TheraPeeps

Pediatric Occupational Therapy for Babies, Toddlers & Children in the Bay Area

Therapeeps provides flexible, personalized pediatric Occupational Therapy services that fit seamlessly into your life. Our mobile OT team brings expert care right to your Bay Area doorstep, whether at home, private school, or daycare. In addition to individual services, we also offer nature-based therapeutic groups that help children build motor skills, increased confidence, and lifetime friendships in the great outdoors.

Our mission is to build upon a child's strengths and individual differences to promote independence in their daily life. We provide a holistic and play based approach to work in conjunction with parents, teachers, and health practitioners to create the best care plan for your child.

What is Relationship based Pediatric Occupational Therapy?

An occupational therapist is a healthcare provider who works with people to help them attain everyday living skills, such as bathing, dressing, playing, learning, and socializing.

Pediatric occupational therapy helps children develop the skills they need to participate confidently in everyday life. Whether it’s learning to play, feed themselves, regulate emotions, interact with others, or become more independent, occupational therapy supports development through meaningful, play-based experiences.

At TheraPeeps, we take a relationship-based approach to pediatric occupational therapy. We recognize that every child develops differently, so we look beyond a diagnosis to understand their strengths, sensory processing, environment, and relationships. Therapy is personalized to support each child’s unique developmental journey at home, school, and in the community.

Our therapists work with children experiencing a wide range of developmental challenges, including:

Sensory processing differences
Developmental delays
Feeding difficulties
Fine and gross motor delays
ADHD
Autism spectrum disorder
Cerebral palsy
Traumatic brain injuries
Learning differences, including dysgraphia
Emotional regulation and social participation challenges

Many of our therapists have advanced training in DIR/Floortime®, an evidence-informed developmental approach that strengthens social-emotional growth through meaningful relationships and play. We work closely with parents and caregivers to better understand each child's individual profile, helping families build stronger connections while supporting communication, regulation, learning, and everyday participation.

As a mobile pediatric occupational therapy practice, we provide services where children learn and grow best, including homes, private schools, daycares, and community settings throughout the Bay Area and Santa Cruz County like Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Saratoga, Los Gatos and San Jose.

Services We Offer

AT HOME SERVICES

Therapy in your Bay Area home, with a uniquely designed care plan.

TheraPeeps therapist working with child at Bay Area private school

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY SERVICES IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS

Individual Occupational Therapy or Therapeutic Playgroups in Bay Area Private Schools

Children playing outdoors — TheraPeeps nature-based pediatric OT

THERAPEUTIC PLAYGROUPS IN NATURAL SETTINGS

Therapeutic Playgroups for kids in Nature Based Settings

DEVELOPMENTAL RELATIONSHIP BASED INTERVENTIONS

Our certified DIR/Floortime therapists work with you during parent coaching sessions to provide the neuro affirming relationship based interventions.

SENSORY SPACE

Consultation on the design and implementation of home or community based sensory spaces.

RESOURCES

Check out some of my favorite toys and games which can be used as sensory tools every day.

Care for Every Stage of Development

Infants (0-12 Months)

Support for early milestones and healthy development, including tummy time, feeding, sensory regulation, head and neck control, rolling, reaching, and early motor skills.

Toddlers (1-3 Years)

Helping toddlers build confidence through play while developing fine motor skills, self-feeding, emotional regulation, sensory processing, communication, and independence in everyday routines.

Preschoolers (3-5 Years)

Supporting children as they prepare for school by improving play skills, attention, self-care, social participation, handwriting readiness, and emotional regulation.

School-Age Children (5+ Years)

Helping children succeed at home and in school through individualized support for handwriting, executive functioning, sensory processing, self-regulation, fine motor skills, and daily living activities.

Brooke Olson, OTR/L — founder of TheraPeeps pediatric occupational therapy

Our Story

Brooke is a Bay Area and Santa Cruz pediatric occupational therapist whose love for working with children began when she was in grade school helping her mom care for special-needs children.

As a mother of two, she is passionate about helping empower parents. Brooke helps Bay Area and Mountain View parents navigate what can be an overwhelming landscape of teachers, doctors, and clinics to provide a customized holistic treatment program for each unique child.

Brooke specializes in in-home therapy, and addresses the whole child, including their environment, culture, family, school, routines, and play. Using this “whole child” lens, she customizes a program to fit a child’s unique needs within their home, school, and community.

Brooke has a degree in Occupational Therapy and certifications in: Sensory Integration and Praxis Test Certification (SIPT), STAR Level 1 and 2, DIR/FCD Model CL1 and CL2, and trainer levels, Sequential Oral Sensory feeding approach (SOS), Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) and Integrated Listening Systems (iLs). Brooke partakes in ongoing mentoring with DIR/Floortime Profectum Foundation therapists and STAR therapists to maintain the most up to date practice in occupational Therapy.

Today, Brooke focuses primarily on mentoring and clinical oversight of the TheraPeeps team, ensuring every therapist delivers the same high standard of care she built the practice on.

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Testimonials

I am a child psychiatrist specializing in young children with complex medical, developmental, and behavioral health problems. I began working with Brooke in 2012 and had the wonderful opportunity to watch her evaluate and treat multiple children over the years. She is an outstanding OT!

Dr. Jeffery Rowe

Child Psychiatrist

My son, Alex, had traits of autism and ADHD as a toddler. Brooke started working with him in weekly sessions and with his teachers to help him through 1st and 2nd grade. He did better than I had ever imagined. He enjoyed Brooke so much, and was always excited for OT day. Erika Masuda

Dr. Erika Masuda

Parent

Brooke has been a huge help to our son and has gone above and beyond what we could have hoped for. She worked with us through the first few months of the pandemic and was able to make therapy fun in less-than-ideal circumstances.

Celia Ozereko

Parent

Ready to Get Started?

Call us today to get started, or fill out our intake form.

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What To Expect

1. Call us to schedule your intake and assessment

We will find the time that works best for you. During this initial phone call, your therapist will ask you questions to learn more about your child and your family’s needs. The intake paperwork will be emailed to you to complete at your convenience. Parent questionnaires may be emailed to you as part of the assessment process.

2. Assessment

This is a 1:1 comprehensive evaluation of your child that takes from 1-4 hours (depending on needs) and may be done over one or several days. This assessment includes clinical observations at your home and your child’s school, interviews with parents and teachers, standardized tests, and parent report forms. A written report of the results with recommendations for goals and treatment will be created.

3. Treatment

Treatment varies depending on age and diagnostic needs. Treatment will occur in person at your home. Typically, there are 30 one-on-one sessions conducted 3-5 times per week.

4. Ongoing Therapy or After-Treatment Consultations

Some families prefer to continue with ongoing therapy or consultation services after the completion of the initial 30 treatment sessions. These are done on a case-by-case basis, and goals are discussed between therapist and patients.

5. Groups for Bay Area Children

Groups are available and can be an excellent follow-on to the initial 30 treatment sessions.

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Pediatric occupational therapy based in Mountain View, California providing individualized Occupational Therapy services for children throughout the Bay Area including Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Menlo Park, Portola Valley. Now serving Santa Cruz County.