The Nourish Table
Supporting Nutrition, Wellbeing & Independence for SEND & Neurodivergent Families
Practical, pressure-free nutrition support for families navigating safe foods, restricted eating, sensory preferences and changing appetites — helping parents strengthen nutrition, build confidence around food and support their loved one’s long-term wellbeing and independence.
When Food Feels Complicated
For many SEND and neurodivergent families, food can become one of the most challenging parts of everyday life.
A child or teenager may rely on a small number of predictable foods, prefer particular brands or textures, struggle with changes in presentation, experience appetite changes or find unfamiliar foods overwhelming. Add busy school days, changing routines and conflicting nutrition advice, and parents can be left wondering whether their child is getting what they need, and what, if anything, they should change.
The Nourish Table starts with what your child or teenager already eats.
Rather than focusing on food rules or pursuing a “perfect” diet, I help families understand their current eating patterns and find realistic opportunities to support nutritional needs, energy and overall wellbeing — while respecting sensory needs, predictability and individual differences.
The aim is not to make food another battle. It is to give parents greater knowledge, confidence and practical tools around nutrition.
The Toddler & Early Years
Supporting parents through early feeding stages, changing appetites and developing food preferences, with practical guidance around balanced nutrition as their child grows.
The School-Aged Child
Helping families navigate safe foods, limited variety, lunchboxes, changing routines and practical ways to strengthen everyday nutrition.
The Adolescent & Teenager
Supporting nutrition through a period of rapid growth, changing appetites and increasing independence, while helping families build the practical food knowledge, routines and confidence that can support young people as they move towards adulthood.
Nutrition Support Through Every Stage
Nutrition is one part of a much bigger picture.
Restricted diets, irregular eating, appetite changes and digestive difficulties can all affect nutritional intake, with potential knock-on effects for energy, concentration, mood and overall wellbeing.
Blood Sugar & Energy
Meals and snacks that are mainly carbohydrate-based, alongside long gaps between meals or inconsistent eating, can contribute to greater fluctuations in blood glucose for some young people. Practical food pairing can help support more sustained energy throughout the day.
Nutrition & Brain Function
The developing brain relies on a consistent supply of energy and essential nutrients. Protein, healthy fats, iron, zinc and other macro- and micronutrients all contribute to normal cognitive function, energy metabolism and nervous-system health.
Restricted Diets & Nutritional Intake
A child or teenager can be eating enough food overall while a limited or repetitive diet makes it more difficult to get the full range of nutrients they need. Understanding what they already eat helps identify practical opportunities to strengthen their nutrition.
Medication, Appetite & Eating Patterns
Some medications, including some used for ADHD, can affect appetite. Practical meal timing, food pairing and nutrient-dense choices can help families work around appetite changes and support nutritional intake.
Nutrition, Energy & Wellbeing
How The Nourish Table Can Help
Working With Safe Foods
We look at what your child or teenager already eats and identify practical opportunities to strengthen nutritional balance using familiar, accepted foods.
Simple Food Pairing
Parents learn practical ways to combine carbohydrates with protein, healthy fats and fibre to support more sustained energy and nutritional balance throughout the day.
Building Food Flexibility
Where appropriate, we explore gentle, low-pressure approaches to similar foods, flavours, textures or brands, while respecting sensory preferences, predictability and individual pace.
Supporting the Whole Family
Food challenges affect parents and carers too. Practical routines and tools help build caregiver confidence around nutrition for themselves and their loved ones, while supporting their own resilience and wellbeing.
How Individual Support Works
1. Screening & Preparation
Before a 1:1 consultation, you complete a pre-clinic questionnaire covering current eating patterns, safe foods, nutritional intake, relevant health information and your main concerns.
This helps me understand your family’s needs and ensure nutritional therapy is an appropriate form of support.
2. 1:1 Nutrition Consultation
We explore your child or teenager’s current nutrition and eating patterns and identify realistic priorities.
You leave with practical, individualised guidance designed around the foods they already accept, your family routine and the areas where nutritional support may be helpful.
3. Follow-Up & Next Steps
Where included within your package, follow-up support provides an opportunity to review how things are going, answer questions and adapt practical next steps where appropriate.
The Nourish Table complements rather than replaces medical, dietetic, occupational therapy, feeding or eating-disorder care. Where concerns or needs fall outside the scope of nutritional therapy, families will be appropriately signposted for specialist or multidisciplinary support.
The Nourish Table for Schools & Academies
Practical Nutrition Education for SEND Families
Are you looking to strengthen parent and carer support, family wellbeing or Preparation for Adulthood provision within your school?
