About
A brief introduction
Welcome — I’m Uxshely Carcamo, a registered nutritionist, psychotherapist and hypnotherapist (and an ex-lawyer). I founded The Food Therapy Clinic to support people who feel stuck in painful patterns with food — whether that looks like binge eating, emotional eating, chronic dieting, body image distress, ARFID, food aversions, picky eating, or feeling anxious around food after weight loss.
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My approach is interdisciplinary, because food struggles are rarely “just” about food. They’re often linked to stress, shame, nervous system overwhelm, habit loops, and the beliefs we carry about our bodies. In our work together, we bring together therapy, nutrition support and hypnotherapy to help you build a steadier, kinder relationship with eating — without rigid rules or judgement..
​I work with a team of therapists at The Food Therapy Clinic who are all passionate about supporting mental and physical wellbeing through this integrated approach. You will work with a team of experts that are trained in psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and nutrition, and that specialise in working with concerns around food — so you get support that’s both compassionate and clinically grounded.
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If you’re here because food has started to feel confusing, consuming, or exhausting — you’re not alone, and you don’t have to untangle it by yourself.
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What Do We Offer
Rebuild your relationship with food through one-to-one support
We offer one-to-one sessions, delivered online. This is for you if food has started to feel confusing, consuming, or difficult to manage — and you want support that’s compassionate, practical, and clinically grounded.
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Depending on what you’re struggling with, sessions may include psychotherapy, nutrition support and hypnotherapy. Some clients work with one clinician; others benefit from support from two or more therapists within the team. Either way, you’ll be guided step-by-step with care that is tailored to you — not a one-size-fits-all plan.
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We support clients with binge eating, emotional eating, body image distress, ARFID and food aversions, and support for people using or coming off GLP-1 medications who want to feel steadier around food.
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If you’re not sure what you need, you can start with an initial call and we’ll recommend the best next step.
How we help
And why this works long-term...
Most food struggles don’t come from a lack of willpower. They come from a mix of things — stress, shame, habits, nervous system overwhelm, body image, appetite changes, and the ways food has become a coping tool over time.
That’s why our approach looks at the full picture. We combine psychotherapy, nutrition support and hypnotherapy to help you change patterns around food in a way that feels steady and sustainable — not like a short-term fix you have to keep restarting.
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People often find us when they’re searching for answers like:
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“How can I get help with my relationship with food?”
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“How can I stop binge eating?”
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“Is there treatment for ARFID, food aversions or picky eating?”
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“How can I come off GLP-1 medications without regaining or panicking around food?”
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We also know something important: most people already know what they should be doing. The real question is why it feels so hard to do it consistently — especially when you’re stressed, tired, overwhelmed, or stuck in old coping patterns. That’s the part we help you understand and change.
What this looks like in practice:
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Binge eating: we don’t just suggest distractions in the moment. We help you work with the underlying cycle — triggers, self-criticism, restriction, nervous system overwhelm, and the “afterwards” shame — so urges reduce over time.
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ARFID and food aversions: we don’t simply tell you to “eat more foods.” We work with the fear, sensory sensitivity, and psychological blocks that make food feel unsafe or distressing.
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Weight loss and maintenance (including GLP-1 support): we won’t reduce this to “cut calories and exercise more.” We support appetite changes, food noise, emotional eating patterns, and the transition off medication so you feel steadier around food.
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Bulimia / purging behaviours: we don’t just repeat the harms you already know. We work with the drivers beneath the behaviour — urgency, relief, distress tolerance, shame, and the loop that keeps it going.
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Sugar resets and cravings: we don’t try to scare you off sugar. We help you understand what sugar is doing for you (soothing, numbing, coping, stimulation) and build other ways to meet that need.
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Orthorexia: we know that “just eat more variety” doesn’t address what’s really happening. We work with the anxiety, rules, fear of uncertainty, and self-worth pieces underneath.
If any of this feels familiar, you’re not alone — and you don’t have to untangle it by yourself.
Techniques
A practical, evidence-based approach - tailored to you.
Food struggles are rarely “just” about food — so we don’t treat them with one single approach. We combine psychological and nutritional support to help you change patterns around eating in a way that feels sustainable.
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Depending on what you’re dealing with — binge eating, emotional eating, body image distress, ARFID/food aversions, or support while using or coming off GLP-1 medications — we tailor the work to you and your goals.
Hypnotherapy
(habit loops and automatic patterns)
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Hypnotherapy is a therapeutic tool that can help you change patterns that happen on “autopilot” — the behaviours you find yourself repeating even when you know they aren’t helping.
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Just like driving a familiar route without thinking through every step, many eating behaviours become automatic over time. Reaching for biscuits when you feel stressed, snacking when you’re overwhelmed, or eating past fullness to switch off can become a learned response — a habit loop your brain has practiced.
