Hayley North & Kirsten Chick talk food, community and wellbeing with Susie Cunningham of The Flourish Kitchen.
With recipe, cooking and nutrition tips from Hayley and Kirsten.

Susie Cunningham is a therapeutic wellbeing practitioner working with children and young people, from disadvantaged backgrounds in inner city London.

Susie has worked within the charity sector for many years, including projects overseas in India and Spain.

She also worked with ‘kids company’ from 2011 - 2015:  Here Susie started out as a keyworker, and saw an opportunity to get involved with the food and cooking side, where things literally ‘flourished’ from there. She instigated change in how cooking was approached and taught, bringing her therapeutic approach to the programmes. She ended up creating 5 after school clubs per week, a Friday night teenagers group, a mums group and a baking group.

Susie then went on to train at the Institute of Art Therapy in Education and has centered her therapeutic work with young people, around her love and passion for food.

Susie also founded a network of wellbeing practitioners, who all work with at risk children through therapeutic mediums, called The Flourish Kitchen. Here she combines the roots and principles of integrative art psychotherapy and youth work, with food education.