Pediatric Occupational Therapy in Menlo Park, CA

TheraPeeps serves families throughout Menlo Park, delivering pediatric occupational therapy directly to your home, your child’s school, or their daycare. Our lead service in Menlo Park is DIR/Floortime therapy and parent coaching, a relationship-based, developmentally grounded framework that puts you at the center of your child’s therapeutic work.

Parent coaching is built into our clinical model, not added on as an option. You learn the strategies. You carry them forward between sessions. We welcome your questions about clinical reasoning and the evidence behind every method we use. Sessions come to you, whether you are in Belle Haven, Sharon Heights, or anywhere else in the Menlo Park City School District area. There is no clinic commute, no 101 at Willow Road at the end of the day, and no disruption to your child’s routine.

TheraPeeps offers the full range of in-home pediatric occupational therapy services to families in Menlo Park, delivered in your home, your child’s daycare, or their school. We build sessions around your schedule and your goals. Services include:

• Parent Coaching and DIR/Floortime (our most requested service for Menlo Park families)
• Sensory Processing and Sensory Integration Therapy (SIPT and STAR certified)
• Emotional and Self-Regulation Support
• Fine Motor Skills and Handwriting Development
• Feeding Therapy (SOS Approach trained)
• Developmental Skill-Building (play, executive function, independence)
• Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) for nervous system regulation
• Nature-Based Therapeutic Groups
• Autism Support (Board Certified in Autism)
• Evaluations and Individualized Treatment Plans

DIR/Floortime and parent coaching are our most requested services in Menlo Park, because they give you an active role in your child’s development rather than a passive one. Sensory regulation work is often the entry point. From there, we build a treatment plan shaped around the whole child and the whole family. We commonly work with children experiencing:

• Sensory processing differences (over- or under-responsivity to touch, sound, movement, or taste)
• Autism Spectrum Disorder and related developmental profiles
• ADHD and attention or impulse regulation challenges
• Anxiety and emotional dysregulation
• Feeding difficulties and food aversions
• Developmental delays (motor, language-adjacent, social)
• Dyspraxia and motor planning difficulties
• Handwriting and fine motor delays
• Trauma-informed nervous system dysregulation
• Hypotonia (low muscle tone)

Call us: (650) 204-0677

Here is what distinguishes TheraPeeps for families in Menlo Park:

• Parent coaching is central to our model, not supplemental. You learn the strategies alongside your child and carry them forward between sessions. This produces more regulated, more capable children over time.
• Our practice is fully mobile. There is no clinic, no waiting room, and no commute. We work in the environment where your child actually lives.
• Founder Brooke Olson, OTR/L holds SIPT and STAR certification in sensory integration, Board Certification in Autism, SOS Approach training for feeding, and is a trained DIR/Floortime clinician with 10+ years of practice. Our team brings 20+ combined years of clinical experience.
• Our work is relationship-based and developmentally grounded. DIR/Floortime and sensory integration are the frameworks we use: approaches where the parent-child relationship is the primary therapeutic tool. We explain our clinical reasoning at every step, and we welcome questions about the evidence base behind what we do.
• Families across Belle Haven and Sharon Heights trust us because we show up consistently, communicate directly, and hold a high clinical standard.

TheraPeeps is a private-pay practice. We work with you directly rather than billing insurance, and we provide detailed superbills after every session so you can submit for out-of-network reimbursement on your own timeline. Many families in Menlo Park, including those with employer-sponsored PPO plans through companies near Meta headquarters or along Sand Hill Road, find that their plans include meaningful OON occupational therapy coverage. We encourage you to call the member services number on the back of your insurance card and ask specifically about OON pediatric OT coverage. Reimbursement rates vary, but many families recover a significant portion of session costs.

Contact us at (650) 204-0677 to discuss fees, frequency recommendations, and what to expect at an initial evaluation.

Call us: (650) 204-0677

Do you serve the Belle Haven neighborhood of Menlo Park?

Yes, absolutely. Belle Haven is one of Menlo Park’s most distinct and close-knit neighborhoods, and we are proud to serve families there. Because we are a fully mobile practice, we come to you, whether you are near the Bayfront, closer to Willow Road, or anywhere else in Menlo Park. There is no geographic restriction within our service area.

How involved can I be as a parent in my child’s OT sessions?

Very involved, and we actively encourage it. Parent coaching and DIR/Floortime are at the heart of how we work with Menlo Park families. Rather than dropping your child off and waiting outside, you are often right there in the session, learning the strategies alongside your child, asking questions, and building the skills to support regulation and development throughout the week. We find this model produces faster, more lasting results, and it is especially meaningful for parents who want to truly understand what is happening in their child’s nervous system, not just receive a report after the fact.

My spouse travels frequently for work. How does TheraPeeps accommodate a single-parent-at-home schedule?

We hear this often from Menlo Park families, and we have built our practice around it. Because we come to your home, there is no transportation burden on top of an already stretched schedule. We work with you to find session times that fit around school drop-off, daycare pickup, and the rhythms of running a household largely solo during busy travel weeks. We also place a strong emphasis on parent coaching precisely because we want you to feel equipped between sessions, not dependent on us being there for your child to make progress.

What is DIR/Floortime and why is it a good fit for our family?

DIR/Floortime is a relationship-based developmental framework created by Dr. Stanley Greenspan. Rather than targeting isolated skills in a structured drill format, it works by following the child’s lead, building emotional connection, and expanding developmental capacities through play and interaction. It is especially effective for children with sensory processing differences, autism, or emotional regulation challenges. For Menlo Park families who want to be active participants in therapy, not passive observers, Floortime is a natural fit because it teaches you, the parent, how to engage in ways that support your child’s neurological development throughout everyday life.

How is TheraPeeps different from a clinic-based OT practice?

The most important difference is context. When therapy happens in a clinic, the child has to learn a skill and then transfer it home, a step that is often harder than the skill itself. When we work in your home, we are addressing the real sensory environment, the actual couch cushions your child jumps on, the real kitchen where mealtimes feel hard, and the actual bedroom routine where transitions fall apart. Gains made at home generalize faster and stick longer. For busy Menlo Park families, eliminating the clinic commute is also a practical benefit that makes consistent therapy sustainable.