Sensory strategies to help with eating difficulties
(Experiential lunchtime session)
Mealtimes can be a source of stress for children with sensory sensitivities or emotional regulation challenges. This experiential lunchtime session offers practical, sensory-informed strategies to support children who struggle with eating.
We’ll explore how sensory processing can affect appetite, food preferences, and mealtime behaviours—and share gentle approaches to help make eating more enjoyable and less overwhelming. From textures and smells to routines and environments, we’ll look at what might help reduce anxiety and encourage positive experiences around food.
This is a relaxed, hands-on session where you’ll have the chance to try out ideas, ask questions, and connect with others navigating similar challenges.
Each in-person course will have a max of 15 attendees and will be in a Workshop format.
The course will run 12pm-1.30pm. When booking, please do let me know of any dietary requirements. Bookings close a week before the event to allow planning.
We apologise – but these courses are not suitable for children and there is no childcare available.
Accessibility
– The ground is all one level
– There are disabled toilets and a Changing Place
– There is plenty of parking around the back of the building (including Blue Badge spaces) and more on the streets around the building.
Please do let us know if you have an access requirements.
About Juniper Tree Therapy
Nurturing Development • Supporting Connection • Sharing Tools
Juniper Tree Therapy is a Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapy team, supporting children, young people and their families across Leeds. We are passionate about supporting those with a wide range of unique needs, including learning difficulties, neurodevelopmental conditions, physical and motor impairments, and sensory and emotional difficulties.
We consider how an individual’s nervous system perceives sensory information; from the world around them, and from within their own body. We then consider how this impacts on the way that children engage in daily life, and how they are able to connect with the important people around them.
We consider the family as a whole, and we are passionate about ensuring that the child or young person is their own ‘expert’ about their experiences, strengths and areas of challenge. We are also able to interpret their bodily responses, and the perspectives of their close family, friends, and other Key Adults.
Using a Sensory Integration and Sensory Attachment Intervention lens helps us to understand what is beneath a presenting difficulty. This means we can create recommendations and guidance to help to provide support within each child’s individual family life. We focus on providing repeated opportunities for regulation and connection across the day, to help the brain to ‘rewire’ in response to regulating experiences.
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