DIR Floortime in Murfreesboro, TN
Child-led, relationship-based DIR Floortime for kids and teens ages 0 to 18, woven into neurodiversity-affirming occupational therapy. In your home or community across Rutherford County, at our Murfreesboro office, or by telehealth anywhere in Tennessee.
The basics
What is DIR Floortime?
DIR stands for Developmental, Individual differences, and Relationship-based. It's a framework for understanding how each child develops. Floortime is the playful, hands-on way of putting it into practice: joining your child where they are, following their lead, and building connection and new abilities through the things they already love.
Rather than drilling isolated skills, Floortime supports the foundations underneath them: regulation, engagement, two-way communication, problem solving, and emotional thinking.
Developmental
We meet your child at their current developmental stage and build up from there, one meaningful step at a time.
Individual differences
We honor the unique way your child takes in, processes, and responds to the world around them.
Relationships
Real growth happens through warm, trusting relationships, so connection always comes first.
In practice
What a Floortime session looks like
To your child, it looks like play. Underneath, every moment is intentional.
Following your child's lead
We start with what your child is drawn to, whether that's trains, water play, or a favorite show, and join them there.
Regulation comes first
We pay close attention to your child's sensory profile and help them feel calm, safe, and ready to connect.
Building back-and-forth
We gently stretch play into longer back-and-forth exchanges, using gestures, sounds, words, or ideas.
Just-right challenge
Once your child is engaged, we add playful problems to solve so they can grow at their own pace.
Who Floortime can help
Floortime can be used with children of every developmental profile. Families often come to us for support with:
Parent coaching
Floortime doesn't stop when the session ends
You are the most important person in your child's world, so you're at the center of Floortime. We coach you during sessions and help you find simple, realistic ways to use Floortime in everyday moments like bath time, meals, car rides, and play.
Coaching in the moment
We model, then hand the play back to you, with gentle feedback as you go.
Ideas that fit your life
No extra hour of homework. Floortime fits into routines you already have.
Understanding your child
Learn to read your child's cues, sensory needs, and ways of connecting.
Support for the whole family
Siblings and caregivers can join in, so connection grows at home.
Where we see families
Floortime across Rutherford County
In your home or community
Murfreesboro, Smyrna, La Vergne, and across Rutherford County. Floortime works best where your child is most comfortable.
Our Murfreesboro office
1810 Ward Drive, Ste 101, Murfreesboro, TN 37129.
Telehealth
Floortime parent coaching and therapy by video, anywhere in Tennessee.
Good to know
Social-emotional learning
Social and emotional growth, through play
Social-emotional skills grow out of relationships. In Floortime, we support the building blocks that make things like friendships, sharing feelings, and working through frustration possible, in ways that feel natural to your child and never ask them to mask who they are.
Solving problems together
Children learn to stay in long back-and-forth exchanges with a trusted adult to figure something out, like getting the lid off a container, finding a hidden toy, or building something together. Along the way, they practice reading facial expressions and gestures, showing what they want, and noticing how others respond. This shared problem solving builds flexibility, cooperation, and a growing sense of self.
Using ideas to share feelings
Through pretend play and conversation, children begin to use ideas to show what they want, think, and feel. A stuffed animal might be scared of the dark, or a toy car might be upset it lost the race. Playing out feelings like these with a partner who joins in helps children understand emotions, put them into words or play, and imagine what someone else might be feeling.