BMS Breezy Mentorship:
Real-World Mentorship for Pediatric SLPs

BMS Breezy Mentorship

BMS Breezy Mentorship is opening with limited Founders Year availability.

This 10-session mentorship experience is designed for pediatric SLPs seeking personalized support in feeding therapy, clinical reasoning, treatment planning, parent coaching, and real-world pediatric practice.

Mentorship may be a good fit for SLPs who are:

  1. beginning to take on pediatric feeding cases

  2. transitioning from school-based practice into outpatient, private practice, or medically based settings

  3. building confidence with feeding therapy treatment planning and clinical decision-making

  4. seeking support with parent coaching, carryover, and family-centered feeding goals

  5. interested in learning more about pediatric feeding, infant feeding, interdisciplinary collaboration, and outpatient/private practice development

Founders Rate: $1,200 for 10 one-hour sessions, virtual and in-person options.

Space is limited. Rates will increase in 2028.

Now accepting interest for:
Fall 2026
Spring 2027
Summer 2027
Fall 2027

Because clinical mentorship is most meaningful when it is individualized and case-based, only a small number of mentees will be accepted.

Email bsullivancccslp@gmail.com with interest.
Please fill out this application: https://forms.gle/ew4wcNU63Ev2dWPUA

What’s Included in the Mentorship

Each mentorship experience is individualized based on the clinician’s background, goals, and current caseload. Sessions may include support with:

• Foundational learning in pediatric feeding therapy
• Feeding development from birth through toddlerhood and beyond
• Oral motor, sensory, behavioral, medical, and developmental considerations in feeding
• Feeding therapy techniques and strategies to use during treatment sessions
• Clinical reasoning for choosing goals, therapy activities, and home recommendations
• Case studies from evaluation through treatment planning, progress monitoring, and discharge
• Understanding medical complexities that may impact feeding, swallowing, nutrition, and family routines
• Red flags and referral considerations for GI, ENT, pulmonology, nutrition, lactation, OT, PT, psychology, and other specialists
• How to collaborate with interdisciplinary team members and communicate recommendations clearly
• Parent coaching language, carryover strategies, and family-centered goal development
• Documentation support, including evaluation impressions, treatment plans, progress notes, and discharge considerations
• Baseline education in modified barium swallow study concepts, terminology, and clinical application
• Discussion of when instrumental swallowing assessments may be indicated
• Private practice and outpatient clinical considerations, including caseload development, boundaries, and confidence-building
• When available and clinically appropriate, in-person observation or hands-on learning opportunities with appropriate consent and confidentiality procedures in place

My Path to Mentorship

My journey into pediatric feeding began in 2011 during a service-learning trip to Guatemala, where I volunteered alongside my professor at a medical orphanage. That early experience sparked my interest in feeding therapy and opened my eyes to the complexity, vulnerability, and impact of this specialized area of our field.

During my first years as a clinician, I continued taking continuing education courses and began treating basic feeding cases, but I quickly realized that coursework alone was not enough. I needed mentorship, hands-on learning, and the opportunity to observe clinical reasoning in real time. I was fortunate to learn from experienced SLPs who were not only clinically strong, but also generous in supporting the growth of others. That mentorship shaped the way I learned, practiced, and eventually began supporting other clinicians.

I went on to complete a 12-week pediatric feeding mentorship program focused on hands-on treatment and clinical decision-making. As my interest in infant feeding grew, I completed the Advanced Certificate in Pediatric Dysphagia through New York Medical College, which included NICU-based coursework and clinical experiences. This training helped me transition into a leadership role supporting a NICU graduate follow-up program, where I collaborated with occupational and physical therapists to complete interdisciplinary evaluations for infants within 30 days of NICU discharge.

As my work with infants expanded, I recognized that breastfeeding education was an important missing piece in my clinical development. I later earned my Certified Lactation Counselor credential through Healthy Children Project. Over time, I have also had the opportunity to serve as the lead SLP on an intensive feeding team, complete pediatric modified barium swallow studies, and support children and families across a wide range of feeding and communication needs.

In addition to my clinical work, I have served as an adjunct professor in the areas of pediatric feeding and autism, guest lectured for local university speech-language pathology and nurse practitioner programs, and presented at ASHA and FLASHA. I have completed ASHA’s Leadership Development Program and Leadership Mentorship Program as both a mentee and mentor. I also supervise graduate student externs yearly and have supported clinical fellows as they develop their own clinical confidence.

Mentorship has been a meaningful part of my own professional growth, and it is one of the reasons I am passionate about offering thoughtful, individualized support to other clinicians. My goal is to help SLPs feel more confident, curious, and clinically grounded as they grow within pediatric practice.

“While we teach, we learn.”

— Seneca