GroWild in partnership with Optimal Therapy Works is excited to offer two signature class series each led by Dr. Courtney McIntyre, OTD, OTR/L a licensed pediatric occupational therapist with advanced training in Ayers Sensory Integration, child lead play therapy, and parent coaching.

Guardian Groups: Designed for caregivers and their children, these developmental based groups blend child-led play with real time parent coaching. Guardian Groups support coaching caregivers through different developmental stages with focuses on motor development, emotional resiliency, emotional regulation, sensory exploration, social connection, and so much more. Groups are intimate with no more than 8 children, allowing families to build a peer support groups, play mates for children all while learning evidence-based parenting strategies to carry home.

Thrive & Grow Workshops: Child and Adolescence enrichment classes are small inclusive cohort targeting creativity, self exploration, , sensory motor integration, social exploration, confidence building, and self-advocacy. Thrive and grow workshops often centered around crafts and collaborative creating can be adapted on the fly by an occupational therapist to meet each learners needs. Workshops are safe engaging place for children and adolescence to build friendship, explore new interest and grow into the best version of themselves while building skills that carry over to home and school