Nourish Feeding Therapy

Leading specialists in paediatric feeding challenges

 

Nourish Therapists tailor each therapy approach to your child’s individual needs. We identify the underlying delay in feeding skills and together with your family take the stress out of mealtimes to make it a positive experience. Using therapeutic activities to reduce anxiety and increase food acceptance. Each program is delivered in the comfort of your home. 

 

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Welcome to Nourish

Feeding challenges are stressful and take their toll on the whole whānau, we are here to walk with you on the journey to creating pleasant, enjoyable kai times.

We incorporate concepts of Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Child Development, Neuroscience, Trauma Impacts and Feeding Therapy to provide an individualized approach to therapy. 

Offering 1-1 in home specialists assessment, therapy, and support within your home environment or via teletherapy.

‘Te hanga tahi i nga wa kai pai’

Who would benefit from feeding therapy

Who we can help: 

  • Challenging eating patterns including refusing new foods, repeating preferred foods, and preferring the same textured and coloured foods.

  • Restrictive and selective eating (for toddlers to young adolescents). 

  • Refusal and behavioural challenges towards new and preferred foods. 

  • Sensory processing difficulties related to touch, smell, and taste of new foods. 

  • Feeding challenges associated with developmental diagnosis, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), Global Developmental Delay (GDD), genetic conditions etc.

  • Children/adolescents with food related anxiety, impacting and restricting their food choices. 

  • Children/adolescents who have experienced trauma (developmental and medical) impacting their mealtimes, food choices and ability to eat. 

  • Food refusal subsequent to prior nasal gastric tube feeding and/or NICU admission during early years.

  • Medical complications (gastroenteritis, reflux) or surgical intervention resulting in food refusal. 

  • Restricted diets, a result of allergy complications. 

  • Caregiver support with managing the impact of the child’s challenges on their own mental wellbeing.

  • Challenging introduction to solids (gagging, vomiting, trouble gaining weight and progressing textures)

We would be utterly stranded without all of the guidance that Rebecca (Nourish) gives us. Our appointments are helpful, supportive and extremely thorough. Rebecca is very knowledgeable, kind and creative. I can’t recommend her and Nourish highly enough.

Juliet, Mother

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