Great therapist with excellent life advice, suggestions and recommendations!…read moreThank you, Dr Love

One of the most influential, spirit lifting, and kind person ever in my life. I haven't seen Dr…read moreLove in almost 2 decades. When it felt like everyone and everything was against me, Dr Love was there. I am where I am today because she made me feel like somebody. Will never forget you. May you be blessed in all that you do.

To give context, my kiddo is 5 years old as of this date, and we have been clients of Cortica for…read moreabout 1.5 years. My kiddo started autism-related therapies (behavioral, speech, and occupational) whenhe was 2, so prior to Cortica we had a couple of years experience with other providers. From our experience, one of the biggest strengths of Cortica is that it offers a comprehensive set of services under one house - prior to Cortica, we had different providers providing different services, so there was an obvious communication gap across teams. Additionally, there were several services that we weren't doing prior to becoming clients. To expand, we currently use Cortica for the following: Family Counseling (for parents), Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Social Group (for kiddo), ABA Therapy, and Music Therapy. In the recent past, we were doing Neurofeedback Therapy - it did not seem to have any notable impact, so consulting with the staff, we decided to stop. We also had a meeting with Dr. Shapiro regarding TVNS and under his consult, we decided it probably wasn't necessary. We had a couple of bio-medical consults, but we haven't been successful in being consistent with supplements (this is really our fault here). In the near future, we are planning to attend the once-a-month Parent's Group at Cortica. In respect to quality of care provided, from our experience, it's been very good all around. Cortica's ABA is different from what we were used to - it's not reward based, rather it's based in the methods described in Spectacular Bond book (sorry, it's a bit hard for me to succinctly describe). In respect to speech and fine & gross motor skills, we have seen our kiddo progress at a good and steady rate - he's still got a long ways to go, but we're seeing him grow. Also, our family counselor has been great and an integral component in everything. She not only listens to personal issues, but also helps us plan and process anything related to our kiddo's development. To re-iterate, she's been integral for us. We've met with Dr. Goh a handful of times and we've always found Dr. Goh to be personable and approachable. We haven't had a need to meet with her often, since the personnel that we've worked with has been solid and helpful. We haven't really experienced a turnover staff problem like we had in the past with previous providers. For instance, we've had a couple of the same ABA therapist for our entire duration with Cortica. I would say scheduling and re-scheduling (e.g., school year, summer) is more an issue. This probably has to do with a supply and demand with resources, I would guess. Last note, I really get a good "team" sense from Cortica, that encompasses my family and Cortica. And I think that's partly due to my wife and I's level of engagement and also Cortica's philosophy on how things should run, which of course is displayed in the staff we work with.

Cortica has such a high turn over rate. Just when you start building relationships, the good ones…read moreleave. It was so difficult for me and for my son. Not to mention the horrific wait times for services.

There are not enough words in a dictionary to describe what brain balance has done for our family!…read more When we started 5 months ago, we were living in full blown crisis mode with our daughter. At 11 years old, she was eloping from school 2-3 times per week, would throw raging tantrums, hygiene was low on her priorities, and she was very sad and withdrawn. I could never properly explain our struggles. It was like living with a toddler trapped in a full size child body. Upon receiving her assessment, on paper they confirmed everything we'd seen for years. Her brain was weak on the right side and she was an average age of 4 years old. Fast forward 5 months, her brain has reconnected and both hemispheres working in concert. She's happy, focused, can read, tantrums are nearly gone, she able to be reasoned with, he fine motor skills are working, she knows her body in relation to her surroundings. Her confidence is building, her self image has improved, she has expressed goals of wanting to be a writer or a disney imagineer. She's now at an age level of 11-18 depending on the range of test. School is astonished at her growth. Our family can be a family doing family things! We just enjoyed 2 days at Disneyland with zero meltdowns. Something we've never been able to do before. Jon, Amanda, Rachel, Lauren, Chad and James have truly been the support net our family needed! Thank you for the incredible dedication you have to work with kids who need this the most. You mean the world to us!

