Anxiety, overcontrol, perfectionism
You look composed while rehearsing, monitoring, correcting, and trying not to disappoint anyone. We understand what control protects, then practise a more flexible response.
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Dr. Megumi Maejima-Iyar, PhD, C.Psych
- Clinical Psychologist
- Adults
- Registered in Ontario and Alberta
When holding it together has started costing too much.
Composed outside. Braced inside.
Megumi may fit when anxiety, food or body concerns, self-criticism, relationship strain, grief, health stress, or cultural pressures keep tightening things inside.
In therapy
We begin by understanding what control protects, without turning therapy into another source of pressure.
Recognition · areas of care
What Megumi often helps with.
Begin wherever the pressure is showing up. No diagnosis or complete explanation is required.
Eating, weight, and body concerns
Anorexia, restrictive or other disordered eating, eating more or less than you want, body image, or weight- and health-related change have made food and the body feel like a constant negotiation. We work with ambivalence and build safety without treating pressure as motivation.
Relationships, grief, and health stress
Loss, illness, pain, fertility stress, caregiving, or a repeating relationship pattern leaves little room to recover. We connect the body, relationships, and daily life, then find a more workable response.
Culture, identity, family
Family dynamics, autonomy, food, achievement, code-switching, and belonging can pull in different directions. We include family and culture without blaming them or reducing you to them.
How therapy works
We do not start by taking control away.
Therapy is collaborative, but not passive. We set a meaningful goal, practise safer and more flexible responses, and revise the plan together.
Safety without a power struggle.
We take risk seriously and begin with what you are ready to work on. Pressure is not treated as motivation.
Understand before asking it to change.
We map what a rule, restriction, check, or standard solves now and costs later.
Build a life that needs less bracing.
We practise flexible responses around food and body, boundaries, uncertainty, rest, grief, and belonging, then revise them together.
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