Feeding Challenges

Feeding is more than nutrition—it’s relationship, regulation, and rhythm. When a child struggles with feeding, it can be overwhelming, confusing, and deeply emotional for everyone involved.

I support infants and children who experience challenges with bottle or breast feeding, transitioning to solids, oral aversions, gagging, reflux, picky eating, or food refusal. These difficulties often reflect more than a surface issue—they may point to underlying patterns in the nervous system, sensory processing, or postural development.

 

In this work, I address feeding through a whole-body, neurodevelopmental lens—looking at how reflexes, muscle tone, and nervous system states affect oral motor coordination and comfort.

 

This approach supports:

• Infants who struggle with suck-swallow-breathe coordination

• Toddlers and young children with ongoing oral sensitivities or avoidance

• Children who were tube-fed or experienced medical trauma

• Feeding concerns that haven’t responded to traditional therapy alone

• Families seeking a gentler, more integrative approach

 

Together, we work toward creating a safe, connected experience of eating, helping children develop internal trust and capacity, not just external compliance.