Courtenay Vickers, RD
Registered Dietitian • Certified Eating Disorders Specialist
Courtenay Vickers, RD
Registered Dietitian, Certified Eating Disorders Specialist
Courtenay Vickers is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Eating Disorders Specialist, and a member of the nutrition team within the Evolve Therapy Program. She brings an easygoing, compassionate approach to nutrition, helping members step away from the stress, rules, and self-judgment that can accumulate around food and begin building a way of eating that feels more balanced, flexible, and sustainable.
Courtenay understands that everyone arrives at eFIT with a history around food. For some people, that history includes an eating disorder or years of disordered eating. For others, it may involve repeated dieting, emotional eating, body dissatisfaction, confusing nutrition advice, rigid food rules, or simply feeling as though eating has become much more complicated than it should be.
One of Courtenay's first roles within the Evolve Therapy Program is therefore to understand that history.
As members begin the program, Courtenay meets with them individually to explore their past and current relationship with food and their bodies. Together, they consider eating patterns, previous experiences with dieting or nutrition treatment, areas of concern, and what the member would like their relationship with food to become. From there, Courtenay helps chart a path forward through the nutrition component of the Evolve Therapy Program that reflects the individual rather than imposing a predetermined way of eating.
Her approach is grounded in weight-inclusive care and intuitive eating principles. Instead of adding another set of external rules, Courtenay helps members gradually reconnect with internal cues such as hunger, fullness, satisfaction, energy, and preference while developing a more flexible understanding of what balanced nourishment can look like. The goal is not perfect eating. It is helping food occupy an appropriate place in life without requiring constant monitoring, guilt, compensation, or self-criticism.
Courtenay brings extensive eating-disorder expertise to this work. She is registered with the College of Dietitians of Ontario and is a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist. Her clinical experience includes supporting adults with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, disordered eating, and significant body image concerns. Her work is trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, and grounded in a weight-inclusive approach to nutrition.
That specialized background is valuable even for members who have never experienced an eating disorder. Many people have absorbed powerful messages about which foods are good or bad, what their bodies should look like, how much they should eat, or what it means about them when they struggle to follow those rules. Courtenay understands how easily attempts to pursue health can become entangled with shame, fear, restriction, perfectionism, or dissatisfaction with the body. She helps members separate supportive nutrition from those pressures.
Within the Evolve Therapy Program, Courtenay co-facilitates the Eat! Nutrition Series alongside the broader nutrition and psychology team. Eat! helps members build practical nutrition knowledge while examining the beliefs and patterns that influence how they actually eat. Courtenay brings her relaxed and approachable manner into these conversations, creating room to ask questions, challenge nutrition myths, experiment with greater flexibility, and develop a relationship with food that feels less adversarial.
Her work also fits within the broader integrated philosophy of the Evolve Therapy Program. Relationships with food and the body do not develop in isolation. Eating can become connected to emotion, stress, trauma, self-worth, control, relationships, and body image. By working within the integrated Evolve Therapy Team, Courtenay can help members address nutrition while the psychological and emotional experiences surrounding it are being supported elsewhere in their care.
Ultimately, Courtenay wants food to become less stressful, not more. Her work helps members move away from rigid external expectations and toward greater knowledge, flexibility, food freedom, intuitive eating, and trust in their own bodies.