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Whole-child, whole-family care delivered by a coordinated team: evidence-based therapies at the core, trauma-informed across every discipline, and parents who leave with real skills, not session notes.

Whole-child, whole-family care.
We treat the child in front of us, the family around them, and the home they go back to at the end of the day. The child shows up at our door with a presentation; you show up with twelve months of context. We need both.
That means: parents are in the care plan from week one. The treating clinicians meet with you regularly. The plan we build together accounts for what's happening at home, at school, and across the rest of your child's week.
Who the day program serves: both levels of the day program, PHP and IOP, are built for children ages 5–12. If your child is younger, call us and we'll point you to the right starting place.
"We don't deliver verdicts. We make decisions together."
Evidence-based therapy at the core.
The clinical core of our program is a set of evidence-based therapies: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, DBT-informed skills work for emotion regulation and distress tolerance, Floortime, family systems therapy, motivational interviewing, expressive arts, and Social Skills Training. Your child doesn't get all seven by default; they get the ones that fit, woven into a single plan.
No single method holds this program together. The team does. The therapist running your child's CBT sessions sits in the same weekly meeting as the OT, the SLP, and the psychiatrist, so every discipline pulls toward the same goals.
What this looks like in practice:
- Modalities matched to the child: CBT for anxious or stuck thinking, DBT-informed skills for big feelings, Floortime for relationship-based developmental play, expressive arts when words aren't there yet
- Social Skills Training: modeling and teaching children ecologically valid, age- and developmentally-appropriate social skills they will actually use in their daily lives
- Sessions structured around what the child brings into the room that day
- Parent coaching in the same skills, so what works here works at home
- Progress tracked in real-world function, not just symptom checklists

What's included in the program.
Every child's plan is built from the same set of disciplines. Which ones your child gets, and how often, comes out of the evaluation — nobody receives all ten by default, and none of them is something you book on its own. They are delivered inside PHP or IOP, by clinicians who meet weekly about your child.
- Behavioral health therapy — the clinical core, individual and group
- Individual therapy — one-on-one, in the modality matched to the plan
- Group therapy — peer skills practised with actual peers
- Family therapy and parent training — weekly, for every family
- Occupational therapy — sensory integration, motor planning, daily-living skills
- Speech-language therapy — expressive and receptive language, articulation, social communication
- Psychiatric care — on-team medication management, when it is part of the plan
- Pediatric nutrition — growth, appetite, and family nutrition support
- Case management — one coordinator for schools, insurance, and outside providers
- Educational support — academic continuity while your child is with us
Each discipline has a page of its own describing how it runs inside a PHP or IOP day.
Trauma-informed, sensory-aware.
Every clinician on our team is trained in trauma-informed practice. Not just the therapists. The OT knows. The speech-language pathologist knows. The case manager and the front-desk team know. A pediatric program either is trauma-informed across the board, or it isn't.
Sensory awareness is built into the building. Low-stim rooms by default. Soft acoustics, low-glare lighting, dedicated quiet corners. An outdoor nature space the children help tend. Predictable transitions, no surprise schedule changes.
This isn't decoration. The environment regulates before we ask the child to.
Family is on the team.
Parent training and family therapy are part of the program, not an optional add-on. You'll leave the program with skills, confidence, and routines that hold together at home. The point isn't that we're the experts on your child. The point is that you are, and we make sure you have the tools.
Practical commitments:
- Weekly family therapy for every family with your child's lead clinician (the same cadence at both levels of care, PHP and IOP alike)
- Parent coaching in the modalities your child responds to, so what works in our building works in yours
- Sibling support when needed: siblings of children with intensive needs carry their own load
- School coordination with your permission, including IEP teams
One coordinated team. One care plan.
Our team meets weekly about every child in the program. The therapist, the OT, the SLP, the psychiatrist, the case manager, and the educational coordinator are in the same room (or on the same call), looking at the same plan.
This is what we built the program around. It's the reason the headline of this website is "One team. One place. One plan." It's also why you only have to tell your child's story once. Instead of carrying information between systems, you get to be your child's parent.
Read more about the leadership setting the standard of care, or see what a typical day looks like in the program.
Every page in the Program section.
Day Treatment (PHP)
Higher-acuity day treatment, M–F 8:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Home each night.
Learn moreIntensive Outpatient (IOP)
After-school programming, M–F 3:30–6:30 p.m. Same building.
Learn moreA day in the program
Embedded therapies, small consistent groups, individualized schedule.
Learn moreOutcomes
Developmental gains, real-world function, family empowerment.
Learn moreTell us about your child.
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