Looking for more info? Here are answers to common questions we get from parents
- 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.
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
- Cerebral Palsy
- Behavioral issues
- Speech/communication struggles
- Potty training
- Hyperactivity
- Self-help skills
- Picky eating
- Sensory issues
- And more…
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.
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 complementary 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.
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.
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.