Feeling stuck with feeding your child?
I'm Rachel, a PhD-qualified clinical dietitian, feeding therapist, and mum of four in a neurodivergent family. I specialise in supporting families navigating complex feeding challenges such as ARFID, pediatric feeding disorders, generalised food anxiety and sensory-based food aversions.
My innovative feeding program combines clinical nutrition, gut health, play-based feeding therapy, and the latest insights from psychology and neuroscience.
If you're stuck in a cycle of stress, guilt, and confusion around your child’s diet - and you know that traditional advice simply doesn’t work for your neurodivergent child - you're in the right place.
Create calmer mealtimes, expand your child's safe foods, and bring joy back to eating - even if your child only eats a few foods.
Supporting families face to face in the Moreton Bay Region and online throughout Australia.
My Approach
Introducing Nourish. Empower.Thrive
Fed up with sporadic appointments, generic handouts and advice that will never work for your neurodivergent child? Nourish Empower Thrive is a unique feeding program that will give you the tools to support your child.
Nourish
NOURISH WITH CONFIDENCE PROTOCOL
Roadmap to complete nutrition: Personalised food +/- Supplement protocol:
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Fill nutritional gaps
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Target key nutrients for neurodivergent kids
THE GENTLE GUT RESET
A Gut Health Protocol for autistic children with gut symptoms and sensory needs
WHOLE CHILD WELLNESS
Anxiety Assessment, Sensory analysis
Fluids, Growth, Sleep, Movement
Empower
SET THE STAGE FOR CALM, COMFORTABLE MEALTIMES
Let the Brain Body Feeding Crew help your child come to the table feeling calm, confident and curious.
EMPOWER YOUR CHILD
Give your child the tools to overcome food anxiety and sensory aversions and explore new foods with confidence.
Use science-backed strategies to expand their safe foods.
EMPOWER YOU
Gain the tools and confidence to help your child try new foods and guide them through their food anxiety
Thrive
MEALTIME SUCCESS METHOD
Practical strategies for mealtimes at home, school and beyond
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Flexible framework to tailor to your unique family
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Help your child understand and advocate for their feeding needs
DIAGNOSIS SPECIFIC SUPPORT
Embrace the way your child is wired with tailored tools for ARFID, Autism, ADHD, and PDA
BRAIN BODY NUTRITION APPROACH
Feel confident teaching healthy eating while building a healthy relationship with food for life
About the Founder
Rachel is a PhD-qualified clinical dietitian, feeding therapist, and mum of four in a neurodivergent family. After graduating as a dietitian she completed a research PhD looking at the anti-inflammatory effects of omega-3. She has lectured at university level, worked in private practice for 15 years and completed many postgraduate trainings.
After several years running a busy face-to-face feeding clinic, Rachel recognised that many families still needed more - more support between sessions to implement skills, and more guidance they could actually apply in daily life. Driven by a deep commitment to improving care and reaching more families, she transitioned her work online to create the kind of program she once wished for in her own parenting journey. The result is the Nourish. Empower. Thrive. Feeding Program: a structured, supportive roadmap for families who’ve tried everything and still feel stuck.
Her work blends science with compassion, offering personalised strategies that actually work for neurodivergent kids. She’s here to shift the feeding conversation from pressure and power struggles to safety, confidence, and connection at the table.
Who is the Nourish Empower Thrive Program for?
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Children with restricted diets – children who eat a very limited variety of foods, struggle with new textures or flavors, or experience distress around mealtimes
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Children with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
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Children with Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD)
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Neurodivergent children with feeding challenges – support for children with autism, ADHD, PDA, Sensory processing differences, and other disabilities that impact eating
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Children with anxiety or trauma-related feeding issues – e.g. choking incidents, medical interventions, or past negative experiences with food
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Families seeking mealtime support – whether dealing with restricted eating, power struggles, mealtime stress, or concerns about growth and nutrition.
Working with me
You're juggling work, life and one or more kids with high support needs. This program is designed to be as time efficient as possible.
Featuring:
- A initial assessment where we uncover the root cause of your child's challenges
- 1:1 Parent coaching and support: get faster results as we guide you to the exact steps to take now to help your child make progress. Combined with -
- An online Feeding Support Hub: containing the frameworks, techniques and resources you need, broken into short digestible chunks. We will guide you to the exact content you need right now, you can revisit and learn in your own time and share with anyone who feeds your child.
- Direct feeding therapy with your child: using creative and innovative tech solutions for maximum engagement - no boring therapy here! Flexible delivery available for kids who struggle with appointments.
- Help and Support: Messenger access so you can get in-the-moment support.
This unique program also features my innovative, specially trained AI Feeding Support Bots - another way to fast track your progress and get exactly what you need in seconds!
Imagine mealtimes without stress and meltdowns, being freed from the worry of whether your child is eating enough and coming out with a clear roadmap for helping your child.
Testimonials
Special words from my clients
"Rachel has an incredible ability to connect with children on a personal level. Her empathetic and understanding nature allows her to build a trusting relationship with even the most hesitant kids. It's clear that she genuinely cares about their well-being and progress."
- Madeline
Rachel has been absolutely wonderful helping my daughter with her food anxiety. Her professional and diverse methods/strategies work and most importantly are not invasive or scary to my daughter. 5 stars all the way.
- Glen
"Our experience with Rachel has been nothing short of exceptional. From the first consultation to ongoing sessions, Rachel has demonstrated professionalism, warmth, and expertise. She creates a welcoming and supportive environment for both parents and children.:
- Sarah
"Highly recommend Rachel, if you are looking for someone to help with eating this is the person you want!! She has done so much for our boy in such a short time."
- Amy
"Rachel is a friendly and engaging provider. She goes the extra mile to ensure a quality service and the comfort of her participants"
- Natasha
"The process of having sessions at the kindy with Rachel is seamless and convenient. She works closely with the kindy staff to ensure that the sessions are well-integrated into the child's routine. This collaborative approach makes it easy for parents and children to benefit from her expertise without disrupting their daily schedules."
- Madeline
My Services
Feeding Solutions for
your child
Nourish Empower Thrive Feeding Program
My core program designed to get results fast. Pick up your child's nutrition, improve their gut health and watch them explore new foods with ease. Finally feel calm and confident to know exactly how to help them through their food anxiety and sensory aversions with this innovative program.
Online is no barrier to great therapy! I have developed innovative
Face to face therapy
If you are located around North Lakes, Narangba, Caboolture, Burpengary, Morayfield and surrounding suburbs, I offer face to face home visit feeding therapy. Creative, hands-on and always fun, watch as my play-based methods help melt away your child's food anxiety.
Support for teens
I provide compassionate support for children and teens with eating disorders, especially related to autistic feeding differences. Whether it's ARFID, binge eating or food anxiety, my Brain Body Feeding Framework gets real results.
Individual consultations
If you have a one-off question or nutrition issue, or maybe you have a unique challenge to work on, individual appointments are available. Working with children with Autism, ADHD, ARFID, Down's Syndrome, Global Developmental Delay, anxiety or Sensory Processing Disorder.
Tube feeding
Support for tube feeding, including creating and managing blended tube feed plans, to ensure optimal nutrition and ease the feeding process for children and their families.
Gut health
Is your child struggling with persistent constipation, maybe diarrhoea, reflux or early fullness? If you've tried everything and don't have answers, microbiome testing may be the solution you need. Using the latest technology and testing methods, don't waste time and money on solutions that won't work. Map your child's gut health, uncover what's really going on and find the right solution fast.
