While designing the new space, the main goal was to create a warm and welcoming environment where clients felt safe and supported. During the first week of therapy sessions in our new building, a family came in who had been working with their therapist at the former location. As they walked into the new building the mother looked around and smiled while saying, “This feels like Forty Carrots.”
With the increased therapy space, the treatment rooms are individually tailored to meet the diverse needs of staff and their clients – including a treatment room solely dedicated to art therapy as well as treatment rooms specifically designed
with different age groups in mind. While increasing the capacity to see in-person clients, the space is also appropriate for virtual sessions to meet individual family needs. The flexibility of the space allows therapists to tailor the therapy sessions to best suit each individual client as they come to therapy sessions.
Therapy clients also have a separate and confidential waiting area where families can wait through treatment sessions without outside traffic caused by other programming.
Overall, the expansion has resulted in creating a more comfortable and individualized treatment setting to help meet the needs of families, while also allowing for an immediate increase in the number of services that could be offered in the community.