Hi! I’m Jenny, a pediatric registered dietitian who specializes in extreme picky eating and ARFID.

If your child hasn’t tried a new food in months (or years), you’re in the right place. 

I’m here to help you reduce the stress, power struggles, and worry around your child’s eating. And to help your child feel less worried about food so they can do more and get the nutrition they need.

Together, we’ll help your child build confidence and comfort with food, not through pressure or “just one bite” tactics, but through exploration and trusting their own body.

No more asking “but what will they eat” before every family event. No more making three separate dinners. No more feeling alone in this. 

Your child can learn to eat a greater variety of food. You can start to feel better — even good — about your child’s eating.

How I Came to Be a Picky Eating Specialist and ARFID Dietitian

While in graduate school, I taught nutrition education and cooking to elementary school students. Most kids loved our experiments and getting involved in the kitchen. But some children shied away from these activities.  Something was holding them back from comfortably engaging with the new foods they encountered.

Fast forward several years: I began working with autistic children who were extreme picky eaters, and I realized something deeper was interfering with their eating and even their ability to interact with new foods.

None of the typical picky eating strategies worked for them.

So I tried something different.

And even the most extreme cases made progress.

After years of specialized training in ARFID, feeding disorders, and responsive feeding therapy, I now work exclusively with families experiencing serious feeding challenges—kids eating fewer than 20 foods, avoiding entire food groups, struggling with food-related anxiety, pediatric feeding disorder (PFD), ARFID, sensory issues, and severe food aversions.

My goal is to help kids build trust around food and develop confidence with eating so they can live life without food getting in their way.

My Approach

My goal is to help your child feel comfortable enough with food that they actually want to try new things—on their own terms.

Using the right combination of strategies for your child, I can help your family:

  • Reduce stress and fighting around mealtimes (finally)
  • Stop making multiple meals and move towards one family dinner
  • Make food decisions easier so you can say yes to restaurants, travel, and social events without anxiety
  • Help kids build confidence with food through exposure and exploration (not pressure)
  • Create lasting change with strategies that fit your child’s unique needs

 

On a Personal Note

  • I’m a boy mom to three delicious kids. They all like different foods and one has a peanut allergy, but all three can agree that pizza and hot dogs rock.  
  • Food is my love language. I spend way too much time cooking dinner, packing lunches, and saving recipes I’ll never make. 
  • I’m also the author of Stories of Extreme Picky Eating, a book born from my work with kids who struggle deeply with food. Publishing it was a dream come true (fun fact: though I originally planned to be a writer before landing in nutrition, funny how life works out!).
  • I’ve worked with hundreds families to ease their child’s eating struggles and have helped kids eat lunch without embarrassment, feel comfortable at restaurants, go to sleepaway camp, take family vacations without food anxiety, get back on their growth curves, and so much more.
  • In a past life, I ran marathons, volunteered on a farm in Argentina, hosted cooking demos at farmers markets, sold goat cheese, and grew an edible garden on my balcony in NYC.

Who I Work With

I specialize in working children who:

  • Eat fewer than 20 foods (sometimes as few as 3-5)

  • Refuse entire food groups or textures

  • Experience anxiety, gagging, or panic around new foods

  • Have or show signs of ARFID

  • Struggle with sensory processing related to food

  • Have neurodivergence (autism, ADHD) affecting their eating

  • Show signs of pediatric feeding disorder (PFD) 

  • Avoid social situations because of food

Questions? My inbox is always open at hello@feedingpickyeaters.com.

Ready to get relief from extreme picky eating?

 

Credentials

  • Registered dietitian nutritionist
  • Masters of Science in Nutrition and Public Health, Columbia University
  • Bachelor of Arts, McGill University
  • Additional training includes: ARFID treatment protocols, CBT-AR (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for ARFID), FBT-ARFID (Family Based Treatment), responsive feeding therapy, the SOS Approach to Feeding