Get personalized 1:1 nutrition counselling
and have your feeding problems
solved once and for all
One-on-one nutrition counselling to solve feeding issues surrounding:
- Starting solids (with purees or finger foods)
- Excessive gagging/sensory/texture aversions
- Picky eating prevention (transitioning from babyhood to toddlerhood)
- Reversing picky and selective eating
- Poor mealtime behaviour or routines
- Nutrient or growth concerns (under/overweight)
- Meal planning and recipes
- Food allergies and intolerances
- Tube weaning and transitioning to eating by mouth
- Constipation, low iron etc.
- Feeding sessions/feeding therapy
What you’ll get from working
with us
- 1:1 guidance and an individualized plan to tackle your child's more in-depth feeding issues
- 1 hour initial consultation for a complete review of your child's struggles, feeding history, nutritional history (& analysis of a 3 day food record), medical history (blood work, growth charts etc.), lifestyle, barriers and strengths.
- Follow up sessions to troubleshoot, educate some more, set new goals and continue seeing progress (the number of follow ups depends on the package you choose)
- Resources, recipes, & plans as needed to get you on the right track
- Lifetime access to our industry-leading baby and toddler feeding online courses
- Email support in between sessions to answer questions as they come up
HOW IT WORKS
our style, philosophy, strategy
#1. Create a plan &
set initial goals
After your initial consultation and assessing all the factors, we’ll come up with a strategic plan for how to best achieve your overarching goals. We will prioritize different needs (nutritional needs, reducing stress at the table, mealtime behaviour, etc.) and set you up with some initial goals right off the bat to get you going for the week. You will get a written summary of your child’s assessment and plan as well.
#2. Educate & troubleshoot to keep you on track
Follow up sessions will be used to assess how you did with your assigned goals and answer any questions. We’ll troubleshoot any issues, and then provide further education to build on your knowledge and skills. We work in a step-by-step manner – laying the foundations for success first – and once that’s acheived – can then move into teaching all the little tips & tricks that will work only after the foundations are laid.
#3. Set new goals, progress
& see results!
As you gain progress and momentum, you will move onto new goals, expand in your knowledge and confidence in feeding, and you will be seeing lots of progress! With consistency in goal application and lots of hand-holding and accountability from us, you will see more and more results with each session.
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*All services are tax exempt (you do not need to pay HST to see a registered dietitian)
frequently asked questions
Registered Dietitians are covered under most health insurance plans in Canada. Most group insurance plans including Manulife, Blue Cross, Sunlife, GreatWest Life, Green Shield and more.
Tip: Most health insurance and extended healthcare benefits plans follow the calendar year schedule, meaning they begin on January 1st and end on December 31st, of the given year. If you haven’t used your dietitian coverage yet, be sure to take advantage before the year is up and your benefits reset!
Note: Packages are considered family sessions and appointments can be billed separately for each family member. This means you can combine coverage from each family member to cover a full package cost.
Although we can’t direct bill, we can provide you with receipts to submit directly to your insurance company. If you don’t have coverage, the cost of your appointments are considered a tax-deductible expense that you can claim.
We offer virtual consultations to meet you where you are – comfortable in your own home or meeting place of choice! Feel free to show up in your sweats, with your little one in your arms, camera off or on. If you live in Halifax and we identify a need to do an in-person feeding session, assessment or feeding therapy, we will offer you the option as part of or in-addition to your package.
In most cases, there is no need for your child to be present, as the education and implementation is done for and through the parents. In fact, for older toddlers and pre-schoolers, we prefer that your child is not present during the initial assessment, so we can speak freely about their feeding habits without worrying about them holding onto “picky eater” labels or discussions about their weight. That being said, if you don’t have child-care – no worries 🙂 We are experienced with handling these discussions sensitively 🙂
Your child only needs to be present if we identify the need to do a feeding assessment of the mealtime environment/dynamics. We have the ability to assess feeding skills or mealtimes through submission of recorded video sessions. All this will be instructed to you during or after your initial assessment as part of your individualized plan.
We recommend booking a free discovery call with one of our dietitians to chat about your particular struggles and challenges, understand what you’ve tried and what you need further help with, and to get to know your dietitian and her process. We can then recommend an appropriate service/package option based on your situation and make sure you have some options to move forward with.
Payments can be made via email money transfer or by credit card. After booking a session or package, you will receive an email within 24 hours to discuss your invoicing/receipts requests and to make payment arrangements. Payments are due 24 hours before your first appointment and packages are due in full upfront (with receipts provided right away so you can submit for reimbursement from insurance).
No problem! We offer add-on options for more than one child or for total family nutrition needs. Just book a discovery call and we can let you know after chatting in more detail, what that would look like for your specific situation 🙂
Sure! If you’re ok with not meeting your dietitian first over video, send us an email to [email protected] and we can help you navigate counselling options that way 🙂
