Holistic Approach
My holistic approach integrates nutrition, development, and nurturing to create a comprehensive feeding therapy experience for your child.
Evidence-Based Techniques
My practice is rooted in evidence-based techniques and strategies, ensuring the highest standard of care and optimal outcomes for your child's feeding journey.
Comprehensive Evaluation
My holistic approach integrates nutrition, development, and nurturing to create a comprehensive feeding therapy experience for your child.
Unlocking Joyful Feeding Journeys for Babies & Toddlers
Starr Feeding Therapy specializes in evaluating and treating infants and toddlers facing a range of feeding difficulties, from oral motor difficulties and poor weight gain to transitioning between breast and bottle. Additionally, I provide support with transitioning to solid foods, managing picky eating, developing personalized feeding plans, offering expert techniques and positioning guidance, incorporating oral motor exercises when needed, conducting in-home therapy consultations, and empowering parents through education and training.
Services
At Starr Feeding Therapy, I offer a comprehensive range of services tailored to support new moms and address a variety of feeding challenges in infants and toddlers.
Holistic Evaluation & Treatment
I address feeding challenges in infants and toddlers like lack of interest, oral motor difficulties, bottle aversion, or limited weight gain.
Navigating Picky Eating
Tackling limited food acceptance with tailored strategies.
Targeted Oral Motor Exercises
If necessary, incorporating exercises to enhance oral motor skills.
Breast to Bottle Transition
Supporting infants in transitioning smoothly from breast to bottle feeding.
Personalized Feeding Plans
Crafting comprehensive plans for your child's unique needs.
In-Home Consultations
Bringing our expertise to the comfort of your home.
Smooth Transition to Solids
Guiding the exciting journey from purees to solid foods and cup independence.
Expert Techniques & Positioning
Optimizing feeding experiences through specialized techniques and positioning.
Empowering Parents
Optimizing feeding experiences through specialized techniques and positioning.
- Amanda S.
Nicole was an absolute pleasure to work with. In a few short months, Nicole was able to address and remedy my six year old daughter’s extreme picky eating and anxiety around food and mealtimes. After working with Nicole, my daughter’s identity with food shifted. She used to identify as a picky eater and used that identity as a crutch to not eat or try new foods. The other day, my daughter commented, “I’m a good eater; I eat a lot now.” This is a major success I accredit to Nicole. Thank you Nicole!
- Anabela F.
My 12-week-old exclusively breastfed baby wasn't taking a bottle despite weeks of futile attempts. I tried it all, including trialing her on multiple bottle types and seeking advice from mom friends and lactation consultants. As my return to work date crept closer and the need to get her to bottle feed became imminent I decided to bite the bullet and contact a feeding specialist-- I'm so glad I did. Nicole was able to make house calls scheduled around my baby's feed/sleep schedule. She helped us identify the causes of the bottle aversion, which was a conditioned response, and used effective behavioral and positional strategies to resolve it. After just a few sessions, my baby now takes a bottle effortlessly. I will always refer anyone dealing with bottle refusal/aversion to Nicole.
- Alyx D.
Nicole was amazing and responded promptly to my email to discuss my concerns about my daughter. She is thoughtful and intelligent in the area of feeding and swallowing for infants. She provided me with wonderful suggestions and eloquently delivered the information I needed!
