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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Understand 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
Specialist support that brings together psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and nutrition to help you change your relationship with food.
You will be matched with a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist who has experience supporting people with food and eating difficulties. They will work with you throughout the majority of your treatment, so that you have consistency and can build a strong therapeutic relationship.
Where helpful, you can also have sessions with one of our nutrition professionals, who can provide personalised nutrition support alongside your psychological therapy. You can choose how many nutrition sessions you would like and can also receive email support during your programme.
Uxshely
I am the founder of The Food Therapy Clinic and a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and registered nutritionist, with specialist experience in the psychology of food and eating.
After graduating with first-class honours in Law with French Law from the University of Oxford and working as a corporate lawyer, I retrained across psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and nutrition. This combination allows me to approach difficulties around food from both a psychological and nutritional perspective.
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Over the years, I have worked with people struggling with emotional eating, binge eating, food anxiety, ARFID and food aversions, body image and difficult relationships with food. My approach is practical and compassionate, drawing on evidence-based psychological tools alongside hypnotherapy and nutrition where appropriate.
My qualifications include:
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University of Oxford (University College): First Class Honours, Law with French Law
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: MSc Nutrition for Global Health
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National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy: Advanced Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy
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British School of Meditation: Meditation Teacher Training
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NLP Life Training: Practitioner training in NLP and Clinical Hypnosis
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College of Naturopathic Medicine: Biomedicine
Professional registrations include:
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UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
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Association for Nutrition (AfN)
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Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC)
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National Society of Talking Therapies
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 can have a deeply interconnected relationship with our psychology, culture, family frameworks and beliefs.
Heather believes that breaking down difficult patterns around food can be an incredibly healing experience, helping us to understand where food may have become a manifestation of our unspoken needs.
Heather qualified in 2013 and has been working in private practice for over 10 years. She aims to provide a respectful, open, calm and compassionate environment, where you can work side by side towards a deeper understanding of what you are facing, so that old patterns can begin to loosen their presence and influence upon your life.
Gabriella
Gabriella has over a decade of experience in integrative therapy, alongside experience in family support work and mentoring teenagers. She has also worked as a child therapist on behalf of a charity and supported people experiencing mental health difficulties in residential settings.
Gabriella believes that therapy can help you to better understand yourself, recognise the patterns that may be keeping you stuck and develop the tools to make meaningful changes. At The Food Therapy Clinic, she works with you to transform your relationship with food and make changes that feel realistic and sustainable for you.
Her approach is highly individual, recognising that one size does not fit all. She provides a warm, judgement-free space in which you can explore whatever you bring to therapy and draws on a range of therapeutic tools to find an approach that works for you.
Ultimately, Gabriella's aim is to help you feel more confident and empowered in making changes to both your relationship with food and your life.
Charlie
Charlie is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Mindfulness Teacher and Life Coach who regularly works with people experiencing difficulties around food and eating.
She is a compassionate and empathetic therapist who believes in treating each client as a whole and individual person, rather than simply a list of symptoms. She helps clients explore the emotions, habits and past experiences that may be contributing to their current relationship with food, while developing practical tools to help them make positive changes.
Charlie works in an integrative way, helping you to understand what may be going on beneath the surface and supporting you in developing a healthier and more comfortable 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 now inform her therapeutic work — particularly her curiosity about people and their life stories, alongside her ability to use her voice as part of her hypnotherapy work.
Drawing on both her personal experience and professional knowledge, Susanna provides a supportive and non-judgemental environment in which clients can feel safe and understood. She works collaboratively with each person, providing practical nutrition guidance, tools and support to help them develop a healthier and more sustainable relationship with food and their body.
Her combined background in nutrition and pharmacy also gives Susanna a broad understanding of the relationship between food, health and wellbeing.
Susanna
Susanna is a registered Nutritional Therapist, pharmacist and NLP practitioner with experience supporting people with weight management, disordered eating and difficult relationships with food.
Having personally experienced obesity followed by an eating disorder without professional support, Susanna understands how challenging our relationship with food and our bodies can become — and the difference that compassionate, professional support can make.
Kirstie
Kirstie is a UKCP-registered integrative psychotherapist and clinical hypnotherapist with experience supporting people with a wide range of food and eating difficulties.Her approach is highly individualised. Rather than using one approach for everyone, Kirstie draws on a range of psychotherapeutic tools to understand what may be contributing to your difficulties and to help you make meaningful, lasting changes to your relationship with food and yourself.
Kirstie is trained to Master's level in integrative psychotherapy, including clinical hypnotherapy, psychodynamic and humanistic therapy, alongside approaches for working with trauma, including sensorimotor therapy.
She has experience working with food aversions, emotional eating, weight management and difficult relationships with food, as well as related difficulties including stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and trauma.
Kirstie provides a private, supportive and non-judgemental space in which you can explore the issues that matter to you, work towards your individual goals and begin to feel more comfortable and confident around food.
Professional registrations and memberships include UKCP, CNHC and Associate Membership of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Vanessa
Vanessa is a clinical hypnotherapist and psychotherapist who specialises in working with eating difficulties including binge eating, bulimia and ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder).
She works using an integrative, humanistic approach, meaning that therapy is tailored to you as an individual and your particular needs. Combining psychotherapy and hypnotherapy, Vanessa helps you to explore the thoughts, emotions, experiences and patterns that may be contributing to your difficulties with food, while developing practical tools to help you make lasting changes.
Vanessa is passionate about helping people to develop a more positive relationship with food and with themselves, rather than simply focusing on the symptoms of their eating difficulties.
Before becoming a therapist, Vanessa worked in the corporate world in sales and recruitment, giving her first-hand insight into the pressure, stress and anxiety that can accompany demanding working environments.
Outside of her therapeutic work, Vanessa has been passionate about sport and dance from a young age and continues to enjoy yoga, Pilates, gymnastics, ballet and fitness.
Contact
Get in touch to book in an initial consultation
We understand that reaching out for support around food and eating can feel like a big step, and finding the right therapist and approach for you is important.
That's why we offer a free 20-minute initial phone consultation before you commit to any treatment. It's an opportunity to tell us a little about what you're struggling with, ask any questions you may have and explore how we might be able to help.
If it feels like we're the right fit, we'll then match you with the therapist best suited to your individual needs and talk you through the next steps.
Why Work With Us
Because difficulties with food are rarely just about food.
At The Food Therapy Clinic, we understand that difficulties around eating can involve much more than simply knowing what to eat. Thoughts, emotions, habits, anxiety, past experiences, sensory sensitivities and your wider relationship with food can all play a part.
That's why our approach brings together psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and nutrition, allowing us to look at both the psychological and nutritional aspects of your relationship with food. Rather than simply giving you another set of rules to follow, we help you understand the patterns that may be keeping you stuck and develop practical tools to begin changing them.
Whether you're struggling with emotional eating, binge eating, ARFID or food aversions, anxiety around food or a difficult relationship with eating, our aim is to help you feel more confident, flexible and comfortable around food, in a way that works for you and your life.
Imagine having more space in your life because food doesn't take up quite so much of it.
Less time replaying what you've eaten. Less anxiety about meals out. Less feeling that you'll start again “tomorrow”. And more freedom to eat, socialise and get on with the rest of your life.
What Can We Help With?
Explore our specialist support for different food and eating difficulties.
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