Robyn Green (she/her)

Registered Social Worker • Therapist

Areas of Interest

  • Body image/body liberation

  • Eating disorders/disordered eating

  • Perfectionism

  • Confronting anti-fat bias

  • Self-esteem/self-worth

  • Burnout

  • Intimacy and relationships

  • Life transitions

Education

  • Bachelor Arts, Political Science (Carleton University)

  • MA in Humanities (Laurentian University)

  • Master of Social Work (Carleton University)

  • PhD Canadian Studies (Carleton University)

Robyn supports adults and specifically post-secondary students

Robyn is a white-settler, cis gender, straight woman who has observed and experienced how using external expectations to define one’s body and personhood can be harmful to one’s self-esteem. She then began to consider both the personal and structural impacts of anti-fat bias and diet culture in her daily life. She works with clients to examine if expectations to look, act and heal in “normal” ways are incompatible with their values, experiences or goals. She is interested in exploring the stories that we tell about our bodies and consider the possibilities of generating affirming stories supported by client autonomy and consent.

Robyn’s approach is grounded in trauma-informed, anti-oppressive narrative counselling and informed by theories of harm reduction and body liberation. She embraces an integrative approach to therapy that highlights reconnecting with pleasure and creative endeavours, which are aspects of our lives that are often the first to be forgotten when experiencing stress.  

Robyn has experience working with adults and post-secondary students. She is also a self-proclaimed Korean drama enthusiast/expert, a novice blogger and a reader of insufferable memoirs.