved one’s worries go away and ease their anxiety … but with OCD this can often be contributing to the problem. Let’s talk about how you can help without feeding a reassurance seeking compulsion. Family members are an integral part of OCD treatment 🫶🏻

As OCD awareness month comes to a close, please know you are not alone in your OCD and recovery is possible 💚

10/24/2025

If you’ve never been to therapy before, it’s normal to feel nervous. The first session is about getting to know you. Your story, your goals, and what support feels like for you.
You don’t need to have the perfect words, just a willingness to show up.

The Cedar Tree Therapy Mental Health Blog has a post the dives deeper into what to expect in your first session. Take a read through, it might give you the reassurance and confidence you need. The link to this blog post can be found in the Blog Post Links Highlight.

10/20/2025

We want to build intuitive eaters that listen to their body, that eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. This doesn’t happen when we encourage from a young age eating based on certain rules and not their body’s cues. Offer some gentle,non judgemental questions to allow them to tune into their body. “How did that candy make you feel ?” This can help our children learn self regulation and build a positive relationship with food without judgement.

If just the thought of not controlling your children’s Halloween candy makes you uncomfortable, I ask you to reflect on your own relationship with food and the narrative about candy you’ve been taught. Are you an intuitive eater ? Or do you rely on food rules to keep yourself “controlled” ?

10/03/2025

Virtual sessions are here to stay!
I'm finding many clients have a preference for in person sessions, however virtual sessions are great if you are short on time and don't want to add a commute to the office to your day, or if you live outside of the Durham Region but still want specialized treatment for OCD or an Eating Disorder.

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28 Princess Street
Whitby, ON
L1M1B2

Website

http://www.cedartreetherapy.com/

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