Hillary McBride

Hillary McBride, PhD, Registered Clinical Counsellor, is a researcher, therapist, and author, and speaker with a private practice in Vancouver, British Columbia. McBride was treated for a chronic and life-threatening eating disorder for several years before beginning her journey to recovery. It was during her treatment that she became curious about the body, including how we think and talk about bodies individually and societally, and how that shapes our experiences of ourselves, others, and...See more

Hillary McBride, PhD, Registered Clinical Counsellor, is a researcher, therapist, and author, and speaker with a private practice in Vancouver, British Columbia. McBride was treated for a chronic and life-threatening eating disorder for several years before beginning her journey to recovery. It was during her treatment that she became curious about the body, including how we think and talk about bodies individually and societally, and how that shapes our experiences of ourselves, others, and the world. McBride's experiential knowledge set the foundation for academic pursuits. For her master's thesis, McBride researched how messages about bodies are passed between parents and children, and how women can develop and share healthy and loving relationships to their bodies. For her doctoral research McBride has explored how women in their mid and later life experience embodiment through the metamorphosis of the menopausal transition. McBride's clinical and academic work has been recognized by the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association, and in 2017 she was awarded the international Young Investigators Award for her research and clinical work in human sexuality. In 2018 she was awarded the Government of Canada's Doctoral Research Fellowship through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for her innovative and promising research, and she has been named an outstanding scholar and clinician by the University of British Columbia. McBride's research, academic writings, and extensive clinical training, have identified her as an expert in the field in the following areas: embodiment and the mind/body connection, body image, eating disorders, sexual functioning and sexuality, feminist psychology, trauma, trauma and spirituality, sex and spirituality, developmental psychology, positive psychology and the growth and thriving of the whole person, mothering, mother/daughter relationships, perinatal mental health, and neuropsychology. Website: www.hillarylmcbride.com See less