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Hypnotherapy can help you work with the subconscious part of that loop, so you can pause, respond with more choice, and build new patterns that feel easier to access. It’s often especially helpful for emotional eating, binge urges, and reducing the pull of “food noise” — alongside psychotherapy and nutrition support.
Psychotherapy
(understanding the ‘why’ behind eating patterns)
Psychotherapy is a form of talking therapy that helps you explore what’s driving your eating patterns — not just what you’re doing, but why it keeps happening, even when part of you wants it to stop.
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We draw from evidence-based approaches such as CBT-informed, psychodynamic, and humanistic therapy (chosen based on your needs). This can help you understand triggers, thoughts, emotions, body image, stress responses, and habit loops — and build different ways of coping that don’t rely on food.
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Psychotherapy can be particularly helpful for binge eating, emotional eating, restriction and rebound cycles, low self-esteem, and food anxiety. It can also support the underlying factors that often sit beneath food struggles — including stress, anxiety, low mood, trauma responses, perfectionism, and self-criticism.
Nutrition Support
(evidence-based, practical, non-diet)
There’s so much contradictory nutrition advice online that it’s hard to know what genuinely helps. We take a science-based, non-judgemental approach — no fads, no quick fixes, no rigid “diet plans.”
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Instead, we focus on practical changes that support appetite, energy, cravings and mood, and help you build steadier eating patterns over time. This can be especially helpful if you’re dealing with binge eating, emotional eating, weight loss/maintenance (including GLP-1 support), or you want support meeting nutrition needs with ARFID/food aversions.
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We’ll also help you cut through noise and confusion, so you can feel confident about what works for your body and your life — in a way that supports long-term health, not short-term intensity.
Nervous system and mindfulness tools
(awareness, cues, urges)
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So often we eat on autopilot — in a rush, at our desks, on the train, or in front of the television — that we barely notice what we’re eating, how much, or what we’re actually needing in that moment.
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We use mindfulness and nervous system tools to help you slow things down and tune back into your body. This might include simple grounding practices, noticing hunger/fullness cues, and learning to pause when an urge hits — so eating becomes more intentional and less driven by stress or overwhelm.
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Over time, this can support steadier eating patterns, fewer binge urges, and a calmer relationship with food — especially when combined with psychotherapy, nutrition support and hypnotherapy.
The approach
We are experts in working with issues around food
We appreciate that the most effective long-term treatments for issues around food are holistic and interdisciplinary and involve optimising sleeping habits and dietary choices as well as changing thinking patterns. We don't want you to have to go through years and years of therapy/dieting/food worries to try and figure out how you can shift your relationship with food. We are experts that can help you to get straight to the root of your issues around food and to resolve them in a way that is sustainable long-term.
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What makes The Food Therapy Clinic different:
There are a complex matrix of factors that drive food-related issues and understanding and being able to resolve these factors requires an in-depth knowledge and understanding of eating psychology. We have this knowledge and understanding and specialise in working with a range of food issues.
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You will receive a very high level of care from us, you will often be working with two different professionals (a hypnotherapist/psychotherapist and a nutritionist), will check in with these professionals in between sessions and will also receive things to do in between sessions, including recordings to listen to and workbooks to complete.
We use an interdisciplinary method for the treatment of food issues which means that you don't have to have lots of separate treatments to resolve your issue.
We know that hypnotherapy is most effective when combined with psychotherapy and helpful nutrition advice. We know that stress can only be effectively managed when we have also optimised your sleeping habits. We will look at your food issues from a range of angles so that you can be confident that we will find a long-term solution to shifting these habits.
We really care. We are passionate about helping others with their relationship with food. We really believe that everyone deserves to enjoy a healthy relationship with food so that they can reclaim the time, space and mental energy that they have used worrying about food to instead just enjoy their life.
Get in Touch
Book in a free consultation today
We understand how challenging it can be to face issues around food and know that it will be important for you to find the right treatment for you. This is why we think that it is important that you are given the opportunity to speak to the founder of the clinic before committing to any therapy packages or products. We offer a 20 minute free phone consultation to anyone that is thinking about booking in a session or signing up for an online programme.
The Food Therapy Clinic
4 Staple Inn
High Holborn
London
WC1V 7QH
nearest tube Chancery Lane
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& Online Clinic
Our Goal
We want to help you to make permanent changes and the only way to permanently change how you eat is to look at WHY you eat the way you do
People’s issues with food come in all shapes and sizes. Yet there is one thing that these issues all have in common - there is some psychological pattern driving them - causing you to repeat the same cycle over and over again. We understand what drives these repetitive and destructive patterns - and can help you to reverse the unhealthy habits of a lifetime - for good.
