Our origin story is not a marketing story. It is just what happened.
Nurture Path began with a parent, a diagnosis, and a year of phone calls.
What our founder found was a system that assumed you already knew how it worked. Intake forms asking for numbers she did not have. Waitlists measured in seasons rather than weeks. Clinicians who were excellent, and clinicians who were kind, and not nearly enough who were both in the same room.
She kept a list of everything she wished someone had done differently. Nurture Path is that list, turned into a practice.
That is why our first conversation is short and free of jargon. It is why a clinician sits on your floor rather than behind a desk. It is why we tell you what we cannot do before you have spent money finding out.
The right support is built on trust,
which means we are not right
for every family.
We would far rather tell you that in the first conversation than in the third month.
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Where we are right now?
We are home-based, and we are new. We are honest about both.
Home-based is a deliberate choice rather than a limitation. It is where skills actually get used, and it removes a transition from a day that probably already has too many.
New means small caseloads and short waits. It also means we are still building the dedicated centre we plan to open. When we do, it will be calm, quiet and designed around how children actually experience a room, rather than around how a clinic usually looks
- Medi-Cal
- Contra Costa Health Plan
Why we count things
Data has a mixed reputation with parents, and sometimes it has earned it.
We collect it because memory is unreliable. Without data, "he seems better lately" is a guess. With it, we can see that requesting went from twice day to nine times a
day, and we can tell whether a strategy is working long before we have spent three months on it.
Data never comes before your child's comfort. If a session needs to stop, it stops, and we record that too, because that is information as well.
Everything is reviewed by supervising clinicians and shared with you in language that does not require translation.
About the criticism of ABA
If you have researched this online, you have read hard things about ABA. Autistic adults describing
therapy that taught them to mask, to comply, and to look less like themselves.
That criticism is real and it comes from real experiences. Any provider who waves it away is not
worth trusting with your child.
Here is our answer. We do not target behaviors because they look unusual. Stimming is not a goal.
Eye contact is not forced. We follow your child's lead, we watch for assent, and we stop when a child
tells us they are done, in whatever way they tell us.
We measure success by whether your child's world gets bigger, not by whether they get quieter. If
you want to ask us something harder than this, please do.
Getting started, step by step
Check what your
plan needs
Requirements differ. Most private plans need a documented autism diagnosis and a referral from a licensed physician or psychologist.
Intake
A short call, then paperwork we walk you through rather than mail you out.
Assessment and
plan
A BCBA assesses your child and builds an individualized plan with you, not for you.
Sessions and
collaboration
Work begins at home, with ongoing supervision, regular review, and coordination with schools and other therapists where it helps.
When you need something we do not offer
Speech therapy. Occupational therapy. In-classroom aides. Social skills groups. We do not
provide these, but we know who does, and we will help you get there.
Referrals and coordination are part of what we do, whether or not the destination is us.
Ready to talk it through?
One short conversation will tell you more than another hour of reading.