Current Group Offerings
Group support is so valuable in healing and growing. Find community and connection with peers and experienced clinicians as you navigate your recovery journey. Here are groups currently being offered. To express interest and set up a screening call, click on the applicable link below or reach out to our Group Coordinator.
Virtual iMove Group for Compulsive Exercise
Compulsive exercise is a common feature of many eating disorders. Contrast to beneficial exercise and healthy athleticism which is passion-driven, compulsive exercise is punishment-driven and leads to significant health consequences as the body’s limits (and even injuries) are ignored.
Often, exercise is lumped in with eating disorder behaviors and prohibited during eating disorder treatment. The iMove Method explores how healing the relationship with exercise can allow movement to be safely and beneficially incorporated in eating disorder recovery.
Is this Group Right For Me?
Do you …
- Wish exercise took up less space in your life?
- Plan your life around exercise?
- Feel like you can’t take a day off of exercise?
- Feel extremely anxious if you don’t get to exercise?
- Miss out on social events and/or other things you enjoy in order to exercise
- Use exercise as punishment (i.e. for eating “too much”)?
- Exercise through injury or despite incredible physical discomfort?
- Struggle to add movement back into your life because of how compulsive it was in the past?
- Wish you could enjoy movement?
- Feel unclear on how to navigate exercise during eating disorder recovery?
If you answered yes to many of these questions, this group is for you. This is a space where you can connect with others who also struggle (or have struggled) with compulsive exercise and want to find a way to integrate it into your life in a recover-aligned way.
What is the iMove Group?
The iMove groups provides a structured and supportive environment for participants to safely explore their relationship with exercise in community with others who also struggle with compulsive exercise. Groups meet weekly via zoom and are made up of 6-10 adult participants.
Integrating principles of polyvagal theory, mindfulness, sensory integration, yoga, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), groups combine education, experiential activities, self-reflection and group process to help individuals move from a disordered relationship with exercise to an embodied one.
Amy Gardner is a certified eating disorder specialist, registered dietitian and yoga teacher. She combines 23 years of clinical experience and personal recovery with psychology, mindfulness, sensory motor and yoga training to help her clients move into full recovery. She is the owner of our practice and author of the book, ‘iMove, Helping Your Clients Heal from Compulsive Exercise’. Through the iMove program based on her book, Amy leads movement groups and trains other clinicians how to use the iMove method in their own work.
Details about the fall 2025 group
Time: Wednesday evenings 7-8:30pm October 22nd – December 10th (6 sessions)
Group Dates: 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 12/3, 12/10 (NOTE: No group on 11/19 or 11/26)
Location: Zoom
Facilitator: Amy Gardner, MS, RD, CEDS-C, RYT
Cost: $390 for 6 sessions (one or two payment options available
Size: 6-10 participants
To express interest, complete this form and Amy will reach out to you to set up a screening.
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Finding Fat Joy – Fall/Winter 2025
Community and connection for fat folx living in a weight-centric world
Metrowest Nutrition and Therapy is excited to continue offering this popular group for fat individuals to find community and connection – exploring nourishment beyond nutrients. This group is dedicated to creating a space where people can be seen, heard, and celebrated.
Team members, Samantha and Megan, are hosting a virtual peer support group for people in fat bodies to come together to create a supportive community where people of all ages and gender identities can together share their lived experience of being in a fat body. The peer support group creates space for people to share their challenges and support one another. 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.
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 a support group. I didn’t know what to expect and I was pretty sure that my experience wasn’t relevant or relatable to others. It wasn’t that I thought I was special, it was that I was isolated and wallowing in my hurt and isolation. What I discovered over the summer was that with 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 from this experience and I am not as afraid to confront issues or attitudes that seek to make me see myself as less. I am not alone so I am not afraid.”
Is this group for me?
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Please complete this form to express interest!
When? Every other Wednesday 7-8:30 EST starting November 5th (11/5, 11/19, 12/3, 12/17, 1/7, 1/21 )
How much? $390
Where? Zoom virtual meeting. We are asking for folks to be ready to participate with cameras on.
How many? Max 10 participants
How to join? Please complete this form to see if this group is right for you. Once you apply, someone will reach out to you within 2-3 business days to confirm participation.
Curious but not ready to apply? Join Megan and Sam for an informal info session on Wednesday, October 29th at 7pm. REGISTER FOR FREE HERE.
*DISCLAIMER We use the word “fat” here as a neutral descriptor of a person’s body. Just like we would use “tall” or “short” to describe someone’s height. We use the words “fat” and “thin” to describe the spectrum of shapes and sizes. It’s akin to curvy, plus-size, ample, large. It is not a “bad” word, an insult, or reference to a person’s character. Using this word to describe a body is a bit of a radical move for people, to reclaim and reframe a word that had previously elicited so much shame. We recognize there are people in this world who use it as an insult or a derogatory term. But as a weight inclusive practice with a strong social justice lens, it’s our effort to create a shift in power.