Dietitians and Nutritionists for Children
Nourish & Thrive offers individualised assessment, education, and ongoing support for nutrition for a wide range of needs, both children and adults.
Each of our dietitians has particular specialty areas and experience to offer. When you call to book an appointment, we will help you be matched with the dietitian best suited to your needs.
How we help children
Our paediatric dietitians are highly skilled and all have received training from some of the largest paediatric centres in Australia including the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick. They love working with both children and their families to build positive and joyful relationships with mealtimes and eating, whether your child eats by mouth or through a feeding tube.
We take a very careful and considered, trauma-informed approach to exploring childhood nutrition, to make sure that children feel safe and supported at all times. Sometimes this means working with parents alone, particularly when there is a weight concern or high stress meal times.
What we can help your child with
We can help you with:
Autism & eating difficulties
ADHD & nutrition
Meeting your child’s nutritional needs
Complex feeding difficulties including ARFID
Complex health conditions affecting nutrition and growth
Constipation
Diagnosed food allergies
Fussy eating
Gastrointestinal conditions (eg Coeliac Disease; IBS; IBD)
Growth acceleration / weight concern
Growth faltering and malnutrition
Insulin resistance
Nutritional deficiency/ies
Texture modified diets
Tube feeding including blenderised tube feeding
Responsive Feeding Therapy
In keeping with our trauma-informed, neurodiversity affirming and inclusive approaches our paediatric dietitians are trained in and utilise a responsive feeding framework for managing significant eating difficulties.
We can help you with:
Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
When traditional feeding therapy has failed
When ‘exposure’ therapy has caused a child to regress
Improving family mealtimes and feeding relationships
Specific eating difficulties in autism and neurodivergent children
Follow this link to learn more about Responsive Feeding Therapy: https://responsivefeedingpro.com/about-rft/