One-to-one Therapy For Food Issues
Our one-to-one sessions provide a structured, personalised approach to understanding and changing the patterns that are keeping you stuck — whether that relates to your relationship with food, your body, or wider areas such as stress, anxiety, or emotional wellbeing.
Rather than repeating advice you may already know, our work focuses on the underlying drivers of these patterns — including thoughts, emotions, habits, and learned responses — so that change feels more sustainable and less effortful over time.
You will work with a carefully selected therapist from our team, all of whom are experienced in working with food-related and emotional difficulties. Where appropriate, your work may also be supported by a nutritionist, allowing us to take a more complete, interdisciplinary approach.
Our approach combines psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, behaviour change strategies, and evidence-informed nutrition guidance. This means we are able to look at your difficulties from multiple angles, rather than relying on a single method.
Sessions are tailored to you. Some will focus on understanding patterns and building insight, while others will be more practical and tool-based — giving you strategies you can apply in your day-to-day life. We also offer the option of brief check-ins between sessions where needed, so you feel supported throughout the process.
What To Expect
Taking you through your journey to rebuild your relationship with food
Therapy isn't just about talking - it's about understanding how your mind works, discovering what's keeping you stuck, and learning practical tools that help you create lasting change.
Every session is tailored to you and may draw on CBT, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, behaviour change techniques, mindfulness and nutrition support. You'll leave with practical tools you can start using straight away - not just insights, but strategies that help create lasting change.
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Book your free consultation
We'll take the time to understand what you're struggling with, answer any questions and recommend the approach that best fits your needs.
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Meet your therapist
You'll be matched with an experienced psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and/or nutritionist depending on your goals. Sessions are available online via video call.
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Understanding what's keeping the problem going
Together we'll identify the thoughts, emotions, behaviours and habits that may be maintaining your difficulties. Understanding why you're stuck is often the first step towards lasting change.
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Build practical tools that work in real life
Every session is designed to leave you with practical strategies you can start using straight away. Depending on your needs, this might include CBT techniques, hypnotherapy, behavioural experiments, nutrition support, mindfulness or worksheets to practise between sessions.
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Create lasting change
The goal isn't simply to help you feel better for a few weeks. It's to help you develop the confidence, skills and understanding to maintain your progress long after therapy has ended.
The Treatment Packages
Lasting change starts with understanding what's keeping you stuck
All sessions are delivered online via secure video call, making it easy to fit therapy around work, family and everyday life. Choose from one of our treatment packages below and we'll recommend the option that's best suited to your goals during your free consultation.
Starter Package
Five sessions including one 90-minute assessment session, followed by four 60-minute therapy sessions, typically spaced 2–3 weeks apart.
Ideal if you'd like focused support with a specific issue.
In-Depth Package
Ten sessions including one 90-minute assessment session, followed by nine 60-minute therapy sessions, held weekly or fortnightly.
Designed for people looking to create meaningful, lasting change.
Total Transformation Package
Fifteen sessions including one 90-minute assessment session, followed by fourteen 60-minute therapy sessions, held weekly or fortnightly.
Ideal if you've been struggling for a longer period of time or would benefit from more comprehensive support.
Premium Transformation Package
Thirty sessions including one 90-minute assessment session, followed by twenty-nine 60-minute therapy sessions, held weekly or fortnightly.
Our most comprehensive package, offering ongoing support together with personalised resources and therapeutic tools to support lasting change.
Our goal isn't simply to help you change how you eat - it's to help you rebuild your relationship with food for life. To give each client the care, attention and support they deserve, we work with a limited number of clients at any one time.
Therapy doesn't stop when the session ends. Between sessions you'll receive personalised worksheets, practical tools and (where appropriate) hypnotherapy recordings to help you build new habits around food. We'll also check in with you regularly to answer questions, support your progress and help you create changes that last long after therapy has finished.
Meet Your Therapist
Each of the therapists is trained to deliver FTCM®, the unique interdisciplinary method to treat food issues that is only on offer at The Food Therapy Clinic
You will be matched with one psychotherapist/hypnotherapist who will work with you for the majority of the treatment. You also have the option to have as many sessions with a nutritionist as you think would be helpful and can receive email support from your nutritionist during the programme too.
Uxshely
All of the self-help programmes and some one-on-one sessions are run by me, the founder of the clinic. After graduating with a first from Oxford University and spending some time working as a corporate lawyer, I decided to re-train in a range of disciplines which would allow me to enhance the health of others both physically and mentally, including: psychotherapy, biomedicine, hypnotherapy, public health nutrition, meditation and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). At the clinic I have created and now use FTCM®, a unique method combining several of these techniques and disciplines to help my clients to optimise their food choices; deal with their eating disorders; break free of the vicious dieting cycle; and to feel great about themselves and their bodies.
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The qualifications I have undertaken include:
Oxford University (University College): first class honours, Law with French Law LLB; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: MSc in nutrition for global health; British School of Meditation: meditation teacher training; NLP Life Training: qualified practitioner of NLP and clinical hypnosis (training with the creator of NLP, Richard Bandler and studying hypnosis with Paul McKenna); College of Naturopathic Medicine: biomedicine course; and the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy: hypnotherapy and psychotherapy advanced diploma
I am registered with:
The National Society of Talking Therapies; The Complementary and National Healthcare Council; The Association for Nutrition; and the UKCP.
Heather
Heather is trained as an Advanced Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and Hypnotherapist and loves helping people to rebuild a more positive relationship with food. Food is one of the most important relationships that we have. We often live out some of our most prominent emotions through food as it often has a deeply interconnected relationship with our psychology, our culture, our family frameworks and our beliefs. Heather believes that breaking down our more difficult patterning around food can be an incredibly healing experience as it shows us where food can become the manifestation of our unspoken needs.
