Nourishing Connection Mentorship Experience
Nourishing Connection Mentorship Experience
A Trauma-Informed & Play-Based Feeding Therapy Mentorship
A live, relational mentorship for clinicians seeking ethical, neurodiversity-affirming, and sustainable feeding therapy practices.
9 live sessions • 18+ hours • Free mentorship hours included
🍴 Individual mentorship sessions offered throughout course
🍴 Access to group for continued questions and learning outside of class
Welcome to your supportive learning community 𐂐
Welcome to your supportive learning community 𐂐
WHO THIS IS FOR
This mentorship is for you if you are a clinician who:
Feels the tension between medical models and relational care
Works with pediatric feeding and wants a trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming framework
Wants to move beyond “techniques” and into clinical decision-making
Is seeking language that supports families without coercion or shame
Wants feeding therapy to feel grounded, ethical, and sustainable
*This space welcomes curiosity, reflection, and honest clinical questions.
Feedback From Members…
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
This is not a passive course.
Nourishing Connection is a mentorship experience.
It centers:
Relationship over compliance
Clinical reasoning over protocols
Safety, play, and dignity over outcomes alone
Alongside nine live sessions, participants are invited to attend free mentorship hours throughout the course for:
Case consultation
Implementation support
Reflection and integration
This structure allows learning to unfold in real time — with space for nuance, questions, and growth.
What's Included...
What's Included...
COURSE OVERVIEW
Session themes include:
Pediatric Feeding Disorders & interdisciplinary collaboration
Trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming care
Therapeutic use of self, counseling, and caregiver coaching
Feeding, attachment, and mental health
Play, sensory processing, AAC, and DIR/Floortime
Floortime, Autism, and food literacy
Medically Complex children and cases and decision making
Case studies and trauma-informed goal writing
Full schedule available upon registration.
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Investment
$695
This reflects:
Live instruction
Ongoing mentorship access
Relational, case-based learning
Payment plans available.
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Why is this offered without ASHA CEUs?
This mentorship is offered independently to preserve flexibility, depth, and relational learning.
Without CEU requirements, we are able to:
Offer additional free mentorship hours
Spend more time on discussion and case consultation
Explore nuance, ethics, and clinician identity
Adapt to the needs of the group in real time
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About Erin Forward
Erin Forward, MSP, CCC-SLP, CLC is a speech-language pathologist specializing in pediatric feeding therapy. Her work is grounded in trauma-informed care, DIR/Floortime, attachment, and neurodiversity-affirming practice.
Erin has worked across medical and community settings and brings a deeply relational lens to feeding therapy, mentorship, and caregiver support. Through Nourishing Connection, she creates learning spaces that honor complexity, ethics, and the human experience of care.
Ready to Join?
Nourishing Connection is designed for clinicians who want their feeding therapy practice to feel aligned, grounded, and deeply human.