Food School and Feeding Therapy

Helping children build safe, curious, and confident relationships with food.

About Food School and Feeding Therapy

Food isn’t just fuel—it’s a sensory adventure, a learning process, and sometimes, a bit of a battleground. Our Food School uses the SOS (Sequential-Oral-Sensory) approach combined with expertise in sensory processing, oral-motor learning, and emotional well-being. We help children who struggle with picky eating, food refusal, texture sensitivities, or limited food variety to explore, understand, and enjoy what’s on their plate. It’s compassionate, playful, and built for long-term success. Drawing on decades of clinical experience and real outcomes, we bring science into the kitchen in a way that makes sense and smells like yogurt finger‑painting. Wondering if food school is right for you. Learn more here.

Our Process

Initial Consultation

We begin with a parent or caregiver consultation to understand your child’s developmental history, current challenges, and goals. This helps us tailor the right approach for your child.

Assessment and Rapport Building

Initial sessions focus on building a trusting relationship with your child while observing how they engage in food. These observations guide our therapy planning.

Individual or Group Food School Sessions

Your child attends regular Food School sessions. We use evidence-approaches, including the SOS approach to feeding, whether it be 1:1 or in a Food School group.

Ongoing Support and Family Collaboration

We provide regular updates and collaborate with parents, whānau, and educators (where appropriate) to support progress across settings.

The benefits of Food School and Feeding Therapy

Instead of “eat or else,” children rediscover food, step by step, at their own pace. They will also develop confidence to make their own choices about food.

Textures, smells, and touches become less scary over time.

Less tension, more connection. Parents say it feels like we recalibrated the mealtime atmosphere.

More than just calories: we help kids explore enough variety to nourish their bodies—and their curiosity.

You’ll gain playful tools and language to keep progress going at home, so meals become learning spaces, not battlegrounds.

Our Food School and Feeding Therapy Team

Speech Language Therapist, Feeding Therapist

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