Sarah Mccomb

Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Dr. Sarah McComb is a clinical and health psychologist. She is the co-director of the Eating Disorders Clinic at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and an assistant clinical professor in the department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. Her program of research is primarily focused on body image and eating disorders. Within this field, her research has specifically focused on the impact and psychological consequences of social media use on young women’s body image. In particular, she is interested in examining women’s body ideals, disordered behaviours young women engage in in pursuit of their body ideals, the impact of comparison to idealized body types on social media on young women’s body image, and personality and demographic features that put women at risk for having poor body image. Other research interests include psychotherapeutic interventions to improve body image and eating disorder treatment efficacy. She is currently collaborating on psychotherapeutic interventions to address body image distress among perinatal women and an intervention to address treatment-interfering cannabis use among patients presenting for eating disorder treatment. Dr. McComb is passionate about training the next generation of scientist-practitioners and is regularly involved in the clinical and research supervision of undergraduate and graduate students.