Does any of the following sounds familiar?
○ Family mealtimes are a power struggle, usually ending with someone in tears.
○ Your child fills up on snacks but barely touches dinner.
○ Your child's accepted foods are becoming increasingly limited—or there are only a handful of foods they'll reliably eat.
○ You’ve tried coaxing, bribing, everything you can think of and nothing has worked.
○ You’re tired of making separate meals for everyone.
○ You aren’t sure how to talk to your kids about food, weight, and body image without passing on diet culture.
You’ve come to the right place.
I’m here to help you raise confident eaters and turn down the stress at family mealtimes.
How I Can Support Your Family:
✓Navigate picky eating with confidence.
Understand what's behind selective eating, support food exploration without pressure, and help your child expand their food repertoire at their own pace.
✓ Make mealtimes more peaceful.
Create calmer, more predictable mealtimes with practical strategies that move your family away from food battles, bribing, and pressure to take just one more bite.
✓ Build confidence in your child's ability to eat.
Learn how to support your child's hunger and fullness cues while providing the structure and opportunities they need to get adequate nourishment.
✓ Raise kids who feel good about food and their bodies.
Learn how to talk about food, weight, and body differences in ways that foster body respect, reduce shame, and help children develop a more positive relationship with eating and their bodies.
✓ Put responsive feeding into practice.
Use the Division of Responsibility and responsive feeding principles to balance caregiver structure with your child's growing autonomy.
✓ Honor your individual child.
Develop feeding strategies that account for your child's developmental needs, sensory preferences, appetite, and temperament.
✓ Identify when advanced medical or feeding support is needed.
For children with severe food restriction, growth concerns, nutritional deficiencies, or significant sensory or feeding difficulties, responsive feeding strategies may need to be paired with medical assessment or additional feeding support.
A non-diet dietitian (and mom of two!) who gets it.
When I was pregnant, I thought feeding kids—especially as a dietitian—would be easy. Of course my kids would eat all the nutritious, colorful foods, and mealtimes would be sunshine and rainbows.
Ha!
The reality? Feeding kids can feel more like entering a war zone. We don't want to force them to eat, but also... can a three-year-old survive on Goldfish crackers alone?
We know that children are learning about food and their bodies from the very beginning, and that their experiences at mealtimes can shape those relationships. Sensory differences, neurodivergence, developmental stages, and the food messages they encounter in our diet-obsessed culture can all influence how children experience eating.
I love helping parents and caregivers make sense of these challenges. I provide education about children's developmental and nutritional needs alongside practical feeding strategies informed by the Division of Responsibility and responsive feeding principles.
My work in eating disorder recovery informs how I approach family feeding, too. I want to help parents support their children's nutritional needs while fostering trust, flexibility, and respect for their bodies—without passing on the food rules and body pressures so many of us grew up with.
Together, we'll work toward adequate nourishment, less stress around food, and mealtimes that support your child's growing confidence and autonomy.
