Charlotte Hastings

Charlotte Hastings is a psychodynamic counsellor who also draws on her training in systemic family therapy and attachment theory to inform her work. She studied anthropology at university, and her previous career in education led to her appointment as head of drama in a special needs school. Partly informed by a 1970s childhood split between her grandmother’s home-cooking and her working mother’s boil-in-the-bag dinners, she developed Kitchen Therapy, integrating talk therapy with cooking in sessions, designed to enhance personal and social wellbeing for individuals, families and groups. She has contributed articles on Kitchen Therapy to professional journals, blogs and the media, and written a chapter for Attachment, Relationships and Food (Cundy, 2021). Her Kitchen Sessions podcasts feature interviews with people from many backgrounds about the place of food in their lives.

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https://soundcloud.com/kitchensessionspodcast