Ground to Grow OT · Torrance & the South Bay
Helping Children Build Skills for Everyday Life
Occupational Therapy · DIR Floortime · Feeding Support
Through individualized, play-based support, children build greater confidence with play, movement, and everyday activities.
Serving the Los Angeles South Bay area.
Services We Provide
One-to-one pediatric occupational therapy for children of all developmental levels in Torrance and the South Bay. Sessions may support handwriting and pre-writing, fine motor coordination, self-care, sensory processing and regulation, and motor development.
Relationship-centered, play-based support guided by your child’s developmental level, strengths, and interests. Shared play can support communication, social connection, flexible play, regulation, problem-solving, and participation in everyday routines.
Executive Functioning and Community Support
Executive Functioning classes help your child with fundamental skills for community success, including initiating, planning and completing multistep activities, organizing their materials and belongings, starting and finishing tasks, following routines, managing time, and participating in cooperative tasks. Focus on generalizing skills in self-regulation, sensory processing, social-emotional, and adaptive skills to community routines. Program plans are adapted to suit children of all developmental levels.
Feeding therapy for children ages 2 and up who have significant picky eating or difficulty trying new foods, managing different textures, or participating in mealtimes. Sessions follow each child’s pace and strengths, with parent participation to support carryover.
About Jackie Bresnahan
MS OTR/L, SWC, RYT
Occupational Therapist
Licensed Occupational Therapist, ICDL verified DIR Floortime Practitioner, California Board Certified in Feeding and Swallowing, Registered Yoga Teacher.
Jackie believes therapy works best when children feel safe, connected, and understood. She takes a play-based, relationship-centered approach, building on each child’s strengths and interests while partnering with caregivers to support the whole family.
Jackie has worked with neurodivergent children in educational and therapeutic settings since 2007. She earned her Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from Tufts University in 2012, and has pediatric OT experience in school, hospital, and clinic settings.
Jackie is committed to continued learning. Her training includes DIR Advanced coursework; sensory integration courses through the Collaborative for Leadership in Ayres Sensory Integration; feeding therapy coursework in the SOS Approach to Feeding and Get Permission Approach to Feeding; and Handwriting Without Tears. She is California Board Certified in Feeding and Swallowing.
Jackie values the mind-body connection. She has practiced yoga for nearly 20 years and earned her Registered Yoga Teacher credential.
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Ground to Grow is out of network with all insurances. A superbill for submission to your insurance company can be provided to you upon request. Contact your insurance company for details about their potential reimbursement policies for occupational therapy superbills.
Ground to Grow accepts Regional Center Self-Determination Program (SDP) / Financial Management Service funding to access qualifying community support services. Call or email us today to discuss establishing a customized program plan to support your child.
If you are a client of Harbor Regional Center and would like information on the appeals process, you can visit the Department of Developmental Services website here or call DDS at 916-654-1987