Parenting a child with special needs comes with unique challenges. Choosing the right therapy can feel overwhelming with so many options available. At our Brooklyn DIR/Floortime Clinic, we focus on what truly matters — helping your child build meaningful connections, emotional regulation, and confidence through play and relationships.
What is DIR/Floortime?
DIR, or Developmental Individualized Relationship Based Therapy, also known as the Floortime approach, was developed by Dr. Stanley Greenspan and Dr. Serena Wieder. This evidence-based model builds on your child’s natural interests and motivations to strengthen emotional development, thinking, and problem solving.
Rather than relying on external rewards, Floortime invites children to engage joyfully through play, conversation, and imagination — at their own pace and from a foundation of trust and connection.
How Our Approach Works
• Child-Led, Relationship-Based: We meet each child where they are emotionally and developmentally. Sessions use toys, games, and symbolic play to help children express themselves, connect, and think more flexibly.
• Parent Involvement: Parents play an essential role. Our therapists support and collaborate with families so that the strategies learned in sessions become part of everyday life.
• Skill Building Through Joy: From regulation and attention to communication and social confidence, every moment of play is an opportunity to strengthen core developmental skills.
• Confidence Through Independence: We support children to discover their own problem-solving abilities rather than imitating others. The goal is a confident, self-directed thinker ready to thrive in the real world.
Why Families Choose Our Clinic
Our therapists have decades of experience helping children with developmental, social, emotional, and behavioral needs. DIR/Floortime is a proven model that transforms not only how children relate to others but also how families connect and grow together. Even one to two sessions per week can translate into meaningful gains for the entire family.
