Brian Baumal

Aliva Psychotherapy
Toronto, Canada
We assess every patient that uses our services into three large groups: 1) Weight management, 2) Eating disorders 3) Food Addiction. We provide the relevant treatment based on the assessment. For Food Addiction and/or people exhibiting eating disorders AND Food Addiction, we use an abstinence-based approach, where we "sanely, intelligently, and compassionately" (so as to avoid "diet trauma"), remove suspected trigger foods. We monitor to ensure: 1) Instances of acute large eating episodes are reduced; 2) Food noise/cravings slowly go down to a manageable level over time.