I work with specialist schools and academies to provide evidence-informed nutrition education and practical family support that complements existing SEND provision.
The Nourish Table can combine parent workshops, pre-clinic screening, private 1:1 nutrition consultations and follow-up support, depending on the needs of the setting.
Building Parent & Caregiver Confidence
Helping families make sense of nutrition, safe foods, restricted eating and conflicting food advice with practical strategies they can apply at home.
Strengthening Everyday Nutrition
Helping parents understand how eating patterns, food combinations and restricted diets can influence nutritional intake, with practical ways to get more from familiar, accepted foods.
Supporting Energy, Focus & Wellbeing
Practical education around meal timing, food pairing and everyday nutrition to support more consistent energy, concentration and overall wellbeing.
Building Skills for Adulthood
Supporting families to develop practical food knowledge, routines and confidence that can contribute to greater independence as young people move towards adulthood.
A Three-Term Parent Programme
Term 1 — Nourishing for Energy, Focus & Mood
How do I make what they already eat work harder nutritionally?
Understanding how eating patterns, meal timing and food combinations can influence energy, concentration and mood.
Practical ways to strengthen familiar meals and snacks through simple food pairing and nutrient-rich additions.
Topics include: protein at breakfast • food pairing • blood sugar balance • energy dips • strengthening familiar meals and snacks
Term 2 — Navigating Restricted Eating & Building Food Flexibility
How do we move beyond a very limited or rigid range of foods without creating more pressure?
Understanding safe foods, sensory preferences, predictability and brand-specific eating, and why introducing change can be difficult.
Gentle, low-pressure approaches to exploring similar foods, flavours, textures and brands while respecting individual sensory needs.
Topics include: food flexibility • similar/lookalike foods • gentle food exploration • brand-specific eating • building confidence with change
Term 3 — Family Nutrition & Summer Resilience
How do we put this together and make it sustainable?
Building parent and caregiver confidence around nutrition for themselves and their loved ones, while supporting their own resilience and wellbeing.
Practical routines and tools to help families maintain manageable eating patterns through holidays, changing routines and the long summer break.
Topics include: caregiver wellbeing • summer routine planning • eating away from home • maintaining manageable routines during holidays
What The Nourish Table Can Support
Building confidence around nutrition
Helping parents understand their child’s current eating patterns and make informed, realistic decisions about nutrition.
Strengthening everyday nutrition
Finding practical ways to improve nutritional balance using familiar, accepted foods and simple food combinations.
More manageable mealtimes
Low-pressure approaches and practical routines designed to make nutrition feel more manageable within family life.
Greater awareness
Helping parents recognise potential nutritional shortfalls and understand when additional medical, dietetic or specialist support may be appropriate.
Growing independence
Building practical nutrition knowledge, routines and food skills that can contribute to greater independence as children and young people move towards adulthood.
FAQ
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No. We start by understanding what your child already accepts. Often there are opportunities to strengthen nutritional intake through food pairing, familiar foods and small practical adjustments before thinking about greater variety. Where food exploration is appropriate, the approach is gentle, low-pressure and respectful of sensory needs.
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Restricted or repetitive eating can occur for many reasons in SEND and neurodivergent children and teenagers. The pre-clinic questionnaire helps me understand your child’s eating patterns, nutritional intake and current support. If there are concerns that require medical, dietetic, feeding or eating-disorder expertise, I will recommend appropriate specialist or multidisciplinary support.
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Nutrition is one of many factors that can influence energy and concentration. Regular eating, adequate nutritional intake and balanced food combinations all contribute to normal energy metabolism and cognitive function. We look at these factors within the wider context of your child’s individual needs.
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The Nourish Table is designed to complement existing support, not replace it. Where appropriate and with the necessary consent, nutritional therapy can sit alongside the work of other professionals while remaining within its own scope of practice.
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The Nourish Table is not an eating-disorder treatment service. Where an eating disorder is suspected or identified, specialist assessment and treatment should be led by appropriately qualified eating-disorder services. Nutritional therapy would only be considered where appropriate, within professional scope and alongside the relevant multidisciplinary care.
How to Get Started
1. Schedule Your Free Discovery Call
Book a complimentary 15-minute call to tell me a little about your family, your current concerns and the support you are looking for.
2. Explore the Right Support
We can discuss whether individual nutritional therapy is appropriate or, for schools and professionals, what a Nourish Table parent programme could look like within your setting.
3. Agree Your Next Step
If we are a good fit, I will explain the appropriate pathway, screening process and next steps before any 1:1 work begins.
Nourishing growing bodies, supporting families, and collaborating with local schools.