‘Burger, Chips and a Side Order of Depression to Go Please’

The intention of this paper is to explore how societal food choices may be affecting our clients’ mentation and discuss alternative drivers behind their feelings anger, sadness fear that potentially lead fixed moods anxiety depression. current perception nutrition within psychotherapy framed lifestyle, self-care enquiry a rich, metaphorical use digestive systems the therapeutic process. Yet over last two decades synthesis nutritional therapy with psychiatry has theorized network ideas under umbrella title ‘nutritional psychiatry’, which links positivist research suggest poor diet gut microbiome health are also factors development mental illnesses. differing epistemological positions in these fields create challenge case study used explores working psychotherapeutically client's choices, whilst interrogating whether psychiatric-derived theories relate client work incorporate psychotherapeutic practice.