Let’s Eat! Feeding Therapy helps children in Edmonton, St. Albert, Spruce Grove, and throughout Alberta develop the skills they need to create a happy experience for everyone!
Let’s Eat! Feeding Therapy specializes in supporting families in Edmonton, St. Albert, Spruce Grove, and Alberta, in experiencing mealtime stress by providing pediatric feeding therapy to bring the fun back to feeding.
Feeding therapy helps children develop the skills necessary for successful eating, and helps families create happy, healthy mealtime experiences.
Therapy may include
Feeding therapy is for children of all ages (0-18) who are picky eaters, messy eaters, slow eaters, or fussy eaters.
Common groups that benefit from feeding therapy include
Curious if your family would benefit from feeding therapy? Take the Feeding Matters Infant and Child Feeding Questionnaire
If your child is not eating, it will negatively impact their health. Improving your child’s ability to eat well improves their health, digestion, sleep, peer relationships and provides more access to social opportunities.
Let’s Eat! Feeding Therapy supports families with children who are struggling to eat by making mealtime fun for everyone.
In feeding, the parent chooses what foods to serve, and where and when they’ll serve them. Your child chooses which foods they like and how much they’ll eat.
Description: Our first visit will be a virtual session between the therapist, the parents or caregivers, and the child (if they are over 12 years old and interested in receiving the service). During this session, we will discuss your child’s feeding and eating challenges, and will develop a treatment plan for your needs.
Description: During each follow-up session, we will continue to support families to adjust expectations and learn more about their children’s eating habits. We will also support your children by building their eating skills and becoming more engaged in feeding to bring back connection during mealtime.
Please note: home visits are only available for Edmonton and surrounding areas. Feeding therapy can be provided on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis. Most of our visits are 60 minutes, but we have also have 120 minute visits available.
Let’s Eat! Feeding Therapy is a feeding therapy practice owned and operated by an Occupational Therapist who specializes in pediatric feeding therapy. We dedicate our time and resources to being the best option for your child’s feeding therapy needs.
Many clients seek out feeding therapy to help their children with
Food is so much more than fuel. Food is a way we express love, appreciation, and empathy. Food provides comfort and sparks conversation. It ties us to our memories, our cultures, and our family. So, when we are struggling with eating, we are missing out on more than nutrients, we are missing out on opportunities for connection and connection goes both ways. When our child is struggling to eat, we as a family are missing out on the opportunity to connect.
Jenalyn
Jenalyn understands the challenges of being a new mom. Struggling to understand why her newborn son was still hungry after feeding, she looked for help from experts. She was surprised at how little support and resources were available for new parents in Edmonton. She decided to complete additional education and use her skills as an occupational therapist to become the feeding therapist that her son, and community, needed.
Jenalyn completed a Bachelor of Physical Education in 2014 and a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy in 2017. She has over six years of experience as an occupational therapist and has experience in community and school-based pediatrics.
Professional development:
Jenalyn understands that it can be devastating as a parent when you feel like you cannot properly feed your child. Whether it’s a baby refusing the bottle, a toddler gagging on solid foods, or a teenager who only eats four foods – when we see our children struggling to eat, we feel like we failed them. She is committed to supporting her clients, and their families, in achieving their goals and strengthening their relationships.
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