• Are You Looking for Peer Support?

    Connecting with others who understand your experience can be incredibly helpful.

    Our trained Peer Supporters draw on their experience with eating disorder recovery, providing non-judgmental encouragement and support through our groups and individual mentoring.

    Join our eating disorder recovery community!

Peer Support Groups (Ages 18+)

Our Peer Support Groups are welcoming, pro-recovery spaces to share strategies and challenges in a supportive environment.

These virtual groups are facilitated by our trained Peer Mentors. Register once, then join whenever you’d like.

  • One-on-One Mentoring (Ages 14+)

    Connecting with someone who has been there and understands. Request a Mentor, and we will match you one of our with a trained Peer Mentor for one-on-one support. Together, you can decide how often to meet and what you want support with.

    Request a Peer Mentor

Meet our Peer Support Team

  • Debra Wells-Hopey (she/her)

    PROGRAM MANAGER

    As Programs Manager with Eating Disorders Nova Scotia, Debra leads the development and delivery of the organization’s suite of programs. She provides supervision to a team of Peer Support coordinators and works to offer the highest quality support programs based on data, research and community input.

    Debra is a PhD (candidate), Education Studies (MSVU) and holds degrees in both philosophy and public relations. She lives in downtown Dartmouth with her husband and an alarmingly lazy cat, has two adult children, practices yoga most days of the week and loves trash television, vintage clothing, and reading cozy mystery novels.

    Debra has personal experience with disordered eating, treatment, and recovery. She understands that eating disorders can be lonely, and that recovery is a deeply personal journey that is aided by surrounding oneself with a community that acts as a support, a sounding board, and a soft place to just “be.”

    Contact Debra

  • Jaime Delaney (she/her)

    PEER SUPPORT COORDINATOR

    Jaime is an excited learner and passionate mental health advocate. Growing up seeing the impacts of mental illness around her, as well as experiencing anxiety and an eating disorder, determined her career path.

    Jaime has completed her peer support certification with Peer Support Canada. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Psychology from McMaster University, minoring in Mental Health, Addictions, and Society, and a graduate certificate in Concurrent Disorders from Mohawk College. Jaime has years of experience in peer-focused roles, where she developed a non- judgmental and person-centered approach to supporting others and brings this combination of knowledge and lived experience into her current work.

    When she’s not working, Jaime enjoys true crime podcasts, video games, reading, and any activity where she can spend time with the people she loves.

    Contact Jaime