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Psychologist

Our psychologist isn’t here to “change” a child. They’re here to create a space where the child feels safe, accepted, and genuinely heard.
Helps parents better understand their child and respond to their needs in ways that actually work.
Supports children in recognizing, accepting, and freely expressing their emotions.
Helps kids work through anxiety, fears, stress, and other hard things.
Builds self-confidence and a sense of being valued and respected.
Develops communication skills – listening, expressing thoughts, and forming healthy relationships at home and beyond.

Special Education Teacher

Assesses children with special educational needs, getting a clear picture of each child’s developmental profile and the nature of any cognitive or physical challenges they face.
Identifies each child’s strengths alongside their areas for growth.
Creates individualized development plans for use at the center, and individualized education plans for use at school.
Sets clear goals, activities, and structure for every session.
Works closely with school teachers and parents, offering guidance and helping educators adapt how they teach using specialized strategies.

Speech Therapist

Helps children find and use their voice, formulating speech and expressing thoughts and feelings.
Supports the development of both verbal and non-verbal communication.
Helps children understand what’s being said to them and respond in a timely, meaningful way.
Builds age-appropriate vocabulary and connected speech.
Helps children retell experiences from their own lives.
Supports children in forming questions and taking part in back-and-forth conversations.
Helps children use speech as a real tool, to ask for things, express how they feel, and share what they want.

Hard-of-Hearing Teacher

Supports children in using alternative ways to communicate, including sign language and fingerspelling.
Promotes the development of verbal expression – sounds, words, and connected speech.
Helps children participate fully in the learning process and access their right to education.
Develops lip-reading skills.
Heps children make the most of their residual hearing through modern hearing devices and technology.

Music Therapy

Gives children a way to express what’s hard to say in words – joy, sadness, and everything in between.
Helps children better understand and manage their emotions.
Strengthens memory, attention, and other cognitive skills.
Opens the door to group musical activities where children can connect and collaborate.
Builds communication, cooperation, and teamwork.
Activates multiple senses and helps children understand and respond to their sensory world.
Supports language development and speech.
Builds confidence.

Adaptive Physical Education

Creates a safe, supportive space where every child can be physically active at whatever level works for them.
Develops motor skills, balance, and strength through exercises that are specially adapted to each child.
Adapts games, exercises, and equipment so every child can take part safely and effectively.
Teaches children to follow instructions, stay focused, remember sequences, and manage their own behavior.
Group activities help children cooperate, take turns, connect with peers, and feel like part of a team.

Art Therapy

Supports sensory development and helps children regulate how they take in the world around them.
Helps children recognize and safely express their emotions.
Releases mental and physical tension.
Encourages self-awareness and finding new ways to express oneself.
Builds communication and creative skills.
Builds communication and creative skills.
Boosts motivation.
Develops social skills and the ability to work and play with others in group settings.

Social Pedagogue

Listens to children, helps them make sense of their feelings, and shows them they don’t have to face things alone.
Works with parents and teachers to create environments where children feel safe, respected, and accepted.
Helps children build and grow their social skills.
Runs group discussions, role-playing activities, and situation-based conversations that help children practice listening, cooperating, compromising, resolving conflict peacefully, and taking responsibility.
Supports children through difficult situations helping them understand what’s happening and figure out a way forward.

Therapeutic Horticulture

Being in nature and caring for plants helps children slow down and feel calm. Stress just drops.
Develops hand and finger coordination, strength, and fine motor skills.

Engages all the senses, giving children a grounding, nourishing way to connect with the natural world.
Turns nature into a place of play and discovery.
In group sessions, children learn to cooperate, listen to each other, and solve problems together.

Professional services