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About Therapy Playhouse

26 years of showing up — one family at a time.

Therapy Playhouse was founded in 2000 by Lauri Lee, PT, DPT — a pediatric physical therapist with one conviction: therapy belongs in the places where children actually live. Twenty-six years later, that's still the point.

Lauri Lee, PT, DPT
Lauri Lee, PT, DPT
Founder & President
Pediatric physical therapist
30+ years experience
26
Years serving Florida families
4
Disciplines · OT · PT · ST · ITDS
4
Florida counties covered
10+
Major Florida payers accepted

Our story

In 2000, pediatric physical therapist Lauri Lee saw something that didn't add up: too many Florida families pulling medically fragile kids into clinic rooms that didn't fit their lives. As a PT, she knew that gross motor progress rarely transfers neatly from a clinic mat to a child's actual living room. The best therapy happens in the place where the child already is.

So she started Therapy Playhouse to do it that way.

Twenty-six years later, that conviction is still the point. What began as one PT in family homes has grown into one of Florida's most-referred pediatric therapy teams — OT, PT, ST, and ITDS specialists serving medically complex and developmentally delayed children across the state.

We've grown intentionally. More therapists. More disciplines. More Florida counties on the map. What hasn't changed is the conviction behind it — family-first, natural environment, show up in real life. Bigger practice, same way of practicing.

If the philosophy sounds simple, that's because it is. The work — the patient, skilled, family-centered work — is what makes the difference.

Our mission
To provide the highest quality therapy services to special needs children and their families — by working with the most qualified, compassionate, ethical, and competent team members, and by focusing on the child's role within the family unit.

What we believe

Five values. We try to live all of them, every day.

01

Family-first

The child sits inside the family — not separate from it. Every plan of care starts there.

02

Natural environment

Therapy belongs in the places kids actually live. We come to you.

03

Clinical excellence

Qualified, credentialed, continuously trained. The therapist in your home is the real deal.

04

Transparency

About cost, about process, about what therapy can and can't do. No surprises.

05

Play as the tool

We're called Playhouse for a reason. Play isn't filler — it's their job. It's how children learn.

06

Forward-thinking

We rethink the practice model so clinicians can rethink the therapy.

Three teams, one practice.

The clinical team sees children and families. The other two exist so the clinical team can.

Clinical

The therapists.

Licensed OT, PT, ST, and ITDS specialists working in your home, your child's school, and wherever natural play happens. This is the work.

Innovation

The forward thinkers.

The team rethinking how pediatric therapy gets delivered — building the systems and ideas that let clinicians in the TP network spend more time with your child, and less on operational logistics.

Business Operations

The engine.

Billing, scheduling, credentialing, payer contracts. The quiet work that makes "we've got you" true.

Where we work.

Therapy Playhouse serves families across Florida — Tampa Bay, the broader west coast, and expanding every year. If your county isn't on our map yet, ask anyway. We grow where families need us.

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Therapist and parent engaged with a young child in a home living room

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