Pediatric Feeding Therapy for

Toddlers, Children, Teens, and Young Adults.

Amy Cresswell OTR/L is currently full for new clients. The waitlist is closed and will re-open January 2025. The current waitlist extends to Spring 2025.

Services Include

  • Feeding Therapy

    We address eating challenges including severe selective eating, Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD), and Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).

  • Sensory Processing

    We address underlying sensory processing and modulation challenges that impact behavior regulation, focus, and participation in all aspects of life.

  • Interoceptive Awareness

    Interoception or the 8th sensory system connects us with our internal body state and emotion senses.

  • Motor Skills

    From gross motor to fine motor and everything in-between. Postural stability, midline orientation, hand skills, and visual motor skills impact everything from play, and tool use to oral motor skills to self-care.

  • Adaptive and Durable Medical Equipment

    Equipment consultations to add ease into daily routines.

  • Pediatric OT Consultations

    Parent/caregiver consultations.

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Hello! I am Amy Cresswell MOT, OTR/L.

I have been a pediatric occupational therapist since graduating from Samuel Merritt College in 2003. My background includes a bachelors of science degree in Child Development and a foundational start as a pediatric OT at a children’s hospital. I sought out experience with a private sensory integration clinic in Southern California where I gained valuable experience, tools for my toolbox, and where I became a supervising therapist before meeting my husband and relocating to the Central Coast.

For 15 years I have had the privilege of serving children and their families on the Central Coast through my time with California Children’s Services, Sierra Vista High Risk Infant Follow-Up Clinic, and most recently providing feeding therapy as part of a multi-disciplinary team with Marlena Tanner’s Yellow House Project.

Grow Forward Occupational Therapy is a project of love and care to continue a tradition of bringing growth, optimism, respect, compassion, and fun working together with children and their families.