Shift Nutrition

About

Jessica Begg and Lindsay Gervais, Registered Dietitians in Calgary, specialize in Eating Disorders, weight management, gut and heart health, and building workplace wellness initiatives.

Story

Jessica Begg, Registered Dietitian, excels at helping others make significant, healthy changes. She uses strategies that are reasonable in real life and sustainable over time. Described by her clients as their “Food Therapist”, she guides them towards a fearless and natural relationship with food. Her speciality is ‘food and mood’ and how to navigate the relationship so that it does not hinder quality of life.

She has worked in the field of Eating Disorders, for both youths and adults, in private practice and with Vancouver Coastal Health, Fraser Health Eating Disorders Programs and the Community Outreach Partnership Program for the St. Paul’s Eating Disorders Program, for almost 10 years. She has training in cognitive behaviour therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy and family-based therapy or the Maudsley Model for the treatment of eating disorders. Her work with those that struggle with anorexia, bulimia and binge-eating has been helpful in developing unique strategies to make changes in eating as comfortable as possible for all of her clients.

Using similar principles for change, she has also helped individuals and entire workplaces, through workplace wellness programming, to optimize general health. She has helped her clients manage weight, chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, prepare others for pregnancy, get on the cutting edge on their athletic performance, or discover ways to cope with IBS.