TheraPeeps brings pediatric occupational therapy directly to your home in Saratoga. We work with families across the Saratoga Union Elementary School District and surrounding neighborhoods, delivering fine motor, handwriting, and self-regulation and emotional regulation therapy support where your child is already comfortable.

For families managing school pickups along Saratoga Avenue and afternoons on Highway 85, adding a clinic appointment is its own logistical burden. We remove that entirely. Sessions happen in your home, so your child arrives regulated and ready to work, not depleted from the drive. Our approach is neuro-affirming and relationship-based, built around your child’s nervous system, not a standardized protocol.

We offer a full range of pediatric OT services for children ages 0-8, delivered to your Saratoga home, private school, or daycare. Fine motor, handwriting, and self-regulation support are among our most-requested services for families in the Saratoga Union Elementary School District. We also see frequent referrals for sensory processing and feeding therapy.

Services are delivered in the environments where your child already lives and learns, so skills transfer into real daily life rather than remaining isolated to a clinic setting.

Our services include:

• Emotional and Self-Regulation (identifying feelings, managing meltdowns, building coping strategies)
• Fine Motor Skills and Handwriting (pencil grip, letter formation, scissor skills, endurance)
• Sensory Processing and Integration (certified SIPT and STAR clinicians)
• Feeding Therapy, SOS Approach (food selectivity, texture aversions, mealtime stress)
• Developmental Skill Building (play skills, independence, self-care routines)
• School Readiness and Executive Function Foundations
• DIR/Floortime (relationship-based developmental therapy)
• Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) for nervous system regulation
• Nature-Based Therapeutic Groups (seasonal, small-group outdoor sessions)
• Comprehensive Occupational Therapy Evaluations

Call us: (650) 204-0677

TheraPeeps works with children in Saratoga whose nervous systems need developmental support. Fine motor and handwriting delays, self-regulation challenges, and sensory sensitivities are among the most common reasons families reach out. No formal diagnosis is required to begin services. We support children across the following areas:

• Sensory Processing Disorder and sensory sensitivities
• Autism Spectrum Disorder (our lead clinician is Board Certified in Autism)
• ADHD and attention and impulse regulation difficulties
• Anxiety presenting as rigidity, avoidance, or emotional overwhelm
• Developmental delays (fine motor, gross motor, language-related motor skills)
• Dyspraxia and motor planning challenges
• Feeding difficulties and food selectivity
• Handwriting and pencil-skill delays
• Difficulty with transitions and flexible thinking
• Sleep and self-regulation challenges in early childhood
• Social-emotional learning delays
• Hypotonia (low muscle tone) affecting school performance and play

Call us: (650) 204-0677

Saratoga parents have excellent options, and high standards for who they trust with their children’s development. Here is why families across the Saratoga Union School District community choose TheraPeeps:

• We come to you. Therapy happens in your home, private school, or daycare, where your child is most regulated and where skills transfer most naturally to real life. No clinic, no commute.
• Our clinical credentials are exceptional. Our founder, Brooke Olson OTR/L, holds SIPT and STAR certifications in sensory integration therapy, is Board Certified in Autism, trained in the SOS Approach to Feeding, a 10+ year DIR/Floortime trainer, and certified in the Safe and Sound Protocol. Our team brings 20+ combined years of experience.
• We build regulation, not performance pressure. Saratoga parents understand that a child who is constantly braced for correction cannot actually learn. Our work is relationship-based and grounded in what each child’s nervous system needs, not in drilling compliance or repetition for its own sake. We focus on the self-regulation and sensory foundations that make it possible for a bright child to actually access what they know.
• We understand the Saratoga school context. We can communicate with Saratoga Union School District educators and IEP teams, helping align what we do at home with what your child needs in the classroom at Argonaut, Foothill, or Saratoga Elementary.
• We serve families throughout Saratoga. From neighborhoods near Argonaut and Foothill Elementary to areas around Redwood Middle School, we come to where your family is. If you are in a neighboring community such as Monte Sereno or the Los Gatos foothills, reach out and we will confirm whether your address is within our service area.

TheraPeeps is a private-pay practice. We provide a detailed superbill after each session, which is an itemized receipt with the diagnostic and procedure codes your insurance carrier needs to process an out-of-network claim. Many families are reimbursed a meaningful portion of therapy costs depending on their plan’s OON benefits.

Many Saratoga families have PPO coverage through large tech employers such as Apple, Google, or Meta, or through financial firms in San Jose and Santa Clara. These plans often carry strong out-of-network rehabilitation benefits. It is worth calling the member services number on your insurance card and asking specifically about OON occupational therapy benefits and your deductible status before assuming coverage does not apply. We are glad to help you navigate that conversation.

To discuss fees and get started, call us at (650) 204-0677 or use the Book an Evaluation link below.

Call us: (650) 204-0677

My child goes to school in the Saratoga Union School District, can you coordinate with their teacher or IEP team?

Yes, and we encourage it. Collaboration with school teams is one of the most impactful things we can do for a child’s progress. If your child is enrolled at Argonaut, Foothill, or Saratoga Elementary and has an IEP or 504 plan, or if you are in the process of requesting an evaluation through the district, we can communicate directly with their teacher or school OT (with your written consent) to make sure our home-based goals reinforce what they are working on in the classroom. Consistent language and strategies across settings accelerates outcomes significantly.

How does occupational therapy support children in high-achieving academic environments like Saratoga?

In communities like Saratoga, where Saratoga High School ranks in the top 1% in California and academic expectations start early, children who struggle with emotional regulation, fine motor skills, or sensory processing often experience that struggle as shame, because they can sense the gap between what is expected and what they can currently produce. OT addresses the root causes of those gaps. We build the self-regulation, attention, and motor foundations that allow children to access their full capability. A child who can manage frustration, sit comfortably in a classroom, and get their thoughts onto paper with a pencil is in a far better position to succeed, not because we pushed them, but because we gave them the tools.

Do you serve families in the Saratoga Village area and surrounding neighborhoods?

Absolutely. We serve families throughout Saratoga, including the Saratoga Village area, neighborhoods near Hakone Gardens and Montalvo Arts Center, and surrounding communities. Because we are mobile, we come to your home, so your location within Saratoga is not a barrier. If you are just outside the Saratoga city limits (for example, in Monte Sereno or the Los Gatos foothills), reach out and we will let you know if we can accommodate your address.

What is the difference between the school district’s OT services and private OT through TheraPeeps?

School-based OT through the Saratoga Union Elementary School District and the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District is tied directly to special education eligibility and is scoped to what a child needs in order to access their educational program. That is a meaningful service, but it excludes children who do not qualify for an IEP, limits frequency to what the district determines is educationally necessary, and does not address what is happening at home, at mealtimes, or in the wider social and sensory world a child lives in. Private OT through TheraPeeps covers that broader territory: emotional regulation, sensory processing, feeding, parent coaching, and the foundational self-regulation skills that benefit a child in every setting. Many Saratoga families work with both, using school OT for classroom access and TheraPeeps for everything else.

My child is under three, is it too early for occupational therapy?

It is never too early, and in Saratoga, early access is more realistic than many families expect. Because TheraPeeps comes to you, there is no waitlist for a clinic across town and no logistical barrier that delays the start of services by months. We serve children from birth through age eight, and the infant and toddler years are when the nervous system is most responsive to support. Pediatricians in the area are generally conservative about referrals, often advising families to wait and see, but if you are noticing feeding difficulties, unusual sensitivity to touch or sound, or motor development that seems behind, an early evaluation gives you real information rather than uncertainty. The earlier a child’s nervous system gets the right input, the less catching up they need to do later.