About MCW
Real support. Deep understanding. A better way forward.
Montreal Comprehensive exists for people who need more than general advice. MCW brings psychological depth into a practical, multidisciplinary approach to weight, eating, and lasting change.
Why MCW exists
Weight management is rarely just about food or willpower.
For many people, the struggle involves biology, emotion, habits, stress, identity, relationships, discouragement, and the difficulty of making change last in real life. MCW was created to respond to that fuller picture.
People may arrive through different doors: medication support, bariatric surgery support, emotional eating, self-sabotage, family concerns, or a broader wish for a more complete way forward. What unites the work is the belief that sustainable progress depends on understanding the whole person.
The approach is respectful, practical, clinically grounded, and non-shaming. MCW does not begin with blame or assume the answer is simply more discipline. The work is to understand what is maintaining the problem, what is already working, and what kind of support is most likely to help.
What makes MCW different
Psychology is central, while medical tools are respected.
MCW is built around the behavioral and psychological side of change, while remaining compatible with medical treatment, medication, and surgery.
Psychology is central, not optional
For many people, the hardest part is staying engaged, working with emotion, recovering after setbacks, and changing patterns that have become deeply familiar.
Compatible with medical treatment
MCW works with people using weight-loss medication, considering surgery, or moving through those processes by supporting the human side of success.
Multidisciplinary support
Depending on the situation, support may involve psychology, nutrition, physical activity guidance, or a combination of these.
Focused on lasting change
The goal is not only weight loss. It is better self-regulation, better habits, greater stability, and a stronger foundation for long-term health.
Led by Dr. Stephen Stotland.
Montreal Comprehensive was founded by Dr. Stephen Stotland, a psychologist, researcher, professor, and long-time clinician in the field of obesity and weight management.
His work has focused on the psychology of eating, self-regulation, emotional coping, motivation, and long-term behavior change. The vision behind MCW is to bring that depth into a practical system of care: one that helps people understand themselves more clearly and make changes that can hold up in real life.
MCW serves adults, teens, and families who need support beyond generic diet advice, including people navigating medication, surgery, emotional eating, and repeated cycles of effort and discouragement.
Find the right next step.
Whether you arrive through medication support, surgery support, emotional eating, or a broader search for a better path, the goal is the same: clarity and support that fit.