Naturopathic Doctor. Intensive Lifestyle and Weight Management.
As a Naturopathic Doctor I utilize a broad range of therapeutics, including the use of medication, nutrition, exercise, physical medicine, and more.
For patients who’s health would benefit from significant amounts of weight loss, I offer both pharmacological options as well as an intensive approach to lifestyle behaviour change.
The intensive weight management program is a bespoke, seamless experience that is different from other weight loss programs and medical weight management providers in that you get to work with me for all visits, you decide which strategy we take next and each visit naturally builds upon the last for as long as you like.
SERVICES & FEES
Individual or Group
Initial Assess
$185 – 60min session
This is where it all starts - with an unhurried assessment of past and current health, as well as discussion of what you are looking to accomplish.
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The initial assessment allows us to have as much shared knowledge as possible before you decide on your path forward. Are you taking medications? Let’s see if any of those cause weight gain. Do you have ambitious weight loss goals? Let’s talk science, and what you will be satisfied with. Have an injury? Let’s see that MRI report before next visit. Agreement on a treatment plan is usually left for 2nd or 3rd visits, when both of us feel informed, and you feel ready.
Return Visit
$120 – 45min session
This is the average return visit length, depending on your needs, visits may be shorter or longer. Visits are offered online and in person.
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Treatment plans are usually agreed upon at visit 2 or 3, after which return visits comprise largely of treatment, monitoring of response, occasional reassessment, counselling toward behaviour change, education, support, and more.
Intensive behavioural treatments start with longer visits and high frequency (weekly) and taper to shorter visits and low frequency (every 2-4 weeks).
Obesity Group - Weight Loss
$390 – 26 X 90min session
This is a 12-month, intensive, multi-modal psychological and behavioural group intervention for patients who’s health may benefit from >5% weight reduction.
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This is a closed group, with set start and end dates, so that members experience the stages of the program in parallel and have opportunities to build community.
Sessions will be roughly every 2 weeks for one year.
Group size - 10-20 .
This is an intensive lifestyle intervention in which participants are not only educated around exercise and nutrition basics, but are taught comprehensive behaviour change skills that help to mediate and adhere to lifestyle behaviours longer term.
*Group program fee does not include initial assessment.
Obesity Group - Maintenance
$195 – 12 X 90min session
This is a 12-month, multi-modal psychological and behavioural group intervention and support for patients with obesity who’s goal is to prevent weight regain.
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This is a closed group, with set start and end dates, so that members have opportunities to have parallel experiences and to build community.
Sessions will be once per month.
Group size - 10-20 .
This is ideally suited for the patient with obesity who has already lost significant body fat, and has the goal of preventing weight regain.
Obesity
Individual Program
$425/month – 9 months
This is a 9-month, intensive, multi-modal, psychological and behavioural intervention for patients who’s health may benefit from 5-25% weight reduction.
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This 9-12 month, one-on-one delivered program is an estimated 26 sessions that are an average of 60 minutes in length each.
While patients are provided the option of using obesity medication and/ or obesity meal replacements as part of this program, the program itself should be considered an intensive pyschological and behavioural treatment for obesity. This means that evidence informed behaviour change strategies are used to mediate physical activity and nutrition behaviours. That’s fancy talk for, I do my best to mirror best science and “I’m not just making this stuff up”.Oh, and one last thing…if the treatment works for you, then the recommendation will likely be to continue this therapy long term - that’s just how it works, when you stop therapy, weight comes back. That said, therapy can be less intensive over time - let’s collaborate on a long term follow up schedule near the end of the program, sound good?
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