Our Team | Next Bite Paediatric Feeding Centre

Meet our Team

Feeding therapy is our bread and butter.

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Annie Robertson

Accredited Practising Dietitian
Dessert Devotee

Annie Robertson is a Senior Dietitian with 15 years experience working with children with complex feeding difficulties in Perth and London, including Perth Children's Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital. She
has also mentored dietetic students and new graduates for many years.

Annie provides assessment and evidence based recommendations for the management of nutritional issues related to disability, tube feeding and weaning, infant and toddler feeding difficulties, growth faltering, malnutrition as well as a range of other chronic diseases and medical conditions.

Annie is a mother to two young children, so understands the chaos of parent life! She aims to provide practical, non-judgemental support that fits with families own feeding goals. Annie loves working as part of a multidisciplinary team of feeding therapists, to provide a holistic approach to childhood feeding.

Alison Climie-Holmes

Accredited Practising Dietitian
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Alison is a Senior Dietitian with 30 years' experience working with infants, children and teenagers in both Australia and the UK, including community settings and major teaching hospitals.

Alison provides evidence-based recommendations for the management of nutritional issues related to growth and development, vitamin and mineral deficiency e.g. iron deficiency, constipation and gut health, Paediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD) and Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) , infant and toddler feeding difficulties, tube feeding and weaning, as well as a range of other chronic diseases and medical conditions.

Alison loves working as part of an interdisciplinary team of feeding therapists, to provide a holistic, practical and supportive approach to feeding.

Holly Tickner

Speech Pathologist (MSPA, CPSP)
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Since graduating over 15 years ago, Holly has worked almost exclusively in the area of paediatric feeding difficulties, which has become her clinical passion. Holly has spent most of her career working in the paediatric and neonatal tertiary hospital setting, however she has had the privilege of being able to work across additional sectors, including paediatric mental health, community settings, the disability sector, and early intervention.

In addition to this, Holly has taught on the subject of paediatric feeding disorders to other health professionals across the state and has lectured on the topic to students at Curtin University and Edith Cowan University.

Holly is always interested in discussing evidence based practice in the world of paediatric feeding and has recently taken on a role as a reviewer with The Informed SLP, writing on the topics of paediatric feeding disorders and early intervention.

Asha Bodycoat

Speech Pathologist (MSPA, CPSP)
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Asha is a Speech Pathologist with a background in early intervention for children with developmental delays and disabilities. She is also a qualified autism assessor.

Asha particularly enjoys working with neurodivergent children and their families to make mealtimes less stressful. At the core of her approach to feeding therapy is helping parents and carers to understand how their children experience the world.

Asha is trained in numerous approaches to feeding therapy including Get Permission, SOS®, and SOFFI®. She uses a combination of trainings and strategies based on what each individual child needs.

Rochelle Roberts

Speech Pathologist (MSPA, CPSP)
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Rochelle is a Speech Pathologist with a background providing services to families in a variety of different rural contexts and locations around Australia.

Rochelle provides family-centered and evidence-based practice in paediatric feeding for children of all ages. She enjoys helping families experiencing challenges with picky eating, oromotor difficulties, and bottle feeding.

Through a wide variety of clinical experiences, Rochelle has learned to be flexible in her therapeutic approach and tailors advice to each unique family. She particularly enjoys listening to families and partnering with parents to enable less stressful mealtimes where families can feel more connected and enjoy experiencing food together. Rochelle values working with a multidisciplinary approach, ensuring a holistic approach for families to access advice that suits their family.

Daniella Allen

Customer Care Manager

Can you tell we love learning?

Here's our shared list of professional development courses:

Appetite: How to Foster Hunger & Wean Kids from Tube Feedings

Melanie Potock & Holly Knotowicz

A Practical Guide to Managing Fussy Eaters

Dr Julie Cichero

ARFID: The Anxious Eater

Melanie Potock

A Sensory Motor Approach for Poor Diet Texture Progression

Debra Beckman

Circle of Security

Dr Kent Hoffman & Dr Glenn Cooper

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Avoidant / Restrictive Food Intake Disorder CBT-AR for ARFID

Dr Kamryn Eddy & Dr Jennifer Thomas

Feeding Therapy: It’s Not Just about Swallowing

Melanie Potock

Grade the ASK : A Sensitive Strategy for Careful and Successful New Food Trying

Marsha Dunn Klein

Hanen It Takes Two To Talk

Infant and Neonatal Feeding

Dr Pamela Doddrill & Dr Kelly Weir

Mealtime Miseries

Elizabeth Clawson & Carol Elliot

Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation of Swallow (NMES, or Vitalstim)

Paediatric Cervical Auscultation

Dr Julie Cichero

Paediatric dysphagia: The A-Z of the IDDSI Framework, fussy eating and medication administration in babies and children

Dr Julie Cichero

Pediatric Feeding Disorders and Anxiety: Don't Feed the Monster

Melanie Potock & Dr Jonathan Dalton

PROMPT

Dr Roslyn Ward

SENSE-ational Mealtimes

Gillian Griffiths

SOFFI®: Supporting Oral Feeding in Medically Fragile Infants

Feeding FUNdamentals

The Developing Brain

Nathan Mikaere Wallis

Tube Weaning

Dr Marguerite Dunitz-Scheer & Dr Peter Scheer

Videofluroscopy Swallow X-rays (Modified Barium Swallow, or Videofluroscopic Swallow Study/VFSS)

When Children Won’t Eat: Picky Eaters vs Problem Feeders. Assessment and Treatment using the SOS Approach to Feeding

Dr Kay Toomey and Bethany Kortsha