Reach for the Top Therapy Services

10/30/2025

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃👻🧡 What are you dressing up as this year?

Vote for the best group costume group by 👍LIKING the picture of your favorite group! 1 LIKE = 1 Vote. Voting will take place all week long, and all votes must be in by 6PM on Thursday, 11/6!!

10/30/2025

🌿 Why It Matters

In New Hampshire, children often wait months—or even years—for mental health care. At Reach, we believe no child should have to wait to be seen, supported, or safe. 💚

By integrating mental health services directly into our interdisciplinary therapy model, we’re bridging the gap—so children can access emotional and developmental care together with occupational, speech, and physical therapy.

When families walk through our doors, they find more than therapy. They find connection, safety, and hope.

💫 Your Support Makes This Possible

Together, we can:
🌱 Deliver life-changing, trauma-informed care to help children heal and thrive
🤝 Strengthen families through responsive, relationship-based support
🌈 Build resilience and hope for children who’ve experienced adversity
💖 Create Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) that rewire the brain toward healing, confidence, and lifelong well-being

✨ Now Accepting Referrals — Immediate Openings!
Our licensed clinical social worker, Chelsea Zarcone, LICSW, CBIS, provides trauma- and neuro-informed therapy for children and families.

📞 Call today to schedule — a few after-school and daytime spots remain!
💰 Low-cost private pay options available during insurance credentialing delays
🕊️ Medicaid families may join our priority waitlist

💚 This Giving Tuesday, help us grow our Mental Health Program
More coming soon on how your gifts will expand a child's access to mental health care—helping them feel safe, seen, and supported without the long wait.

10/29/2025

🎃👻 It’s almost spook-tacular time at Reach!

Our team is getting ready to dress up for Halloween tomorrow, and we can’t wait to see everyone’s creative costumes and festive spirit! Stay tuned for some fun photos and friendly competition 👀🧙‍♀️🕸️

10/28/2025

🐾 Tomorrow’s National Cat Day! Ever notice a child meowing, crawling, or “acting like a cat” when they’re anxious or unsure how to join a group or meet a new person? It’s more common than you think—many children instinctively slip into an animal mode when big feelings make social situations feel overwhelming.

At Reach, our therapists use a child-led, play-based model to support these moments with empathy and curiosity:
✨ Join the Play – Instead of asking them to “stop,” we might gently meow back, showing we see and accept them.

🧩 Follow Their Lead – We use pretend play to build connection, offering opportunities to invite others into the “cat game.”

💛 Approach with Curiosity and Support Naming the Feeling – When they’re ready, we help put words to the experience: “I wonder if it felt safer to be a cat when the room was busy.” OR “It looks like it was hard to leave therapy today. I see your cat is crawling slowly.”

🌱 Build Coping Skills – Through playful practice—deep breathing, movement breaks, or quiet corners—we support new strategies for comfort and confidence.

By respecting a child’s way of communicating, we turn a moment of uncertainty into a pathway for growth, trust, and self-expression.

Happy National Cat Day to every child (and grown-up!) who’s ever needed to “be a cat” for a while. 🐱💫

10/28/2025

🌿 Welcoming More Mental Health Clients at Reach!

Meet Chelsea Zarcone, LICSW, CBIS
Trauma- & Neuro-Informed Clinical Social Worker

Chelsea provides compassionate, developmentally informed support for children and families—collaborating closely with our OTs, SLPs, and PTs to deliver truly whole-child care. 💚

💫 How We Can Help
✅ Trauma & Neuro-Informed Support — For trauma processing, anxiety, depression, and emotional regulation.

✅ Collaborative, Integrated Care — Mental health services within our full therapy team.

✅ Family & Caregiver Coaching — Strengthening confidence, connection, and everyday coping.

✅ Support for Life’s Transitions — Grief, family changes, school stress, or medical challenges.

✅ Coping & Self-Regulation Skills — Play-based tools for mindfulness, problem-solving, and resilience.

✅ Complex Needs Support — For Autistic children, ADHDers, ODD, DMDD, PTSD, and more.

✅ Community Connections — Linking families with local resources and school supports.

⚡ Referrals Open Now — Limited Spots Available!

10/28/2025

🎃💚 Holiday Resource for any families in need of continuing a meaningful family tradition this spooky season!

While at an event this weekend, we heard a mom say to her child when they asked if they could get a pumpkin to carve like last year, that the mom said "sorry honey we cant get one this year.". I waited til after the mom put the child in their car and then asked if I could get them a pumpkin. She at first said no they were ok, but we talked for a minute and she explained she relies on food stamps and this year with questions about what happens with the shutdown, she has to watch all her expenses. I gave her money to get 2 pumpkins, one for her child and one for her. It's something they have done together since the child was born. She cried, she asked if she could hug me. She accepted it not as charity, but as a promise when she gets the chance to help someone else, she will pay it forward, even if its decades down the road.

It made me think Last night and I know shes probably not alone. So many people are struggling with the shutdown and not getting paid, and then families worried about the food stamps. So if any family needs a pumpkin to carve and cant get one, please reach out to me. You can call or text me at 603-953-6160 or email me at jcole@kona-ice.com. I will buy from local farmers pumpkins and make sure you get one. No questions asked, just make a memory with your children and when you have the opportunity, pay it forward by doing something for someone (doesn't have to be money, you could send a card to someone at a nursing home, open a door for a stranger and smile or help rake leaves).

