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Improving family mealtimes,

one bite at a time.

For a parent, the struggle to cope with a child’s feeding disorders can lead to increased parental stress, feelings of inadequacy in their parenting skills, and negative parent child relationships. That’s where we come in. With multiple levels of service, tailored to your support needs, location and availability, we can be on hand to lend a helping hand. Find out more about our Online Learning Course, One Bite at a Time, as well as our In Person Therapy Services, below.

 one size does not fit all.

In Person Therapy

We work with children that suffer from feeding disorders, or struggle with mealtimes, but what exactly is a feeding disorder?

A pediatric feeding disorder can range in severity. Often this refers to a child’s inability or refusal to eat and/or drink sufficient quantities or types of food to provide appropriate nutrition for their age. Over time, if left untreated, this may compromise a child’s physical development.

At West Coast Feeding, our Specialists work with you through an individualized step by step program, that gives your child structure and direction to help with their specific feeding needs. Our goal is to teach your child how to have a happy and healthy relationship with food.

Online Course

For the past 15 years, we have dedicated our time and effort to developing an intensive in person model of service for families of children with severe feeding difficulties. Despite our successes, we recognize that this level of support is not accessible to everyone that needs help. For some families, cost or access to in person treatment prohibits them from getting help. And for others, the challenges they face with their child’s eating, although concerning, do not warrant the need for intensive therapy. Because of this, we created our online learning course “One Bite at a Time” to help those families who either don’t need or can’t afford intensive therapy.

Our Online Course is designed for parents and caregivers who want to add variety into their child’s diet. We walk you through our techniques step by step, with our downloadable workbook, alongside video tutorials and one-on-one support via Zoom with our therapists.

  • “We hired Lauren to help get our 2 year old son off a g-tube. He had been tube fed since birth. Before Lauren’s program, he didn’t drink anything, and ate four Cheerios a day if we were lucky. Within a few weeks, he was accepting spoonfuls of food. A few months after that, we no longer needed gastric tube feedings. I can honestly say this was one of the best things we did for our son. Lauren was very knowledgable and professional, and her plan was supported by research in the academic field. She was available for questions and gave us the support we needed to ensure success. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Lauren and her team of professionals.”

    Jim & Cindy

  • “From the age of 6 months, our son Leighton always struggled with the introduction of solid foods and by 11months his growth curve had plummeted from the 50th percentile down to the 3rd percentile. After endless physical tests and procedures our occupational therapist suggested we contact Lauren for help. Within the first few days we started seeing an improvement in Leighton’s willingness to accept food and although it was slow going, Lauren and Heather were able to not only increase his caloric intake but also introduce new foods to his diet. They are extremely professional, friendly, approachable and understood our expectations as parents. We would happily recommend Lauren and Heather to anyone who might be struggling with similar feeding challenges”

    Rich & Heike

  • “Nathan is our son who has autistic spectrum disorder. At the age of 7.5 years, he had a severely restricted diet of specific baby food jars, baby cereal, yogurt, and applesauce. Although Nathan had various therapies since he was three years old, and had made progress in behaviour, communication and toileting, he was very resistant to any changes to his eating. Nathan’s improvement over the next three months was absolutely astounding, as he could now eat over twenty different real foods from all food groups. Not only are they effective feeding therapists, Lauren and Christine have also been spot on establishing communication with us with timely updates and reviews."

    Flora & Leo Wong

  • We contacted Lauren to help us get our 5 year old son to begin to eat and hopefully begin the journey to get him off his G Tube. We had a very unique experience being that we live in Northern British Columbia and there are no services like this where we live. We contacted and met with Lauren and worked out an Intensive Therapy Program over a one week period where we travelled to Vancouver to start our journey. Lauren, Christine and Heather are so wonderful and easy to work with. We would highly recommend them to anyone. If you are thinking about getting started don’t wait. It will change your life; it has changed ours!”

    Daleste, Blair & Hayden

Find out more about us…

Our team’s primary goal is to improve child behaviour in home and community routines. To this end, we consult closely with parents and other professionals to develop evidenced-based behavioural interventions that are both effective and acceptable. We work with a variety of cases to help transform children’s relationship with food and work towards a healthier. happier child.

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let’s talk.

If you want to talk with a member of our team, then check out our available Discovery Call times via our booking portal. This is a completely free service and a time for you to ask questions and see how we can help you. Just select a time that suits you, answer our intake questions, and we will do the rest.

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