Feeding a growing child can get complicated fast—especially when selective eating, digestive symptoms, food allergies, sports, busy schedules, or body image enter the picture. Our Registered Dietitians help children, teens, and parents build realistic routines that support growth, energy, confidence, and a more peaceful relationship with food.
Every child has different needs, preferences, challenges, and developmental stages. Families come to us for help making sense of concerns such as:
Nutrition is connected to growth, development, digestion, energy, emotions, sensory experiences, school, activities, and family life. We bring those pieces together before recommending a plan.
We create individualized nutrition care that respects your child’s needs while giving parents and caregivers clear, realistic support. We do not use shame, pressure, or one-size-fits-all meal plans.
A detailed review of growth, eating patterns, accepted foods, symptoms, medical history, laboratory results, medications, supplements, routines, activity, and family concerns.
Recommendations built around your child’s age, nutritional needs, preferences, culture, medical needs, schedule, and current ability—not an idealized version of how a child “should” eat.
Practical structure for breakfasts, school lunches, after-school snacks, dinners, sports, weekends, travel, and other situations your family actually navigates.
Low-pressure, developmentally appropriate support for increasing familiarity with foods and expanding variety over time when appropriate.
Clear guidance for creating supportive routines, reducing mealtime conflict, responding to selective eating, and deciding how to handle food across caregivers or households.
With permission, coordination with pediatricians, gastroenterologists, allergists, therapists, occupational therapists, schools, coaches, or other members of the child’s care team when appropriate.
The CALM Method helps our dietitians understand the connections between nutrition, physical health, emotions, routines, and family life—while keeping the child’s development and individual needs at the center.
Understanding your child’s appetite, preferences, symptoms, sensory experiences, emotions, and communication around food—without shame or pressure.
Connecting nutrition care with growth, development, medical needs, family values, culture, preferences, and recommendations from the broader care team.
Creating realistic routines for meals, snacks, hydration, sleep, school, sports, family schedules, and time together.
Supporting age-appropriate body awareness, responsive eating, emotional regulation, and movement that feels positive rather than punitive.
Nutrition care should change as children grow, gain independence, and move through different stages of life.
Support for selective eating, food exploration, nutritional adequacy, digestive symptoms, and calmer mealtime routines—with parents and caregivers guiding the process.
Practical care for growth, energy, concentration, school lunches, snacks, allergies, digestive concerns, activities, and increasing confidence around food.
Direct, respectful support for greater independence, changing nutritional needs, hormones, sports, busy schedules, digestive symptoms, body image, and the skills needed for adulthood. When an adolescent eating disorder is a concern, care is provided by our specially trained eating-disorder dietitians.
There is no single definition of progress. Depending on your child and your family’s goals, meaningful changes may include:
For younger children, care may be primarily parent- or caregiver-focused. Older children and teens can participate more directly as they build knowledge, confidence, and independence. We will recommend the approach that best fits your child’s age, needs, and comfort level.
Reserve with a Registered Dietitian who provides child, teen, and family nutrition support. We’ll match your family with the dietitian whose expertise best fits your child’s needs, insurance, availability, and preferences.
For child + teen sports nutrition: Cassandra Pedersen, RD.