Heather qualified in 2013 and has been working in private practice for the last 10 years. She always aims to provide a deeply respectful, open, calm and compassionate environment where you and her are able to work side by side towards a deeper understanding of what you are facing so that old patterns that have been stored in the body can be released, relieving you of their presence and their influence upon your life.
Gabriella
Gabriella has over a decade of experience in integrative therapy and extensive experience in facilitating roles such as family support work and mentoring teenagers. She was on a placement for a year as a child therapist on behalf of a charity and has worked with mental health patients in residential homes.
Gabriella's core belief is that whatever you want to achieve or eliminate in life, the solution lies within. Her passion is to assist you on your journey so that you can tap into your inner greatness. Gabriella works with you to help you to transform your relationship with food and to achieve the lifestyle and the life that you have always wanted.
She takes a very individualistic approach as one size does not necessarily fit all. She sees her job as your therapist as being to work with whatever you bring into the room (a judgement-free space) and use all of her resources to find the right 'tools' to help you on the rest of life's journey. She believes that it is all about empowering the self.
Charlie
Charlie is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Mindfulness Teacher and Life Coach. She is a compassionate and empathetic therapist – treating the client as a whole and interesting person, rather than just a list of symptoms. She regularly works with food issues and believes that unmet emotional needs, or unidentified patterns and habits from the past usually lie at the root of the problem.
Charlie believes that therapy is a very powerful process and works with clients in an integrative way to help them discover what is going on beneath the surface and how they can move on to live a happier life with a healthy relationship with food.
Prior to becoming a therapist and coach Charlie had a 15-year career in the media as a broadcast journalist, news editor, presenter, writer and voice over artist. Many of the skills and passions she developed during this varied career she now brings to her therapeutic work – mainly her keen interest in understanding people and their life stories and the ability to use her voice during hypnotherapy.
Susanna provides a supportive and non-judgmental environment where individuals feel safe and understood. Through collaborative efforts, she equips clients with the necessary tools, resources, and guidance to overcome their eating disorders and establish healthier relationships with food and their bodies.
Susanna
Susanna is a dedicated registered Nutritional therapist, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) practitioner and pharmacist who specialises in weight loss, eating disorders, and disordered eating. With a profound understanding of the challenges associated with these conditions, Susanna is driven to help individuals on their journey to recovery.
Having personally experienced the impact of obesity followed by an eating disorder without professional support, Susanna recognises the transformative difference that guidance and professional assistance can make. Drawing from her own journey and clinical experience, she is committed to utilising her knowledge and professional expertise to assist others facing similar struggles.
Kirstie
Kirstie is a UKCP registered integrative psychotherapist who uses clinical hypnotherapy as one of a range of psychotherapeutic interventions to help you to make the changes you make to make to move on with your life. The treatment you receive from Kirstie will be as unique as you are to help bring about deep and therefore lasting change.
Kirstie is trained at Masters level in integrated psychotherapy including hypnotherapy, psychodynamic therapy, NLO, humanistic therapy and also trauma interventions including polyvagal and sensorimotor therapy. The broad range of approaches that she is trained in and the way that she combines these will completely tailor your therapy to you.
Kirstie is a member of UKCP, the CNHC and an Associate Member of The Royal Society of Medicine and is experienced in working with a wide range of food related issues including weight management, sugar control, fertility, food aversions, emotional eating, stress and anxiety, low self-esteem and trauma. Kirstie will offer you privacy, space, and support for you to focus on the issues and goals you have and to help you rebuild your relationship with food.
Vanessa
Vanessa is a clinical hypnotherapist and psychotherapist. She uses an integrative, humanistic approach so each therapy session is tailored to you as an individual and your unique needs. Vanessa specialises in working with eating problems such as binge eating, bulimia and ARFID. Using a hypno-psychotherapeutic approach, Vanessa helps you to address the underlying causes of your eating problems so you are healing from within and not just dealing with the symptoms.
Outside of work, Vanessa has been passionate about sports and dance from a young age and still enjoys dedicating her time to yoga, Pilates, gymnastics, ballet and general fitness.
Before moving into her therapy career, Vanessa was in the corporate world in sales and recruitment. She understands the pressure, stress and anxiety being in this world can cause. She loves to help people to build a positive relationship with food and themselves.
Contact
Get in touch to book in an initial consultation
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
Open 9am-9pm, Monday-Sunday
Why Work With Us
FTCM® employs a range of techniques to help you to make permanent changes
At The Food Therapy Clinic each of our therapists has an in depth understanding of what drives people to have disordered eating habits and we understand both the psychology of these patterns as well as which nutritional changes are optimum for achieving lasting results. Most therapists don’t understand nutrition and most nutritionists don’t understand psychology - but we can bring you the best information and tools from a range of different disciplines that you won’t find elsewhere.
How much money have you wasted on diets, meal plans, retreats or juice plans? How much time and mental energy have you used up worrying about food, socialising around food, calories or your weight?... All of which have not resolved your issues around food long-term? Imagine waking up knowing that you never have to worry about dieting, binge-eating, erratic eating patterns, feeling anxious about certain foods or making unhelpful food choices ever again - that you can just be free to enjoy a variety of nutritious, delicious food that is good for your mind and body. How much more free time would you have:
- now that you do not need to worry about which diet you are going to start “tomorrow”;
- now that you don’t need to obsess over starving yourself, just to binge eat at the end of the day;
- now that you naturally want to make healthy choices;
- now that you don't feel anxious around certain foods or worry about meals out;
- now that you are well nourished and full of energy instead of starving and tired;
- now that you don’t get that horrible bloating and upset stomach every time you eat; or
- now that you don't spend every day obsessing over food and your weight.
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