Please, reach out if we can help. No judgements

10/26/2025

🎨 We are so incredibly grateful to the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Robert and Susan Loker Fund for making our "Creative Connection" Art Group possible! 💛

Because of this generous support, 5 children and their families were able to participate in a 6-week therapeutic art group, connecting with peers, exploring creativity, and building confidence through expression.

This funding also allowed us to provide new art materials and the time to prepare weekly engaging, sensory-rich activities, making creativity accessible for all of our families!

Through this program, we watched incredible moments happen...
✨ A 6-year-old used her AAC device to introduce herself to a group for the very first time.
✨ A 10-year-old engaged in messy play to support regulation and overcome sensory aversions.
✨ A 16-year-old completed his first rock painting alongside his mom, independently pumping his own paint and holding a brush.

“These groups are designed to help your child work on their SLP, OT, and PT goals while doing what they LOVE. Whether it’s building strength and connection while painting, cutting, gluing, stamping, or more, learning new skills feels fun, natural, and empowering.” — Ms. Rachel, SLP & Art Group Lead 🎨

These moments remind us of the power of creativity and community. 💕 Thank you, Robert and Susan Loker Fund, for helping us bring more art, connection, and joy into the lives of the children we serve!

10/24/2025

🌿 Immediate Mental Health Openings at Reach!

Meet Chelsea Zarcone, LICSW, CBIS
Trauma- & Neuro-Informed Clinical Social Worker

Chelsea supports children and families through emotional, behavioral, and developmental challenges — within our coordinated therapy team of OTs, SLPs, and PTs. 💚

💫 What We Offer
✅ Trauma & Neuro-Informed Care for processing trauma, managing anxiety/depression, and building emotional regulation skills.

✅ Coordinated Interdisciplinary Care - Mental health, OT, PT, and Speech—working together for the whole child.

✅ Caregiver & Family Support - Guidance and strategies that strengthen connection and confidence.

✅ Support Through Big Life Changes - Transitions, grief, school stress, or medical/family challenges.

✅ Coping & Self-Regulation Skills - Play-based, strengths-based support to build problem-solving and mindfulness.

✅ Support for Complex Needs - Specialized care for Autistic children, ADHDers, ODD, DMDD, Anxiety, RAD, PTSD, and more.

✅ Community & Resource Connections - Helping families access school supports, crisis care, and local resources.

⚡ Now Accepting Referrals — Immediate Openings!

10/23/2025

🗣 October is AAC Awareness Month! 💙

AAC helps our littles communicate, advocate, learn vocabulary, connect, protest, comment, and laugh. AAC looks different for every child, so education about AAC is essential to finding visual tools that work best! Reach is committed to supporting the family and child to explore AAC needs for communication.

10/23/2025

🌟 BIG NEWS: Our New Mission Statement is Here! 🌟

This one captures it all — the essence of what we do every day and the incredible impact we have on children and families.

This is more than words on a page — it’s the mission we live and breathe every single day.

It reflects our heart, our passion, and the lasting impact of our team.

And now, this mission expands even further — with the addition of mental health services to support the whole child and family.

Our new licensed clinical social worker, Chelsea, brings trauma- and neuro-informed expertise to help children and families facing emotional, behavioral, and developmental challenges. Services are offered within our interdisciplinary team, alongside OT, PT, and Speech—creating seamless, coordinated care that meets every child where they are.

💬 Now accepting referrals – IMMEDIATE OPENINGS!

We are currently private pay for all services pending insurance paperwork delays outside of our control. We will be transitioning to being in-network with all current insurances as soon as possible. In the meantime, we are offering low-cost private pay options (though Medicaid prohibits this- so we have a first-come, first-serve waitlist for Wellsense, Amerihealth, and NH Healthy Families) — for all other insurances this a great way to lock in the few after-school spots while they last. Call today so you do not miss this opportunity!

📞 Call today to learn more or make a referral — and help us continue turning our mission into action, together.

10/21/2025

*Student Spotlight* - Meet Audrey!

We’re thrilled to welcome Audrey, a second-year graduate student from the University of New Hampshire’s Communication Sciences and Disorders program, to Reach for the Top for her first clinical externship! 🎓

Audrey is half-way through her time here at Reach, learning alongside Ms. Rachel, SLP, gaining hands-on experience in feeding and swallowing therapy, AAC evaluations, and play-based, family-centered care. We’re so excited to support her growth as she begins her journey into the world of speech-language pathology!

10/20/2025

🌟 Thank You, Rand-Whitney! 🌟

We are so grateful for the incredible support Rand-Whitney has already given our clinic—it truly makes a difference for the children and families we serve every day.

One of the ways we continue to provide safe, high-quality care is by keeping our therapy spaces clean, organized, and running on time. With back-to-back sessions and busy schedules, our team works quickly between appointments to make sure each room is safe, welcoming, and ready for the next child.

Your generosity helps us meet these everyday needs—like providing 11 easy-to-read synchronized clocks to keep appointments on track. These simple tools allow our staff to focus on what matters most: helping children make progress in therapy, giving parents peace of mind, and supporting our team so they can give their best to every child.

💙 From all of us at Reach for the Top Therapy Services, thank you, Rand-Whitney, for standing alongside our mission and making a lasting impact for the families who count on us!