Our Approach
We don’t believe
in “never-ending” therapy
Whether your family is new to pediatric therapy or arriving here after years of it, the goal is the same: real progress, with a real finish line. Children build motor, sensory, and communication skills fastest through focused, concentrated practice over defined timeframes — not indefinite weekly check-ins. So we work in structured programs with clear goals, measurable progress, and a defined endpoint.
The Growing Gains Standard
Real progress happens between sessions — in living rooms, classrooms, and everyday moments. Every Growing Gains program includes the support that makes skills stick where it counts.
Weekly Written
Summaries
A clear recap after every session, so you always know what we worked on and what to practice at home.
Parent
Coaching
Specific strategies and routines that turn your everyday time with your child into real practice.
Direct School
Coordination
We talk to teachers, IEP teams, and specialists directly — one unified plan, actively managed.
Insurance
Support
Detailed superbills ready to submit, so families can recoup a meaningful portion of out-of-network costs.
Our Approach
The Episode of
Care Approach
Pediatric therapy is most effective when it's focused, time-limited, and built around clear goals — not stretched indefinitely across years of weekly sessions. Our Episode of Care model treats therapy the way it should be treated: as a focused stretch of work with an intentional beginning and end, with measurable progress in between. Think of it less as ongoing appointments and more as a structured program your child completes.
Clinical Judgment First
We're private-pay by design, which means your child's care is shaped by clinical evidence and expert judgment — not session limits dictated by an insurance company.
Momentum & Retention
Skills develop faster when practice is concentrated and consistent. Intensive, time-limited work helps children lock in new abilities far more effectively than sporadic weekly sessions stretched over years.
Honest Timelines
You'll know what "done" looks like from day one — the goals we're working toward, how we'll measure them, and roughly when we expect to get there. No moving goalposts, no indefinite enrollment
About Growing Gains
Growing Gains was founded to support the children that traditional systems often struggle with — the ones whose needs don't fit neatly into a 45-minute weekly slot, and the families who've been left to coordinate it all alone. We serve as the clinical anchor: a steady hand when things get difficult, and the precise expertise needed to keep your child moving forward.
Meet Christine
PT, DPT — Founder, Growing Gains Therapy
Christine Beavers is a licensed pediatric physical therapist and the founder of Growing Gains Therapy. A Doctor of Physical Therapy with training from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, she has worked in NYC pediatric settings since 2018 — across private special education schools, early intervention, and home care, and most recently several years at the Cooke School and Institute, primarily supporting neurodivergent students with language-based learning disabilities and developmental disabilities.
Her clinical approach is neuroaffirming, play-based, and rooted in real-world function. She's as likely to work on subway stairs and playground equipment as she is on a clinic mat — because the skills children need to build are the ones that show up in their actual lives in New York City.