Join Marilee & Patricia for an interactive workshop on collaborative care for people with lived and living experience. Topics include harm reduction, trauma, neurodivergence, cultural sensitivity, gender-affirming care. Please register below to save your spot.
We will explore what a holistic approach to treatment might look for you. What kind of care would feels collaborative to you? What type of support accomodates your individual needs? How would you like to be treated?
We will reflect on the impacts of negative treatment experiences. How do you resolve internalized beliefs that limits your potential? How do you cope with burnout in treatment? How do you plan around gaps in service? Where do you find the glimmers that ground you? How do you re-imagine hope to find ways forward?
We will share skills and resources that will help you feel empowered to make health care decisions that are right for you.
To Register:
Please email us to request the zoom link.
Meet Your Facilitators
Marilee Pumple, RD
Co-founder of Little Spuds Nutrition
Marilee (she/her) is a non-diet Registered Dietitian, late-identified ADHDer, located on the unceded traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples of the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations. She is the Co-founder of Little Spuds Nutrition—a neurodivergent-affirming, trauma-informed, Health At Every Size-aligned dietetic practice dedicated to helping individuals and families cultivate healthy relationships with food.
Marilee specializes in eating disorders and neurodivergent nutrition. She brings warmth and humor to her work, drawing on her own lived experience. Marilee is committed to creating safe, inclusive, and empathetic spaces where clients learn to make peace with food, reclaim trust in their bodies, and access low-barrier foods without shame. Beyond her one-on-one work, Marilee supports rural communities without access to specialized eating disorder programs, to develop services, mentor clinicians and advocate for equitable care.
When not supporting clients, Marilee enjoys life as a mom and her love of all things cheese.
Patricia Obee, RCC
Certified Eating Disorder Specialist
Patricia (she/her) is a Registered Clinical Counsellor residing on the unceded traditional territories of the K’ómoks First Nation. She is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist with a commitment to collaborative, client-centered care that honors each person’s intersecting identities and unique life experiences.
Patricia practices from a harm-reduction, strengths-based, trauma-informed, and anti-oppressive framework with intent of creating an affirming space where clients feel respected, understood, and empowered in their healing. Her experience working in rural and remote communities with limited access to eating disorder services has led to involvement in projects focused on program development, clinician education, and advocating for equitable care across BC and the Yukon.
Outside of her work with clients, Patricia can often be found spending time in nature and enjoying quality time with her family, friends, and her dog, Malcolm.
