I am Sarah Cushing, a Registered Psychotherapist working with eating disorders, body image, and trauma. If food, your body, or an old wound has been running the day, therapy here is unhurried, relational, and built around what you are actually living.
You do not need to have everything figured out before reaching out.
Sarah Cushing
Registered Psychotherapist · CRPO #15706
Eating, exercise, or how you see your body takes up most of the day.
Anxiety, grief, or shame sits underneath everything and never quite lifts.
You are the steady one for everyone else, and quietly running on empty.
Something ended (a relationship, a role, an identity) and you are not sure who you are now.
None of this means something is wrong with you. It usually means you have coped well, for a long time, with more than you should have had to carry alone.
Therapy will not hand you a different life. It can change how you live the one you have.
Clients often describe more room between feeling and reaction, less fighting with themselves, and a clearer sense of what they want next. You set the pace.
Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, OSFED, chronic dieting, compulsive exercise, and body image distress. Grounded in CBT-E, somatic work, and EMDR, with attention to what these patterns have been protecting.
Eating disorder therapy in Ottawa →Old wounds, complex trauma, anxiety, and patterns that keep repeating. Relational, IFS-informed parts work with EMDR available when it fits.
Trauma therapy in Ottawa →Endings, beginnings, and the disoriented middle: career shifts, relationships, identity, grief, and questions of meaning.
The psychotherapy part of KAP: preparation, support, and integration, in collaboration with a licensed ketamine clinic whose medical prescriber assesses, prescribes, and monitors treatment.
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in Ontario →Non-judgmental support for making sense of a past or planned experience. No substances are provided, sourced, or used in these sessions.
You will not meet a blank screen. I am warm, engaged, and genuinely curious about what makes you you. We will laugh sometimes, sit with hard things other times, and you are allowed to arrive exactly as you are.
My background in anthropology and sociology means I pay close attention to the families, cultures, and systems that have shaped you. I bring training in EMDR, IFS-informed parts work, CBT-E, and somatic approaches, along with lived experience of food, body, and identity that informs, but does not define, my clinical work.
50-minute sessions are $170, usually weekly at the start. Most people find the first conversation easier than they feared.
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A short phone consultation, at no cost, to hear what brings you here and whether we are a fit.
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Early sessions are about getting to know you and building enough safety for the deeper work.
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We follow what surfaces: parts, memories, patterns, and what the body is doing with them.
If you are local and prefer to share a room, in-person sessions are held at 100 Centrepointe in Nepean/Ottawa.
Secure video sessions anywhere in Ontario. All you need is a private space and a stable connection.
50-minute sessions are $170. Many extended health plans in Ontario cover a Registered Psychotherapist, and I offer direct billing with some insurers, so ask and I will check your plan.
I offer both virtual sessions across Ontario and in-person sessions at 100 Centrepointe in Nepean/Ottawa. If you are local and prefer to meet in person, we can arrange that. Virtual sessions require a private, stable space and a reliable internet connection.
Sessions are typically 50 minutes. Weekly sessions are common at the start, though we may adjust frequency based on where you are in the process. Longer sessions can be arranged for KAP integration work when clinically appropriate.
Many extended health plans in Ontario cover services provided by a Registered Psychotherapist. Coverage varies by plan, so I recommend checking directly with your insurer. I do offer direct billing with some insurance companies and benefits packages, so please inquire and I can let you know whether direct billing is available for your specific plan.
KAP is a structured form of therapy that combines psychotherapy with ketamine, which is prescribed and monitored by an authorized medical prescriber at a licensed ketamine clinic. My role is the psychotherapy component: preparation, supported inner exploration, and integration. It is not suitable for everyone and requires medical screening and ongoing collaboration with the prescribing clinician.
Approach · July 14, 2026
Depth-oriented psychotherapy is slower, more relational, and less about symptom removal. Here is what the work looks like week to week.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy · June 21, 2026
What preparation, dosing-day support, and integration involve in KAP - and where the psychotherapist's role ends and the medical prescriber's begins.
Transitions · May 30, 2026
The in-between after a relationship, a role, or an identity ends is disorienting by design. A look at why liminal periods feel like fog - and how to move through them.
A brief phone call, at no cost, to talk about what you are looking for and whether working together feels right. You do not need to have everything figured out before reaching out.
