Debbie is a mum of two teenage girls, wife and paediatric feeding speech pathologist. She has eighteen year experience working with babies and children with feeding difficulties Debbie has worked in the acute hospital setting including at St George and Sydney Children’s Hospital, where she met and worked with Val.

Debbie is the owner of Feeding Kids Sydney, a busy private practice in Southern Sydney. She sees a range of children including fussy eaters, those on the autism spectrum, children with a disability and with complex medical needs as well as children requiring enteral feeding.

Debbie works on developing chewing skills, expanding food variety, increasing oral intake, reducing stress and anxiety at mealtimes and supporting families to make changes at home that are life long. Debbie has completed extensive training in a range of feeding therapy approaches including systematic desensitisation (SOS approach to feeding), operant conditioning (Broccoli Camp) and responsive feeding approaches (SENSE-ational mealtimes).

Debbie uses responsive feeding techniques in her practice and has, together with Val, developed the Responsive Feeding House Model of feeding therapy. She supports therapists around Australia working in paediatric feeding and has presented both in Australia and internationally. Debbie is a firm believer that there is no one size fits all approach to feeding and that a non-judgemental attitude, realistic expectations, achievable recommendations and easy to follow strategies are paramount to making therapy a success.