The Family Table: Where Food & Parenting Meet

Parent Coaching

I'm Dr. Reshma Shah — a pediatrician, parent coach, and mom. I work with families who feel stuck when it comes to feeding, parenting, and their kids' health issues. I offer personalized, evidence-based coaching to help you parent with more clarity, confidence, and calm.

You may not have the village you hoped for — but you don’t have to do this alone.

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Parenting Is Personal, and So Is My Approach

Your Family, Your Way:

Evidence-based coaching that builds on
your natural parenting strengths

If you're here, chances are something feels hard right now — maybe you're navigating a new diagnosis for your child, dreading another stressful dinner, or carrying the quiet weight of second-guessing yourself as a parent.

You're not alone.

I work with parents who care deeply but feel stuck — especially when it comes to feeding struggles, nutrition concerns, or day-to-day parenting decisions. You know your child best. I'm here to offer a thoughtful partnership — grounded in science and shaped by compassion — so you can feel more confident and connected as you parent and feed your child.

My Parent Coaching Framework:
The Family Table

It's where we eat, do homework, celebrate birthdays, and maybe try paper mache for the first time. A family table tells you so much about family life.

Most families spend just 17 minutes at the dinner table. In our busy lives, those few minutes can hold both the best and most challenging moments of the day.

I think of the table as a window into how a family works together. Whether they're dealing with picky eating, a new diagnosis, or behavior challenges, what happens at, around, and beyond the table reveals not only the challenges but the possible solutions.


My Family Table Approach offers personalized support across three connected layers:

  • At the Table

    Nutrition
    Plant-Forward Diets
    Picky Eating
    Feeding Dynamics

  • Around the Table

    Parenting Support
    Behavior Challenges
    Navigating Health Conditions
    Everyday Overwhelm

  • Beyond the Table

    Food Culture
    A Plant-Forward Lens
    Values That Shape Family Life
    Nourish Yourself, Too

My Family Table Approach isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. It’s a flexible, evidence-based framework to help you create a way of feeding and parenting that feels calmer, clearer, and more aligned with what matters most to you.

My Work With Families

Pediatrician and Award-Winning Author, Dr. Reshma Shah

I’m a board-certified pediatrician, award-winning author of Nourish, and parent coach. I’ve served as an affiliate clinical instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine and now co-direct the Learning Center at Plant-Based Juniors.

For over two decades, I’ve supported families navigating everything from picky eating and mealtime struggles to new diagnoses and plant-forward nutrition. My work blends medical expertise with real-life parenting — always grounded in your family’s needs, values, and goals.

What Parents Have Shared

  • “Dr. Shah's program has been an incredible gift. There are a growing number of telehealth/remote coaches in the plant-based space for adults, but not for kids and families and this is such a critical time. As a parent of a plant-based family, we need this type of support and nutrition/lifestyle knowledgeable coaches to discuss challenges, strategies, and what's to come. Having a resource in Dr. Shah, both with her vast experience as a pediatrician and parent, was a meaningful opportunity. Her nonjudgemental, supportive, encouraging, positive approach built confidence in me to stay curious, keep learning, while being confident in my intuition, skills and experience as a parent. I'm really grateful for this time with Dr. Shah and look forward to continuing to visit in the future.”

    — Beth

  • “The coaching that Dr. Shah provided was truly valuable. She helped to educate me about adopting a new approach to meal times that were more joyful and focused on connecting. I also benefited from the parenting insights with raising my son. I highly recommend working with Dr. Shah. She is very compassionate, knowledgeable and approachable.”

    — Devi

  • “Reshma’s one-on-one consulting was excellent. She answered all of my questions in great detail and provided additional advice and guidance. Not only is she incredibly knowledgeable about nutrition and parenting, she is also very kind, calm and respectful. I highly recommend.”

    — Katy

  • “I had a great experience with Dr Shah. She was able to pinpoint the concerning issue quickly and offer simple actionable steps that made a lot of difference in my interaction with kids.”

    - Tatiana A.

Fruit- and vegetable-filled cover of Reshma Shah’s book, Nourish, a plant-based guide for families

NOURISH: The Definitive Plant-Based Nutrition Guide for Families

My coaching approach is grounded in the evidence-based strategies I developed for my award-winning book, Nourish: The Definitive Plant-Based Nutrition Guide for Families. A #1 New Release on Amazon and Gold Nautilus Book Award winner, Nourish offers practical tools for feeding children with more confidence, connection, and joy — whether you’re fully plant-based, plant-curious, or somewhere in between.

The same inclusive, real-world strategies that fill the pages of Nourish shape the way I coach — with the goal of helping families feel more at ease around food and parenting.

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