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Passionate – Dedicated – Professional
supporting families through difficult mealtimes
The Feeding Clinic supports families through stressful or difficult mealtimes with the aim of helping children enjoy food and create happy mealtimes. Our feeding team work with families by helping parents create a plan for confidence at home while also providing direct therapy which can help your child feel more comfortable around new food.
Conditions or concerns we help with
Stressful Mealtimes
- Babies finding it difficult to transition to solids
- Restricted eating including limited range of accepted foods or anxieties around new food
- Difficulties with biting/chewing/swallowing
Dietetic concerns including weight management, constipation, dietary intake and diagnoses requiring dietetic support
Daycare & Early Childhood Talks
Our therapists can provide workshops for Early Childhood educators, including:
- Friends with Food: Strategies for developing a healthy relationship with food in daycare centres
Mothers Group Talks
- Starting Solids
- Fussy Eating Group
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Feeding Clinic Team
Lauren is very passionate about helping families feel more confident in feeding their child. It is her passion to create a judgement free space where she can work with both the child and their parents to create a routine that develops not only skills and progress in a mealtime, but family joy as well.
BSc Occupational Therapy (hons).
PD:
- The Feeding Relationship and Eating Competence by Ellyn Satter
- Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding
- Babble and Munch: Infant Feeding Foundations
- Melanie Potock: Your Feeding Tool Kit
- Melanie Potock: The Anxious Eater
- Sandhya Menon: Autistic Affirming Care
- Responsive Feeding Therapy Conference
- Making Sense of Mealtimes
Lauren has worked in paediatrics since graduating OT in 2008. She quickly became interested in feeding and worked on various Government feeding teams in both disability and developmental delay. For the past seven years, Lauren has focused solely on feeding therapy and has extensive experience in working closely with families in this area. In 2022, Lauren joined Western Kids Health and set up the multi-disciplinary Feeding Clinic here.
Lauren has experience in working with children of a wide range of ages. She can support your family with babies who are finding it difficult to transition to solids, and fussy children of all ages from toddlerhood to late teens. She is able to support families who have a few questions on fussy eating and want to get on the right track, all the way to supporting children who only eat a couple of different foods.
Brooke is a caring and compassionate dietitian, working collaboratively with children and parents to develop practical and achievable solutions to their food and diet concerns. Brooke also works as part of the multidisplinary feeding team, helping toddlers through to teens to expand their diet and feel confident at mealtimes. Brooke’s ultimate aim is to alleviate the stress around food and make mealtimes an enjoyable experience.
BSC Nutrition, Masters of Dietetics,
- Certificate in Paediatric Nutrition and Dietetics Unit 1 – Royal Children’s Hospital
- Monash University Training – The Low FODMAP diet for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- ARFID Masterclass – Melanie Potock
Brooke graduated Curtain University in 2018, she worked with adults in the hospital and community settings before finding an interest in paediatrics. She has been part of the Western Kids Health team for 4 years.
Brooke also volunteers with the OnTrack program run by ADHD WA
Brooke’s area of special interests include:
- Fussy eating / food aversions
- Growth faltering / weight management
- Gastrointestinal issues (IBS, constipation)
Amelia’s approach to intervention is about empowering and upskilling families to support their children’s communication.
Amelia works with your child and your priorities and works hard to ensure therapy is tailored to your child.
Amelia’s therapy is always based around FUN and engaging activities so children feel excited and happy when coming to see her.
Graduated from Curtin University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science (Speech Pathology).
Professional Development in
- Sounds Write – First Rate Phonics
- Lidcombe Program- stuttering intervention
- Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding
- Talk 4 Writing Intervention
- Hanen – It Takes Two to Talk
Amelia possesses a comprehensive background in paediatric speech pathology, encompassing various presentations such as developmental delay and disability. Her expertise extends to specialized areas including spelling and literacy intervention, mealtimes, early intervention for children below 4 years of age, language skills encompassing both understanding and expression, stuttering, speech sound delay and disorder. Additionally, Amelia has garnered experience in supporting the assessment and prescription of alternative communication devices.
Prior to graduating from Curtin University, Amelia served as a disability support worker, offering invaluable assistance to a young family with a child experiencing disability. Following her graduation, she transitioned to a role as a sole trader within a private practice setting, honing her skills and expertise. Subsequently, Amelia transitioned to a paediatric NDIS provider, specialising in catering to children with vision impairments, further enriching her breadth of experience in paediatric speech pathology.
Amelia’s special areas of interest are within early intervention, specifically children who are ‘late talkers.’ She enjoys working closely with children and their family to ensure parents feel empowered to support their child’s communication. Amelia is passionate about making therapy meaning to each child and their family.
Kathryn Monaco provides a sensitive and engaging therapy space for children to develop their skills to cope and adjust to life changes. Kathryn has a rich knowledge of attachment, development, neurodiversity and mental health in children. Through play and conversation, Kathryn works with the child to develop their self awareness and problem solving skills to grow!
Kathryn enjoys working with parents in supporting their parenting journey, and widening their understanding of their child’s needs. Kathryn works collaboratively with medical and health specialists, and educators to assist with a child’s treatment plan. Kathryn frames her child session’s based on the child’s age and ability using the following treatment approaches: cognitive behaviour therapy, dialectical behavioural therapy, acceptance commitment therapy.
Matilda takes a multidisciplinary approach to care, working closely with other health professionals to create positive and meaningful mealtime experiences. She is especially passionate about creating safe and supportive environments where children can feel confident exploring food.
Outside of work, you’ll find Matilda enjoying time at the beach or out and about with her friendly Labrador, Billie.
She later discovered a passion for working in the disability sector, where she has supported clients from toddlers to adults to achieve a variety of nutrition goals. Matilda’s experience spans across home, community, and clinic-based settings, where she has worked collaboratively with families and other professionals to deliver holistic and practical nutrition support.
· Fussy eating and mealtime support
· Coeliac disease management
· Growth faltering and weight management
She is passionate about helping families feel confident around mealtimes and building positive, long-term habits that support both nutrition and wellbeing.
Rowena’s approach to therapy is playful, warm and responsive.
Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing science)
- Key Word Sign presenter
- ACT therapy
- Babble and Munch Foundations of Feeding Training
- SOS feeding
- Hanen Training (It takes two to talk, More than Words, Talkability)
- Complex Trauma Training
- Secret Agent Society Social Skills Facilitator
- Jasper and ESDM introductory level
Outside of work, Rowena can be found on the tennis court, at her pottery wheel or trying to coax friends and family into playing board games with her!
Passionate – Dedicated – Professional
Passionate – Dedicated – Professional
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