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Toledo Center offers outpatient programming for children with eating difficulties. Childhood can be full of different phases and eating changes. Although this is fairly common behavior, it can leave parents feeling troubled. Disturbances in feeding become problematic when it causes the child to become upset or worry and when he or she is not eating enough to sustain proper nutrition and facilitate proper growth. Complications around eating can take many forms including but not limited to:
- Trouble with food textures/sensory issues
- Temper tantrums during meals
- Refusing to eat
- Limiting food group
- Choking, gagging, or vomiting after eating
- Body image concerns
- Anxiety/OCD
Although eating issues during childhood may seem to be just a frustration for parents and caregivers, there are real medical concerns including, nutritional deficiencies or a reliance on liquid supplements and vitamins. The staff at Toledo Center are carefully selected, not just for their experience in treating symptoms and underlying causes of eat problems, but also for their compassion and willingness to extend themselves on behalf of all clients. The staff is clinically trained in working with children suffering from:
- Selective/restrictive eating (picky eating)
- Food, choking, vomiting phobias (Functional Dysphagia)
- Lacking interest in food/eating
- Food avoidance due to sensory issues
Toledo Center’s outpatient therapists work with children and families to lessen the stress and anxiety surrounding mealtimes. They work closely with families to ensure that every member is part of the healing process. Many times, changes are necessary to the environment and routine that will require the assistance of parents and caregivers.
The Clinic’s Childhood Eating Problems Program is based on well-established and evidence-based therapy models that integrate individual and family therapy. The treatment is based on applied behavioral principles, enhanced cognitive behavioral principles and directive play therapy techniques, which integrate individual and family therapy and is applied in an individualized manner for each patient. Toledo Center treats eating problems that may be coupled with co-occurring disorders and problems, including but not limited to:
- ADHD
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Behavioral Problems
- Conduct Disorders
- Depression
For further information about this program, or to schedule an initial assessment, contact Anna Lippisch, MSW, LSW, Director of Childhood Eating Problems Program, at 419-885-8800.