We have trusted Jamie and Brian with our son for the past six years. We couldn’t be any happier and highly recommend Right Starts. Not only are they skilled, professional, and get results—but more importantly, their hearts are made of gold. My son loves them as much as they love him.
Modalities We Use
Our Expertise
Occupational Therapy focuses on the whole person -mind, body, and spirit- to enable individuals of all ages to participate in everyday life tasks. Holistic Occupational Therapy combines traditional OT interventions with integrative health modalities in order to collapse the timeline of healing to achieve faster results and create lasting change. The integrative modalities utilized in therapy help to optimize the human body so every session is a success. Patients that are best fit for our practice are those that are open to holistic care and are willing to be active participants on their pathway to healing.
Brain Based Modalities
At Right Starts, we value “neurological readiness”. We believe in activating the brain and regulating the nervous system prior to working on functional skills and utilize a variety of modalities in order to do so. With proper neurological activation and organization in place, patients are then able to engage in new learning and take on challenging tasks with greater success.
Functional Modalities
Optimal outcomes come fastest by addressing the body in its entirety. Our Functional Modalities allow us to get “right to the root” of the interferences that are impacting the inner terrain of the body and begin promoting healing. By supporting proper detoxification, healing the gut, clearing emotions and releasing tension patterns within the fascial system, lasting changes are made.
Vision Based Modalities
Interferences in the visual system can have a huge impact on a person and are often the root cause of attention deficits, learning challenges, headache disorders, difficulties with gait and balance, etc. We incorporate multiple modalities to activate and strengthen the visual system as a way to engage the entire sensory system within each treatment. For those patients needing more specialized care to address the root cause, we refer our patients to neuro and developmental optometry specialists and happily incorporate their recommendations into our plan of care. Read More
Pathways to Healing
Beginning a wellness journey can often feel like entering uncharted territory. At Right Starts, we come alongside our patients and their caregivers to co-create a course of treatment prioritizing the individual needs and goals of our patients. Drawing on our unique perspective as holistic OTs and parents ourselves, we help our patients find the most direct pathway to success. Our respect for the intricate connectedness of the human body drives our passion for finding the root causes to our patient’s challenges and employing a multitude of holistic modalities to address those challenges on a foundational level. We call our treatment a “Healing Pathway”. Each patient’s personalized pathway serves as a guide through the various stages of wellness and development.
Testimonials
When our 9 month old contracted life-threatening bacterial meningitis we contacted Jaime and Brian on our way out the door to the emergency room. Right Starts OT held our hand the entire time we were in the hospital, supporting us in ways we didn’t even know we needed. The owners were the driving force behind our discharge plan that allowed us to bring our medically fragile baby home during a time of Covid, a worldwide Pandemic. The hospital was pushing us to discharge to inpatient rehab and we just knew it wasn’t the right plan for us. Jaime and Brian supported us through a family planning meeting where we presented a telehealth team that we were fully confident would guide us towards full recovery. Jaime and Brian have directly treated our son for the last 8 months. With the support of the OT practice treating him weekly and providing family goals for wrap around support, this miracle baby has made gains to close the developmental gap that his neurosurgeon and neurologist say is the fastest rate of recovery in their career!! I can truly say this recovery was possible because of Right Starts Occupational Therapy.
When my son first arrived at Right Starts’ door, he was struggling on many levels and needed systemic support. Previous therapeutic approaches seemed to be able to identify specific areas of importance, but did not address his needs as a whole person and showed limited, one-dimensional results. The McHales’ approach is on an entirely different level. As experienced practitioners with a diverse complimentary tool bag, they see the client through the many lenses of their various skills and tailor their work to the client. I am always impressed how they observe and adapt to my son each session, meeting him where he is that day. However, and perhaps most profoundly, their genius is the ability to look at the client and see a pathway that maps strategy and clear steps to build long term, comprehensive support and healing progress. It is truly life changing to find practitioners who have the insight and hard won talent to grasp the whole picture with you and empower health. As a parent, I have benefited by learning new ways to notice and respond to my son’s needs and have gained tools to advance his development. At this point, he has been with Right Starts half of his life and he is completely transformed from the person who first entered the door. I never imagined he’d be doing the things he is today, and I can say without a doubt that Right Starts played a starring role in making these prayers a reality. Thank you!
My family and I have been lucky to have been introduced to Right Starts and we could not be anymore grateful for their guidance and support. We love the welcoming, homey atmosphere and they are always so calm, yet attentive to our family’s needs. Life can be crazy when you are a parent to a child who requires sensory or behavioral support and they have always been so helpful and never steer us wrong.
The McHales are very knowledgeable on utilizing advanced & regular techniques to help create better health, function and wellness for their clients. They take a very caring and compassionate approach with every child.
I wouldn’t trust my son to go anywhere else. Jaime and Brian are professional, loving, understanding, and everything you’d want in an OT for your child. We have seen so much progress, and are so grateful for their work with our boy!