Whether you’re a CF-SLP curious about ARFID, a seasoned SLP navigating AAC + feeding or a feeding therapist wanted to increase your knowledge in trauma-informed care…I’m here to support you with the tools you didn’t know you needed.
Are you ready to see pediatric feeding and communication from a brand new lens?
Does this sound familiar?
You’re deeply committed to your feeding clients but craving more than surface-level solutions.
Maybe you’ve felt…
The feeding strategies you learned don’t quite fit the children in front of you
Unsure how to integrate trauma-informed care into your plan of care
Torn between clinical checklists and connection-based care
Let’s reframe feeding and communication together.
Imagine if...
You had a lens to make sense of the complex feeding profiles on your large caseload.
You felt confident coaching caregivers and setting ND-affirming goals for your families.
You knew how to integrate AAC, sensory and trauma-informed strategies into feeding therapy.
Pediatric Feeding Courses
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Nourishing Meaningful Mealtimes
This introductory course is designed for caregivers and clinicians seeking joyful, trauma-informed strategies to support neurodivergent children with feeding differences. In 3 hours of bite-sized lessons, you’ll explore the foundations of trauma-informed feeding therapy, learn playful approaches to make mealtime meaningful, and gain practical tips to reduce mealtime stress. The course includes an ebook and access to live Q&A sessions after completion, offering a space to grow your network and deepen your understanding.
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Building a Neurodiversity-Affirming and Trauma-Informed Lens for Goal Writing
This course is perfect for SLPs ready to shift how they approach goals — beyond checklists and toward transformation. You’ll explore 4+ hours of bite-sized lessons on ND-affirming and trauma-informed care, assessments, and writing goals across communication, social emotional, and feeding domains. Includes a mealtime literacy primer and a goal bank with 20+ feeding and 30+ communication/social emotional examples. On-demand access + optional live Q&A.
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Nourishing Connection: Trauma-Informed and Play-Based Feeding Therapy
This comprehensive course supports you in providing authentic, trauma-informed feeding therapy for neurodivergent and medically complex clients. Through 18 hours of ASHA CEU credits, you’ll engage with a weekly live lecture plus dedicated office hours for additional questions if you’re unable to join live. You’ll gain access to a supportive group for ongoing discussion and receive a 50+ page ebook filled with valuable resources, including a goal bank.
Coaching For Therapists That Meets You Where You Are
Are you looking for 1:1 help with a case?
Do you want feedback that honors your clinical thinking?
Are you looking for education for your clinic or organization that is trauma-informed? I offer 1:1 mentorship grounded in empathy and experience.
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Learn how to center safety, connection and caregiver relationships while addressing feeding goals with compassion.
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Understand the nuances of complex feeding challenges and how to tailor interventions that go beyond the basics.
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Explore how AAC can support communication during mealtimes and empower children in feeding routines.
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Discover how to use play and attunement as your foundation for therapy that truly honors the whole child.
Where You’ve Seen Me
Trusted By Organizations Nationwide
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ASHA Conferences
Trauma-Informed Feeding Therapy: Healing with Families at the Table
Building Communication and Body Autonomy for Medically Complex Children (with DIR/Floortime and TIC)
PFD in the Natural Environment: Advocating and Collaborating for Families
ICDL Floortime International Conference
Building Communication and Body Autonomy for Medically Complex Children
Trauma-Informed Feeding Therapy
Other Conferences & Webinars
SCSHA (South Carolina Speech and Hearing Association)
SC OT Conference
LSHA (Louisiana Speech and Hearing Association)
Invited to PSHA and Indiana Speech and Hearing Association
SpeechTherapyPD Webinars
Different Bites for Different Brains: ND Affirming Feeding Therapy
ND Affirming Goal Writing
Attachment and Infant Feeding: An SLP's Role in Mental Health
GLP and Feeding
Play-Based Language Treatment for the Medically Complex Child
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First Bite Podcast – Co-host with 2.2+ million downloads
Featured on:
Affect Autism Podcast
The Autism Little Learners Podcast
Let Them Lead: The Child-Led Autism Podcast
This Speech Life Podcast
Brainstorms: Functional Neurorehab for SLPs
Quoted in Bloomberg Business Week
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Georgia State University – Feeding
James Madison University – DIR/Floortime and Trauma-Informed Therapy