Food Allergy Consultations

Ever wanted to ask a qualified professional questions about living with allergies, allergy parenting, or how to find balance after being diagnosed, but don't need therapy?

​Then consider booking an educational food allergy consultation meeting with Tamara to receive useful, evidence-based information that helps you gain clarity on living with and/or parenting a child with food allergy and developing a balanced approach to life with allergies!

Unlike food allergy counseling which is therapeutic in nature, these educational consultation sessions are: 
 

• ​100% informational in nature, offering evidence-based education, recommendations, and resources
   

• Brief and targeted; typically limited to 1-3 meetings depending on discussion topics 
   

• Focused on exploring and clarifying a specific allergy-related topic or problem you're looking to better understand or navigate
   

• NOT therapeutic guidance or focused on treating food allergy anxiety; they are discussions centered on psychoeducation, problem-solving, and solution-seeking
   

• NOT medical information/guidance, as this is outside of my scope of practice; these meetings can help you clarify questions for your allergist and allergy care team 
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Within these personalized consultation meetings, we will discuss your questions and review helpful evidence-based information and psychoeducation. This information will help you develop a clearer picture for how you can proceed forward feeling less overwhelmed and more empowered.
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Session focuses may include, but are not limited to: 
 

• Individual and parenting psychoeducation information and recommendations
   

• Psychoeducation to help you develop a growth mindset for oral immunotherapy (OIT)
   

• Basic food allergy anxiety psychoeducation to help understand the root of it and its impacts on daily functioning and parenting
   

• Gaining a better understanding of why you're feeling overwhelmed so you can more effectively develop your solutions and find support services
   

• Identifying specific aspects of allergy life that you could use more education about, skill development for, and practice with
   

• Development of questions to ask your allergist and allergy care team, which will help you gain confidence and develop skills to balance fear and living fully
   

• Review of allergic disease information sources to help you discern whether they're evidence-based, and if they're helping or hindering your ability to balance fear and living fully
   

• Recommendations of reputable, evidence-based allergy-focused informational websites, online supports, and resources​
   

• Provider recommendations as needed and as appropriate (e.g. board certified allergists, allied health practitioners including therapists, dietitians, etc)