Guiding individuals to RISE to their full potential and thrive in everyday life.

Rise Therapy is a mobile outpatient clinic for individuals across the lifespan, offering outpatient occupational therapy in the comfort of your home.

Services

Pre-Frenectomy Treatment

Identifies oral restrictions

Improves jaw range of motion and stiffness

Prepares tissues for release

Separation of tongue from floor of mouth

Improving strength, motion, and endurance of the tongue, jaw, lips, cheeks

Post-Frenectomy Treatment

Assist with wound care and management

Optimize body movements to keep wound open

Optimize tongue position and optimal oral function Proprioception of tongue position in space

Alleviate oral dysfunction to optimize feeding, oral motor skills, and oral rest posture.

Whole Body Therapy

RISE Therapy uses a variety of neuromuscular re-education, neurodevelopment treatment, manual therapy and infant massage techniques to address muscle tension, head turn preferences, and compensations throughout the body.

We address developmental delays, oral motor skills, torticollis, plagiocephaly, sensory processing concerns, reflex integration, feeding concerns, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, and orthopedic or neuromuscular conditions.

Pediatric Services

Occupational therapy can help children of all ages (birth to 21 years old) improve motor, sensory, cognitive, social, and visual skills to enhance independence, self-esteem and quality of life. We strive to facilitate increased independence and participation in daily activities to help your child thrive at home, at school and within the community.

Through evaluation, an individualized plan is developed to address the child's skills needed for play, daily activities, school performance and what is appropriate to foster learning, social skills and overall development.

Autism Spectrum Disorders

ADD/ADHD

Emotional/self-regulation difficulties

Cerebral palsy

Developmental delays

Down syndrome

Hypotonia

Failure to thrive/feeding difficulties

Genetic disorders

Learning disorders

Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

Plagiocephaly

Pre/Post Frenectomy

Retained primitive reflexes

Sensory processing disorders

Toe walking

Torticollis

Traumatic brain injuries

Testimonials

Sensory and mama+babe groups

Mariah Pierson, MOT, OTR/L, CEIM

My name is Mariah Pierson. I’m a wife to an incredibly supportive husband, mother of 3 beautiful girls and have found my passion and my calling as an occupational therapist.

My love for occupational therapy began in high school after learning about my mother’s experience with occupational therapy. After she sustained a C5/C6 spinal cord injury, her rehab journey inspired me. After being told to expect never to walk again and 13 days of paralysis, she could move one of her toes, she was very fortunate to gain function of her arms and legs and returned home independently 3 months following her accident. My mom always spoke highly about her occupational therapist and talked about how much she loved her OT. She spoke about how they would work on brushing her teeth and painting her nails as well as necessary skills needed to return to home independently. I felt inspired by my mom’s perseverance and her experience with an occupational therapist and felt that this was a career that I needed to pursue.

I began my career as an OT assistant and began working at a pediatric outpatient clinic in Grand Island after graduation. I had the opportunity to work with children of all ages with various conditions and felt inspired every day by these strong, courageous children. I became dedicated to each child and developed many strong connections with my patients and their families. I have experience treating complex cases which include various neurological disorders, developmental delays, sensory processing disorders, visual perceptual and oculomotor dysfunction, retained primitive reflexes, emotional regulation, focus and attention deficits, feeding aversions, picky eating, oral motor dysfunction as well as fine motor and gross motor deficits.

I continued my education and graduated with my Bachelors of Rehabilitative Science in 2017 and Master of Occupational Therapy in 2019.

Aside from evidence-based research and educational courses related to pediatrics I acquired a certification in a program called LSVT BIG. became a certified infant massage instructor, and completed extensive coursework and training to work with infants with oral dysfunction and oral ties.

I know that God has led me to the OT profession. I believe that I was meant to serve the Lord by helping others. I’m here to encourage, motivate, and inspire my patients to achieve their goals of independence and success in everything that they want and need to do. I feel very grateful to work in such a rewarding profession and I’m thankful for the opportunity to serve our community and sharing my passion each day!

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