Whole-child support, alongside your team
For children diagnosed with autism, or with concerns for autism, I use an integrative approach to help manage the common medical and nutritional pieces that tend to fall through the cracks — getting the medical evaluation started, correcting nutritional gaps, and helping you coordinate a plan with specialists and your PCP.
In-person in Central Florida. Telehealth anywhere in Florida.
You’ve been here before.
- Your pediatrician, therapist, or school raised a concern and you’re not sure what happens next
- You’re on a long waitlist for developmental evaluation and want the medical piece moving
- A handful of accepted foods, and you suspect real nutritional gaps
- Chronic constipation or sleep problems nobody has taken seriously
- Three specialists, and no one talking to each other
The pieces that tend to get missed.
Nutrition
Selective eating produces measurable gaps — iron, zinc, vitamin D, B12, calcium. These are identifiable and correctable, and fixing them often improves energy, sleep, and mood.
The gut-brain-behavior connection
Digestive discomfort and food reactions can show up as behavior, not words. Pain that isn’t recognized as pain often looks like dysregulation instead.
Deeper nutrient and metabolic support
Beyond the basics, factors like B-vitamin status and methylation capacity are worth a real look in children with significant feeding limitations or GI symptoms.
Environmental and inflammatory load
Florida’s mold and humidity, diet, and overall inflammatory burden can affect sleep, gut comfort, and day-to-day regulation — the same terrain I work in for eczema, asthma, and allergies.
Treatable conditions alongside autism
Digestive issues, constipation, and sleep problems are substantially more common in autistic children, and pain is often expressed through behavior rather than words.
Care coordination
Pulling developmental pediatrics, therapy, school, GI, and primary care into one plan you can actually hold onto, instead of five separate conversations.
Support the whole picture, alongside your team.
A board-certified pediatrician with the time to look properly — working alongside your developmental pediatrician and therapy team, not replacing them.
- 1Longer visits, so feeding, digestive, and sleep history get the time they need.
- 2Start and organize the medical workup — hearing, vision, lead, iron, thyroid, and a genetics referral where indicated — while you wait for developmental assessment.
- 3Nutritional and metabolic assessment with targeted labs, and a plan to correct what’s low.
- 4Support the gut directly when digestive symptoms are part of the picture — diet, motility, and gut bacteria.
- 5Reduce environmental and inflammatory load at home where it’s realistic to do so.
- 6An approach that respects your child as they are — the goal is a comfortable, well-supported child, not a different one.
- 7Ongoing coordination with your developmental pediatrician and therapy team.
A note on scope: my role is medical and nutritional support — not diagnosing autism or performing developmental testing, and not chelation or any protocol marketed as a cure. Diagnosis and developmental testing stay with your developmental pediatrician or evaluation team, and I work alongside them.
Focus and development concerns often overlap.
Sleep, nutrition, and gut health show up across attention, mood, and developmental concerns alike.
Let’s build the plan together.
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In-person in Central Florida. Telehealth anywhere in Florida.
Functional medicine consults are cash-pay and do not replace your child’s primary care, developmental pediatrician, or therapy team. This page is educational and is not individual medical advice, diagnosis, or developmental testing.