Transform Your Family's Relationship with Food Together

Comprehensive nutrition support that addresses each family member's unique needs while creating harmony around your dinner table.

What Is Family
Nutrition Therapy?

Family nutrition therapy is a comprehensive approach that recognizes food and eating as inherently social experiences that affect the entire family system.

Rather than working with individual family members in isolation, we address the complex dynamics, patterns, and relationships that shape how your family approaches food together.

Every family has its own food culture, influenced by traditions, schedules, preferences, challenges, and individual needs. Family nutrition therapy honors these unique dynamics while helping you create positive changes that work for everyone. We understand that lasting change happens when the whole family feels supported and involved.

Our family-centered approach addresses everything from practical meal planning challenges to complex feeding relationships, food-related conflicts, and varying nutritional needs within the same household. We help families navigate differences in food preferences, eating patterns, and health goals while maintaining connection and reducing stress around food.

Whether you're dealing with picky eating, conflicting health needs, busy schedules, or simply want to improve your family's overall relationship with food, family nutrition therapy provides the comprehensive support your family needs to thrive together.

OUR APPROACH TO FAMILY NUTRITION THERAPY

Whole-Family, Systems-Based Care

We believe that sustainable change happens when we address the family as a complete system, understanding how each member's relationship with food affects and is affected by the others.

Our approach is collaborative, inclusive, and designed to strengthen family bonds while improving everyone's relationship with food.

What Makes Our Family Approach Unique:

  • We honor each family member's individual needs while focusing on collective harmony

  • We work with your existing family strengths and traditions

  • We provide practical solutions that fit your real-life constraints

  • We address both nutrition and relationship aspects of family eating

  • We support parents in their leadership role while respecting everyone's autonomy

  • We create sustainable changes that evolve with your family

HOW WE WORK WITH FAMILIES

We assess each family member's individual needs, preferences, and challenges

  • We identify family patterns, strengths, and areas for growth around food

  • We create strategies that work within your family's lifestyle, culture, and values

  • We address practical challenges like meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking

  • We help resolve food-related conflicts and reduce mealtime stress

  • We support positive communication around food and body image

  • We adapt our approach as your family grows and changes

WHO IS IT FOR

Family Nutrition Therapy Is Ideal For Families Who:

  • Struggle with conflicting food preferences or dietary needs

  • Experience stress, conflict, or power struggles around food

  • Have members with different health conditions requiring various approaches

  • Want to improve overall nutrition while respecting individual differences

  • Feel overwhelmed by meal planning and preparation

  • Have children with feeding challenges that affect the whole family

  • Want to create positive food traditions and experiences

  • Need support managing food allergies or restrictions for some family members

  • Experience challenges with different eating schedules or lifestyle demands

How Your Family Will Benefit

✔ Improved Communication

Develop healthy ways to discuss food, preferences, and needs

✔ Reduced Mealtime Stress

Transform mealtimes from sources of conflict to opportunities for connection

✔ Positive Food Culture

Create lasting traditions and attitudes that support lifelong health

✔ Practical Solutions

Get concrete strategies for meal planning, preparation, and eating together

✔ Enhanced Connection

Use shared meals as opportunities to strengthen family bonds

✔ Increased Harmony

Reduce food-related conflicts and power struggles

✔ Individual Respect

Honor each family member's needs while maintaining family unity

✔ Sustainable Changes

Develop approaches that work long-term and adapt as your family evolves

Frequently Asked Questions

  • We tailor family involvement based on your specific needs and circumstances. Sometimes we work with the whole family together, sometimes with parents first, and sometimes with different combinations of family members. We'll work with you to determine the most effective approach for your family.

  • This is actually one of our specialties. We help families navigate differences in dietary needs, preferences, and health goals while maintaining harmony. We focus on finding common ground and creating meal solutions that work for everyone.

  • We address picky eating as a family system issue, helping parents develop strategies that reduce stress while supporting the picky eater's gradual expansion of foods. We also work on preventing picky eating patterns from affecting siblings and creating sustainable solutions for family meals.

  • Absolutely. We provide practical meal planning strategies that work with real-life constraints like busy schedules, varying preferences, and limited time. We focus on efficiency without sacrificing nutrition or family connection.

  • We help parents align on feeding philosophies and approaches, addressing any conflicts or confusion that might be affecting the family's food environment. Consistency between caregivers is important for children's food security and overall family harmony.

  • Yes, we have extensive experience supporting families navigating eating disorders. We work collaboratively with treatment teams and focus on creating a supportive family environment that promotes recovery while meeting everyone's needs.

  • Many families struggle with generational differences in food attitudes, diet culture beliefs, and feeding practices. We help families navigate these differences respectfully while creating consistent, supportive approaches for children.

  • We specialize in helping families manage complex dietary needs, including food allergies, medical conditions, and special diets. We focus on inclusion and safety while ensuring the whole family feels supported and well-nourished.

Create the Food Culture Your Family Deserves!

Every family deserves to experience joy, connection, and nourishment around their dinner table, not stress, conflict, or confusion.