🧒🏽 Supporting teens and families with care, compassion, and clarity
Adolescence is a time of major physical, emotional, and social change. For teens struggling with weight, this period can be especially challenging—filled with self-doubt, social pressure, and often shame.
As a parent, it can be heartbreaking to watch your child struggle and not know how to help. You may feel caught between wanting to support them and not wanting to add pressure or make things worse.
That’s where we come in.
At the Montreal Comprehensive Weight Management Program, we offer a supportive, evidence-informed approach for adolescents and their families. We focus on long-term health, confidence, and emotional well-being—not just numbers on a scale.

🌱 Why Focus on Adolescents?
Adolescence is a critical window for developing lifelong habits and self-perceptions.
Early support can help prevent:

• Ongoing cycles of dieting and weight regain
• Poor body image and low self-esteem
• The onset of binge eating or disordered eating
• Avoidance of physical activity and health care
• Mood issues like anxiety and depression

When done with care, early intervention builds resilience—not restriction.

💬 What Teens Often Struggle With

• Feeling different or left out
• Emotional eating or stress-related snacking
• Low motivation or negative self-talk
• Confusion around nutrition and exercise
• Internalizing stigma or criticism
• Trying—and “failing”—at diets too young

Our job isn’t to “fix” teens. It’s to understand them, build their strengths, and guide them toward healthier relationships with food, movement, and themselves.

👪 Our Approach: Collaborative and Compassionate
We work with teens and their families to create lasting, meaningful change—without shame, strict rules, or unrealistic goals.
For Adolescents:

• A safe space to talk about weight, body image, stress, and self-esteem
• Strategies for emotional regulation and self-acceptance
• Gentle, realistic guidance around food and physical activity
• Empowerment to take ownership of their well-being

For Parents:

• Coaching on how to support without pressuring
• Family-based strategies that reduce conflict and increase collaboration
• Tools to understand and respond to emotional or behavioral patterns
• Support for your own feelings of worry, guilt, or confusion

When families grow together, change is more likely to last.

🧭 Program Options for Adolescents
👤 Individual Therapy
For teens who benefit from a private, personalized space to explore challenges and build skills.
👨‍👩‍👧 Family-Based Treatment
Evidence supports involving parents in adolescent care. We provide structured sessions where teens and parents learn, plan, and grow together.
🌀 The MCW Program (Teen Track)
A modified version of our adult program, adapted for adolescents. Includes age-appropriate guidance in nutrition, activity, and self-regulation—with optional parent participation.

💬 From Parents & Teens 

• I didn’t want to talk to anyone at first, but it felt like they actually understood me—not just what I ate, but how I felt.” — Teen client
• “We finally stopped fighting about food at home. I learned how to be more supportive without walking on eggshells.” — Parent

🌈 Give Your Teen a Chance to Feel Stronger, Healthier, and More in Control
If you're wondering how to help your teen develop healthier habits and self-confidence—without causing harm—we're here to guide you.

👉 Schedule a Free 15-Minute Parent Consultation

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