EVIDENCE-BASED
THERAPY
GERMANY

for autistic children and adolescents

Our core identity

Transformative

Relational Frame Theory Curriculum to accelerate learning and decrease therapy time

Relational Frame Theory (RFT) examines how people make new connections between words, thoughts, objects, emotions, sensations and meaning.

Empowering

Acceptance and Commitment Training

Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) is a life-affirming approach for clients and those who love and support them. Our sessions are focused around pivots such as committed actions, values and mindfulness.

Developmentally appropriate

ABA meets Developmental Psychology

Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions (NDBI) such as Early Start Denver Model are holistic and emphasize the importance of developmental psychological processes, aiding young children to learn at a pace and sequence that match their developmental stage.

Neurodiversity-affirmative

Helping clients unmask and advocate for their needs

Neurodiversity-affirmative means that ‘differences’ and ‘quirks’ need understanding, empowering and acceptance not “fixing”, “masking” or “curing”. Neuro-realistic means distinguishing ‘differences’ from ‘deficits’ and ‘impairments’ which require education, rehabilitation and on-going support and intervention.

Ethical

Steward-ownership business structure which aligns with our ethics and values

We put our money where our mouth is and we strive to be ethical not only professionally but on systemic level. To break the vicious circle of profit-oriented capitalism, we have selected the freedom that steward-ownership business structure gives us by separating decision-making power within our company from rights to receive monetary dividends.

Collaborative

Integration and coordination between OT, SLP and ABA

Our Teaching Tree center in Rheinland-Pfalz was the first in Germany to offer multidisciplinary wrap-around services to support the US Military families. Since 2013, we integrate OT, SLP, and ABA into a single location and our partnership network includes EFMP, EDIS, DODEA school counsellors and teachers, mental health professionals, and developmental physicians. In 2022 we expanded our comprehensive services in other locations.

Nurturing

Trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive care

Practical Functional Assessment (PFA) and Skill Based Treatment Protocol (SBT) are much more than a modern perspective on problem behaviors. They are an effective and empathetic support for autistic individuals and their families.

Transparent

Digital sessions and data collection allow progress to be observed in real time

Our company uses software that allows digital clinical observation notes, data collection and graphing. With the digitalisation of our record-keeping, parents are given the opportunity to observe progress in real time by logging into their child’s account.

Parents, who:

worry that their child will not learn to communicate in a meaningful way;
feel uncertain about the level of independence their child will achieve in the future;
have daily battles with their child regarding eating, wearing warm clothes, or remaining safe on the parking lot;
have ran out of ideas on how to teach their child to communicate their boundaries and needs, use the bathroom, or make snack;
feel overwhelmed when attempting to advocate for their child’s inclusion with neurotypical peers;
have received mixed messages about ABA but are willing to evaluate its values and benefits through personal experience.

Facilities & day care centers whose teams:

notice a gap between their theoretical training and the practice of caring for people with autism;
wish to employ evidence-based tactics that both staff and clients feel good about,
strive to create living and learning contexts that teach and develop skills that can be appreciated by the autistic person as well as others;
want to achieve an overlap between the autistic person preferences and values, the staff’s professional experience and current research on pedagogical and therapeutic practices;
believe that teaching through joyful engagement is a powerful way to fulfill their call for social service

Our locations

Kindsbach

Our Kindsbacher centre is located between Kaiserslautern, Landstuhl and Ramstein, on the edge of the Palatinate Forest.

EVIDENCE-BASED THERAPY GERMANY

Our core identity

Transformative

Empowering

Developmentally appropriate

Neurodiversity-affirmative

Ethical

Collaborative

Nurturing

Transparent

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