Helping to navigate wellness & wellbeing through meaningful therapeutic connection.
Providing individual and family therapy to help people to heal
HOW I CAN HELP
Through evidence based therapy sessions informed by best practice, I help clients navigate thoughts, feelings, behaviours & beliefs to repair relationships with food, body, movement and self.
My goal as a therapist is to create a safe and compassionate space
ABOUT MONICA FREUDENREICH
Welcome,
I am told I bring warmth, genuineness, and a sense of humour and joy to therapy. I am an avid writer, music lover and adventurer when not working with clients. I offer individual and family therapy in person and virtually, and have resource books to help you get started right now in my online shop!
NOW YOU KNOW WHO I AM
This Is What I Do...
I primarily work with people to heal from disordered eating, eating disorders, feelings of loneliness, inadequacy, depression, anxiety, and grief. Since 2010, I have worked with individuals struggling with trauma, substance use, and chronic health conditions including HIV.
"We are all wired for connection. It’s in our biology. As infants, our need for connection is about survival. As we grow older, connection means thriving – emotionally, physically, spiritually, and intellectually. Connection is critical because we all have the basic need to feel accepted and to believe that we belong and are valued for who we are”
— DR. BRENE BROWN
From the blog
... drum roll.... 🧩 June Book Club... ✨ No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz ✨ 📚 JUNE BOOK CLUB ANNOUNCEMENT 📚 After wrapping up Tired As F*ck (and several months of reading our way through some big anti-diet, self compassion, body image, eating disorder, and mental health topics together), I'm excited to announce our next—and final before a summer break—book club pick: ✨ No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz ✨ You've probably heard people talking about: 👉 "Parts work" 👉 Internal Family...
✨ What If Your Inner Critic Is Actually Trying to Help?
Week 7 (May 11 – 17) 📖 How to Figure Out if You're Allowed to Be Tired → How to Live (p. 222–284/end) Alright, a little over a week delayed... here we go 😅 Final week of the book, final recap, and some wrap-up thoughts! 😴 How to Figure Out if You're Allowed to Be Tired "Whether or not you think you deserve to be or not, you're burnt out." (p.224) I sort of love this quote because at its core it gets at something really important: 👉 No matter what the intellectual part of your brain...
📚 Tired As F*ck Book Club - Week 7 [the end!]
By Gabor Mate [if you are curious about what im currently reading or interested in some briefer thoughts about various books ive read, head over to Storygraph and check out my reviews!] This book has been on my shelf and TBR pile since it was released. I finally read it (and finished it)…and I have VERY mixed feelings. This was a big book. Like, unnecessarily lengthy at times. There were entire sections where I found myself thinking: this could have been edited down significantly and still...
⭐️ Book Review: The Myth of Normal
May16 2026, Victoria BC Week 6 (May 4 – 10) 📖 How to Become a French Woman → How to Figure Out What’s Depleting You (p. 164–221) Delayed (again 😅), so thank you for your patience — Week 6 recap!And as always, thanks for being here 💛 🥖 How to Become a French Woman **Trigger warning around her recounting of the pursuit of thinness / ongoing deeply ingrained anti-fat bias and fatphobia. She describes being very tired and ill (including getting mono because her immune system was susceptible),...
📚 Tired As F*ck Book Club - Week 6
Week 4 (Apr 20 – 26) 🛌 Rest / Catch-up week Week 5 (Apr 27 – May 3) 📖 How to Think Positive Thoughts, or Else → How to Get Another New Face (p. 125–163) Slightly delayed—thank you for your patience! Without further ado… Week 5 recap ✨ And as always, thanks for being here. 🌈 How to Think Positive Thoughts, or Else There’s some really solid commentary here on how people can latch onto terms like “intuitive eating” or “mindful eating”… and then completely warp them into another form of...
📚 Tired As F*ck Book Club - Week 4/5
[Photo taken by me on my walk home from Physio today, Victoria, BC April 20 2026] Week 3 (Apr 13 – 19) 📖 How to Be an Actual Cheese Grater in a Musical → How to Make a Vision Tin (p. 85–124) 🧀 How to Be an Actual Cheese Grater in a Musical “I just assumed that I was straight up lazy, and I had to keep pushing harder. This ‘laziness’ assumption is a manifestation of toxic diet culture and toxic self-improvement culture.” I feel like this whole passage—and honestly this chapter—is likely very...