Overall I was very skeptical when beginning brain balance. Our 9 year old daughter was struggling…read moreevery day in school. Crying on the way, refusing to do homework. Major aversion to learning. I did a TON of research, spoke with pediatricians (4), spoke with two principals, our school, her teachers, and had her tested at brain balance (I think it was $195) and also paid over $3000 dollars to have a two session testing done by Psychiatrist who is the person who does the testing for the Poway school district when kids fall two years behind in school. Because my daughter wasn't two years behind I had to pay (insurance doesn't cover it). Obviously the 3k test was very comprehensive and took two weekends to complete. The diagnosis was visual processing disorder and ADD. She was given the recommendation to go to therapy and get on meds. Visual processing disorder basically means: She can't read instructions and turn them into action, couple that with ADD and learning was a hot mess for her. The brain balance assessment does not diagnose, but it did indicate that among other weaknesses her main deficit was visual processing. That gave me confidence that aT least their testing was accurate. Then comes the huge sales pitch. The program was expensive, relatively new, etc etc. After much delay, thought, education and doctors opinions and therapists appointments we signed up for half the sessions they recommended in case it was not working. I have to admit I was still very speculative but there was no harm in it, and the worst possible case was that I lost money. I am happy to say she loved going. She's finishing her sessions next week and her scores in everything started under her age. She's now over her age group in everything except visual processing. Her grades have improved dramatically, her resistance to homework has improved dramatically and her confidence in learning has improved dramatically. We have zero crying and she never said asks to skip school anymore. She still has a ways to go visually but we now have the exercises to strengthen them and we know to get her vision checked and use her glasses constantly. Overall, we put our heart and soul into figuring out what was wrong and then helping her. So it's difficult to say which of the one million things we did helped us work it out, but I do think brain balance was an integral part of it, to my surprise. And I'm happy that we found a solution for the moment that allows her to feel confident and enjoy her day more, but we didn't have to medicate her. We are keeping medication options open and watching close, but so far this is working for her and I'll hold off on meds until I feel i have no other option.

I was an employee at ABA Adaptive services. I had a child that parent pulled them out quickly. I…read morewas thrown in to tutoring their child without supervision. Under the guise that I was binding/ pairing. Needless to say the mother was not happy with their services and they pulled out. To no fault of my own. I only did my job. I met the kid played without supervision. After this scenario the mother quit the services and I got fired. It's ok because I would rather be associated with a place that sends trained RBT's. Beware.

I tried working there and I got told I was doing a poor job by a supervisor and I was only in…read moretraining and hadn't been for very long. I can see why they need employees. I liked everyone there but the one manager who made me feel like a loser

We had such a wonderful experience with Erikah at Open Play…read more When we first sought out physical therapy, our child wasn't yet jumping, throwing or kicking a ball, balancing on one foot, or walking up and down stairs with alternating feet. We had a lot of concerns and didn't know what progress would realistically look like. Erikah came in with a clear plan, set thoughtful stretch goals, and more importantly, knew exactly how to connect and engage in a way that made learning feel natural and fun. Not only did our child meet every single goal she set, but the confidence and willingness to try new things has grown just as much as the physical skills. Erikah is patient, knowledgeable, encouraging, and truly invested in the children she works with. We feel incredibly grateful to have her as part of our support team and would highly recommend her to any family seeking pediatric physical therapy.

We've been receiving PT services from Silvia de Faria for the past 2.5 years almost 3 her services…read moreand her personality just shine. She has been amazing not only with her patient but with the whole family. She's extremely caring and professional. She's so knowledgeable and helpful. She really helped our son be able to gain much more strength in his legs and go up & down alternating & gain speed while running. Silvia was always on time, communicative and so accommodating as well. I can not recommend her enough

I called spoke with lily she was excellent. I will continue to get help from her . She is fantastic.read more

The place is easy to find, big parking lot, although you might wanna watch the time limit of 2…read morehours if you don't want to get towed. So I signed up to become a IHSS provider, and they sent me here for register plus fingers print, then spent about 2 hours for training, if you have a dependent, elderly person, might consider signing up so you can help them with pay. Fingers print costs $40 cash or money order only, no credit cards accepted. The training was simple, very informative, the part I didn't like about the presentation was when they had people from UDW came to talk and asked people to join the union, but of course I had enough union dues to worry about, so I will pass on this one, at least it's voluntarily. Then you have to spend another 2 hours on a zoom video training, and you hope that in 2 more days, they would send you some more documents to sign. That's pretty much the process here.

First let me say Dr. Reid is great! Our consult was great with him and he made us feel at ease and…read moreanswered our questions. But beware, his PA Nora L Stefany working for him has terrible bedside manner. Stormed in the room without knocking, defensive, rude and not kind. Especially with what patients are going through with cancer. Did not ask any caring follow up questions with a family member who just had a double mastectomy, which is already emotionally sensitive while she is feeling pain and has a lot of questions about her case. She should not be working with cancer patients. She's on a massive power trip! I'm giving this 2 stars cause I wish I was just dealing with Dr. Reid. But access to him is really difficult, which is unfortunate. Everyone else in this office is great.

I want to thank dr.ross and her staff treated .e like I was at home got my fistula treated it was…read moreawesome plus nurse Lea is great really caring I loved this place