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Metrowest Nutrition and Therapy Groups

Our Group Offerings

Group support can be a powerful part of the healing process, offering connection, understanding, and a sense of not being alone. In a group setting, you have the opportunity to share experiences, learn from others, and receive encouragement from peers who truly “get it.” This shared space often helps reduce shame, build insight, and foster accountability in a way that individual work alone may not.

Our groups are thoughtfully facilitated by experienced clinicians who provide guidance, structure, and tools to support your recovery. Together, we create a safe, compassionate environment where you can explore challenges, celebrate progress, and practice new skills in real time.

Below are the groups currently being offered. To express interest and schedule a screening call, click on the appropriate link or reach out to our Group Coordinator.

Heal from compulsive exercise

iMove Group

This group is for adults struggling with compulsive exercise who want to start healing in community with others

The iMove virtual group is for individuals struggling with compulsive exercise. Join others in a 6-week group to work on healing your relationship with exercise. Combining elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Polyvagal Theory, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Education and Experiential Learning, the iMove Group provides a structured roadmap to help you move from a disordered relationship with exercise to an empowered and embodied one that can be a resource in your eating disorder recovery.

Details about the group:

Who? Adults ages 18+ of all genders

When? 6 consecutive Wednesdays 7-8:30 PM April 15th – May 27th (excluding 4/22)

How much?  $390 (one or two payment option, equity pricing available)

Where? Zoom (we ask participants to have cameras on)

How Many? 6-10 adults

About the Facilitator

Amy Gardner, MS, RD, CEDS, RYT

Amy is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, yoga teacher and the owner of our practice.  She brings 23+ years of experience across all levels of eating disorder care. Amy created the iMove® program, based on her book iMove, to help clients heal from compulsive exercise.

With a strong background in psychology, Amy integrates mindfulness, breathwork, and meditation into her work, drawing from MBSR and MB-EAT training at UMass Medical Center. She also incorporates sensory integration and is certified in the SMART method for treating children with trauma.

What past participants are saying…

“The iMove Group has impacted my recovery in countless ways and was truly the missing link in bridging the gap between highly structured eating disorder treatment and the grey realities of daily life. First and foremost, the iMove Group quickly challenged my rigidity, my all or nothing thinking, and my low tolerance for a middle ground..”

“I loved the values work around exercise, which prompted a lot of great reflection on my end and has stuck with me the most in my day-to-day decisions around exercise. I also enjoyed learning about polyvagal theory and sensory input and brainstorming other ways to meet the needs of my nervous system. I also found peer-lead support and discussion to be some of the best moments of the group overall as we were able to find relief in feeling seen and understood for something that feels shameful/distressing.”

“I found this to be a safe place to be uncomfortable”

Intuitive Eating Group

Find freedom and flexibility with food in community with other women

Intuitive eating offers a structured road map to help you move away from restrictive plans and yo-yo diets so you can finally feel peace in your relationship with food and in your body. Learning and practicing this model alongside women of all ages provides opportunity for deeper exploration and repair.

This group is co-facilitated by a licensed therapist and registered dietitian.  Changing your relationship with food is HARD work. Doing it with others helps. This group is for any adult who is ready to do some work on their relationship with food.  Individuals in eating disorder recovery are welcome provided they are at a stable point and open to this work.

This group is for you IF YOU:

1. Don’t trust your body to guide your food choices
2. Feel defeated over past failed diets/plans
3. Experience shame or guilt around food
4. Feel out of control with food
5. Are uncomfortable in situations around food
6. Have discomfort (physical/emotional) with your body
7. Feel isolated in your intuitive eating journey
8. Limit activities/ put life off because of your body
9. Feel preoccupied with food, weight and diet
10. Are over diets and done feeling this way!

Details about the Group

Time: Every Other Wednesday Evening 6-7:300pm (6 sessions)

Group Dates:  TBD (Fall 2026)

Location: Zoom

Facilitators: Samantha Millette, LICSW and Laura Foresta, RD, LDN

Cost:  $390 for 6 sessions (one or two payment options and equity pricing available)

How Many? 6-10 participants ages 18+

Community for fat folx

Finding Fat Joy

This group is dedicated to creating a space where fat individual can be seen, heard, and celebrated. 

This is a virtual peer support group for people in fat bodies.  An opportunity for people of all ages and gender identities to come together in supportive community to share the their experience of living in a fat body, in a culture that idealizes thinness. Peer support creates space for people to share their challenges and support one another. In this group we do not fixate on hating or changing the body. Rather, it’s a space to move through those experiences in community and ultimately make more space for joy.

Details about the group:

Who? Adults ages 18+ of all genders

When? Every other Wednesday 7-8:30 EST starting April 29th (4/29, 5/13, 5/27, 6/10, 6/24, 7/8)

How much?  $390 (one or two payment option, equity pricing available)

Where? Zoom (we ask participants to have cameras on)

How Many? 6-10 adults

About the Facilitators

Megan Gamerman, MS, LDN

Megan is a and fat-positive dietitian with extensive eating disorder experience and helping individuals heal from the harms of weight stigma. She practices from a weight-inclusive lens and is deeply committed to creating a space where clients feel respected, affirmed, and understood.

Samantha Millette, LICSW

Sam is a licensed independent social worker with extensive experience with eating disorders and trauma. She is passionate about challenging the oppressive influences of fat phobia and diet culture across the healthcare system.

As a fat providers, Megan and Sam aim to provide space for individuals to explore the impact of cultural messages and experiences on self-worth and identity.

What past participants are saying…

“I’ve been in shared space with people who share other identities of mine but never in fat space.  It was really profound to be able to talk about the highs and the lows with other people who really ’got it.’  It has helped me realize that fat is just another of my identities, it doesn’t have to be a site of grief.” 

Fat Joy made a great impact on me. I am more comfortable in my body. The sense of community in the group is unmatched. I felt very seen and connected.”

“I was very reluctant to become part of [this group]…..each session I was able to be more loving and accepting of myself.That my lived experience was echoed in the lives of the other participants and facilitators. I gained so much wisdom and strength…”