Debra Borden

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Published by: Alcove Press
Release Date: Oct 14, 2025
Pages: 320
ISBN13: 979-8892422031

 

 

Overview

Learn how to harness the power of cooking therapy, a powerful tool to improve self-esteem, form healthy habits, and cultivate calm, with recipes and step-by-step instructions.

In Cooking As Therapy, licensed clinical social worker and Sous Therapist Debra Borden provides you with all the tools and techniques to have multiple therapy sessions in the comfort of your own kitchen.

Using her simple yet powerful 3M curriculum, Borden will help you develop the skills to face whatever life brings you, including recognizing limiting patterns and behaviors, improving self-esteem, and forming healthy daily habits. She does this using techniques centered around mindfulness–which develops calm, metaphor–which creates clarity, and mastery–which sparks self-esteem.

Luckily, you don’t have to be a great cook to try cooking therapy–and you don’t even have to love cooking. . Because cooking therapy is experiential and guided, you just have to have an interest in self-exploration and self-expression. The processes involved in preparing a recipe or meal will trigger “aha” moments in a different way than traditional therapy. It is less about what you prepare and more of a guided journey to self-reflection through how you prepare a dish. Unlike talk therapy, emotional processing, creativity, and reflection are all contributors to a successful cooking therapy session.

In Cooking As Therapy, you’ll find:

● Expert advice: Debra Borden is a pioneer of cooking therapy and a licensed clinical social worker with decades of experience. She understands the power of cooking therapy and how it can help you live a happier life.
● An individualized approach to self-care: Cooking therapy helps you focus on specific issues in the time you have available. This book helps you create a process that works best for you and your life.
● Accessible instructions: Borden’s straightforward and easy-to-follow instructions make cooking therapy easy.
● Easy-to-follow recipes: Recipes are simple, and range from just 5 minutes to one hour.

Debra Borden is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in NY and NJ and a novelist. Her essays and articles have appeared in Women’s Health Magazine and the New York Times. A pioneer in the field of cooking therapy, Debra is thrilled and grateful to be a part of the creative community of mental health professionals, writers, and foodies.