Frequently Asked Questions 

Pariva team members meet with parents and children to craft a customized support plan based on specific goals, challenges, family dynamics, and needs.

• Led by a dedicated clinician.
• Uses therapeutic interventions for skill development — whether language, adaptive, cognitive, social, or other areas.
• Addresses developmental gaps.
• Enhances mental well-being for all family members, including offering mental health and self-care support for parents and/or siblings as needed.

What truly differentiates Pariva’s program is our empowering of parents to help their children in everyday life, and to do so in fun and engaging ways. The consistency this creates is powerful; family engagement has been shown to bring the best outcomes for everyone. We recommend curated activities, home interventions, and routines that can transform families — and we regularly seek parent feedback so we can tweak our recommendations as results and circumstances evolve. Our learning-through-play philosophy and the customized play kits we mail to families every six weeks bolster the efficacy and fun factor of our program. Initially, parents can expect virtual meetings with their multidisciplinary team three times a week, involving the child as needed, to make sure parents are comfortable in utilizing the activities noted on their family support plan.

Pariva tailors its support plans for each individual family, which means our psychologists, therapists, and clinicians can help with many different situations. However, we tend to focus on children ages 3-12. Parents seek out Pariva for a broad range of reasons, such as:

• Developmental delays
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• ADHD, ADD.
• Social/emotional skills
• Slow learners / learning disabilities
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Down Syndrome

• Developmental delays
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• ADHD, ADD.
• Social/emotional skills
• Slow learners / learning disabilities
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Down Syndrome

We typically can schedule an initial meeting within days, depending upon a family’s availability. That accessibility is a top priority at Pariva, because we know the stats — such as that 1 in 6 U.S. children are diagnosed with developmental delays. But with today’s shortage in healthcare workers, families may wait months to receive any help. Our telehealth accessibility, plus our strategy of training and supporting parents as co-therapists and partners in the progress of their children, seeks to achieve meaningful results in less time.

Yes. While it does take some time to do our in-depth family assessments and craft customized therapeutic treatment plans, we offer ideas that you can start using right away. Each time you talk with your clinician, we seek your feedback and tweak or change approaches to fit your family dynamics and needs.

Our model creates an invaluable continuity of care. Even if you’re waiting to get your child into a specialist — which, with today’s shortages of healthcare workers, can take months or years — Pariva can fill the gap, empowering you in the waiting. Parents are the consistent presence that can help children at any point before, during, after — or absent — a diagnosis.

Our Family Support Program revolutionizes traditional models of care, which tend to focus primarily on a struggling child with little parental engagement. Pariva clinicians provide customized training for parents, in addition to helping children. We believe that our family empowerment and engagement model — equipping parents with the tools needed to “help a child, even …” when no professionals are around — ultimately yields stronger outcomes, improved quality of life for the whole family, and lower overall cost of care.

In addition, we understand the typical ebbs and flows of parenting, as well as how particularly challenging seasons can create stress for an entire family. Because of that, our support includes empathetic discussion of the struggles faced by parents or other family members, and we offer help as needed.

On a purely practical note, our telehealth approach simplifies appointments for families, and our play-based innovations — including regular play-based learning kits sent via mail — make progress meaningful, engaging, and fun.

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Our Family Support Program hinges on the belief that empowering and engaging families makes for better outcomes and quality of life, which ultimately means spending less money on care in the long term.

We also accept most health insurance plans. Please note: You DO NOT need a formal diagnosis for our treatment to be covered by insurance.

If you don’t have insurance, reach out, and we can share our private pay rates with you.

No. Our model creates an invaluable continuity of care, even if your child has never received a formal diagnosis. Parents are the consistent presence that can help children.

If you’re waiting to get your child into a specialist — which, with today’s shortages of care, can take months or years — Pariva can fill the gap, empowering you in the waiting and eventually coordinating efforts with your specialist, if desired.

Notably, insurance can help cover our services, even without a formal diagnosis.

In addition, if you are seeking a diagnosis, we now offer virtual diagnostic evaluations in certain states, and we’ll continue expanding that service.

Yes. Pariva clinicians can work with specialists to provide complimentary and coordinated care. Our efforts to empower parents as co-therapists ensure consistency and continuity of care, thus propelling children — and their families — to stronger, long-lasting outcomes.

Typically, families are with Pariva for nine months, but many families choose to continue with our support program for longer periods of time. Families who have been with us for 15 months report a two-thirds decrease in overall stress levels, and children showed marked improvement across multiple developmental categories.

Our telehealth approach has multifaceted benefits. Of particular importance to us: Enabling families to seamlessly weave our care into their schedules, which means not only convenience but much-needed consistency. In addition, telehealth works, based on both our experience and outside studies. Peer-reviewed research has found that telehealth is an effective medium for delivering parent-mediated interventions for children with autism, disruptive behavior, and other conditions. Our clinicians have crafted strategies based on telehealth best practices and the Pariva team’s treatment experiences.

Read more about telehealth and our approach here.

Think of Pariva’s model as educating parents to become co-therapists. We depend heavily on parental involvement because we have seen the incredible results that come from holistic family engagement and continuity of care. As such, our clinicians typically spend more time meeting with parents than with children. While the transition during the first few weeks may require perseverance from parents, once routines and therapeutic treatment plans are established, parental stress ebbs and children make strides. After 15 months with Pariva, two-thirds of parents reported decreased stress levels, and children showed marked improvement across multiple developmental categories.

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