She recently completed her Ph.D. at the University of Calgary with a focus on collaborative approaches to eating disorder and obesity prevention in schools, and facilitates workshops provincially & nationally for educators and health care providers. She is a co-chair of the National Initiative for Eating Disorders, and the coordinator for Calgary’s 2017 Eating Disorder Awareness Week. She has a private counselling practice, Heart Centered Counselling, focused on treating eating disorders and trauma in youth and adults.