Kitchen Sessions is a non-profit organisation promoting the use of food, cooking and eating as a therapeutic arena for the benefit of all.

We provide training to people working in the welfare professions including counsellors, psychotherapists, coaches, occupational therapists, social workers and mental health professionals.

About us

Our aim is to support, encourage and enable the use of food as an inclusive therapeutic approach to wellbeing, building creative confidence and intrinsic resource.

We foster healthy attachment relationships and promote ‘human village’ behaviours through the preparation, pleasure and sharing of food.

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Training workshops

We are developing tailored workshops to equip welfare practitioners with the knowledge, experience and understanding to start using food therapy in the support they provide to people in the community.

All of our activities revolve around four key thematic ingredients:

  • Exploring the role of food as an attachment vehicle throughout our lives. Recognising how the nutrition from attention, attunement and appreciation in our early years can be rekindled around the kitchen-campfire today

  • As our initial technology, cooking connects to our primal creativity, human potential and purpose.  The kitchen-campfire offers an antidote to AI and virtual technologies in a profoundly real, tangible (and edible) sense.

  • Recognising the role of food, cooking and eating together as part of our daily need for communication, connection and cooperation. Just as each ingredient in a casserole blends into a whole meal, each member of a community is valued for their unique contribution to the group.

  • In an age of secularity, conflict and confusion, the kitchen-campfire offers a space of shared humanity. We use nature as our guide, providing an inclusive spiritual framework, incorporating lessons from neuroscience, philosophy, ecology and psychology into a common language.

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Please fill in the form opposite to get in touch.

You can also share your details here to register your interest and be the first to hear about training opportunities once they are developed.

  • "It feels like another string to my bow."

    Stephanie Monk

    (psychotherapeutic counsellor)

  • "Inspiring and deeply thought-provoking in a way that felt both grounded and innovative."

    Ella Stewart
    (Founder, Bake Well Being)

  • "I loved the quality and content of the training sessions - 10/10"

    Anna Bentley

    (nutritional and counselling therapist)

  • " I feel excited about the opportunities for exploring relationships and attachment from a food and meals starting point. "

    Angela Rogers

    (individual and couples psychotherapist)

  • "How the workshop brought together theory, case examples and personal reflection, was very engaging and informative. "

    Angela Rogers

    (individual and couples psychotherapist)

Kitchen Therapy: How to become a conscious cook

Find out more about the concepts underpinning kitchen therapy and explore the psychological, social and spiritual dimensions food holds for us.

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