Feeding Therapy
Support for picky eaters and children with feeding challenges. Help your child develop a healthy, positive relationship with food through gentle, child-led approaches.
What Is Feeding Therapy?
Feeding therapy helps children who struggle with eating — whether it's limited food preferences, difficulty with textures, oral motor challenges, or anxiety around mealtimes. Our goal is to help your child feel safe and comfortable with food.
We use the SOS Approach to Feeding, a gentle, child-led method that helps children explore food at their own pace. There's no forcing, no pressure — just gradual, positive exposure.
Feeding challenges are more common than many parents realize, and they can be stressful for the whole family. We're here to help.
Is This Right for Your Child?
Your child might benefit from feeding therapy if they:
- •Eat a very limited range of foods (fewer than 20 foods)
- •Refuse entire food groups or textures
- •Gag, cry, or become anxious around new foods
- •Have difficulty chewing or swallowing certain textures
- •Make mealtimes stressful for the whole family
Help for Picky Eaters
If your child only eats a handful of foods, refuses to try anything new, or melts down at mealtimes, you're not alone. Picky eating is one of the most common reasons families come to us for feeding therapy.
Picky eating can look different for every child. Some children stick to a small list of "safe" foods and refuse everything else. Others may avoid entire textures, colors, or food groups. Some children may have eaten well as babies but became more selective as toddlers.
Whatever it looks like for your family, we take a gentle, no-pressure approach. We never force children to eat. Instead, we help them build comfort and curiosity around food at their own pace.
Common Signs of Picky Eating
- Only eating 20 or fewer foods
- Refusing foods based on color, texture, or brand
- Gagging or crying when new foods are on the plate
- Dropping foods they used to eat
- Mealtimes that feel like a battle every day
Our Approach
We use the SOS Approach to Feeding, which builds comfort through gradual, playful exposure. Children learn to interact with food through looking, touching, smelling, and tasting — at their own pace.
What to Expect
Sessions are play-based and low-pressure. Your child explores food in a safe, supportive environment. We work with you to carry strategies into mealtimes at home so progress continues between sessions.
For Parents
Picky eating can feel isolating. We help you understand why your child eats the way they do and give you practical tools to reduce mealtime stress for the whole family.
How We Work Together
Understand the Challenge
We evaluate your child's feeding history, sensory preferences, and oral motor skills to understand what's making mealtimes difficult.
Gentle Exploration
Using the SOS Approach, we help your child explore food through play — touching, smelling, and interacting with food at their own pace, with no pressure to eat.
Build Comfort
Over time, your child becomes more comfortable with new foods and textures. We celebrate every step forward, no matter how small.
Support Your Family
We teach you strategies to make mealtimes less stressful at home. Feeding therapy works best when the whole family feels supported.
Mealtime Can Feel Different
If mealtimes have become stressful, you don't have to keep pushing through alone. Tell us what's happening and we'll help.
Tell Us About Your Child