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Helping Extraordinary People
Do Ordinary Thing
Applying Gentle Enhancement® to Stimulate the Development of New Neuropathways and to Integrate them
About Parzival Therapies
Parzival Therapies utilizes the HANDLE® approach combined with Functional Nutritional evaluations, to get to the root causes of our clients concerns by providing effective, non-drug evaluations and interventions for recovery from NeuroDevelopment and Degenerative challenges. Our focus is providing therapy for clients on the autism spectrum and those with ADD, ADHD, learning difficulties, perplexing behaviors, sleep disorders, issues related to aging, and more.
We have an extensive personalized interview process, and then observe our clients during structured activities or play. We then create a therapeutic plan to acknowledge, validate, and work with each individual’s challenges. This plan will include health and nutritional recommendations.
We’re excited to help you work through your needs and come out on the other side happier and healthier than before.
Our Mission:
Parzival Therapies is about transcending limiting labels and providing tools that enable and empower every human being to live the most stress-free, inspired life possible. Helping Extraordinary people do ordinary things.
Parzival Therapies combines an understanding of neuroplasticity* and the interplay among mind, body and environment to help the brain gently change itself. It’s designed to enhance neurological systems that are causing learning or life difficulties, without force or judgment. We can assist children and adults labeled with, but not limited to:
- ADD, ADHD, (Attention Deficit and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders)
- Dyslexia
- Autism
- Speech Delays
- Expressive and Receptive Language Issues
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Tourette's Syndrome
- Anxiety and/or Depression
- Seizure Disorders
- OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
- ODD (Opposition Defiance Disorder)
- PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Delay - Not Otherwise Specified)
- Issues of Aging
- Cerebral Palsy
- Down Syndrome
- Genetic Disorders
- And more.
The HANDLE approach is based in the philosophy of Gentle Enhancement®, the concept that slow, steady, supportive movement over time provides the best results, the HANDLE program helps enhance the functioning of the brain and body through a compassionate approach that taps into the body’s natural ability to reorganize and improve itself.
Every individual is unique, so HANDLE is not a one size fits all approach. In fact it is a philosophy that is rooted in acknowledging, validating and working with each individual’s differences.
*neu·ro·plas·tic·i·ty - [noor-oh-pla-stis-i-tee, nyoor]
The capacity of the nervous system to develop new neuronal connections: the brain's natural ability to form new connections in order to compensate for injury.
Gentle Enhancement
Gentle Enhancement describes the HANDLE process of respectfully supporting sensory processing in small steps without undue stress, recognizing that sensory over-stimulation can interfere with attention and learning. The HANDLE paradigm encourages people to apply Gentle Enhancement in their daily lives. Clients and support people are taught to watch for subtle signs of stress as indicators of when to stop a HANDLE activity.
Nancy E. Dill MSE, CHP
Founder and Owner of Parzival Therapies
Nancy is a Certified HANDLE® Practitioner, Screener and HANDLE Level Instructor. She is a Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. Her HANDLE work has focused predominantly on children with significant neurological challenges, including "non-verbal", but her work also includes adults as well as children with various challenges.
Nancy has been involved with HANDLE® since 2009. She started by taking a level 1 & 2 course in the Spring of 2009, and immediately connected with a Practitioner for her son on the autism spectrum. He benefitted tremendously from his HANDLE program. She has a second son who would likely be classifies as ADHD, who has also benefitted from the HANDLE approach.
She is passionate about nutrition and holistic health. Food is medicine and the foundation for healing. Nancy is currently studying Holistic Herbalism. She has a large Organic garden. She owned an organic restaurant in Kimberton, PA, for 12 years.
Nancy has a background in Waldorf Education and spent her early childhood through high school graduation at the Kimberton (Farms) Waldorf School. She holds a Master's degree in Environmental Engineering and Chemistry. She taught community college and high school Mathematics and Chemistry for 13 years, including four years at the Kimberton Waldorf High School.
Danielle Sinclair Whitby CFNP
Functional Nutritional Practitioner at
Parzival Therapies
Danielle Sinclair Whitby is a Certified Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner with a background in Waldorf education and Holistic Family Wellness. Danielle is certified in HANDLE levels 1 and 2, and uses a variety of activities daily as she homeschools her youngest of 3 daughters. She and her husband maintain a small but ambitious veggie garden and keep ducks and laying hens. Her work is currently centered on serving as an Educarer (Educator + Caregiver) and supporting families through their wide range of challenges.
As a relentless student of the human journey and process, I believe that the root of chronic illness and dis-ease lies in our health. Through a simple whole-foods approach we can effect radical change in mood, behavior and overall well-being.
The Origins of HANDLE®
Judith Bluestone was a remarkable woman, born with numerous neurological challenges and structural irregularities as well as injuries that left her paralyzed and in a wheelchair for two years. She had nearly unintelligible speech as a child, became profoundly deaf at age 8, suffered from clonic/tonic seizures, had groundbreaking reconstructive facial surgery, experienced repeated encephalitis and meningitis, once leading to loss of speech and other differences for which she was teased as a child and worked all her life to overcome. Despite all of this and more, Judith triumphed over her differences, finding ways that helped her make it through her early years. She instinctively protected herself in her areas of greatest vulnerability, guarding her sensitive systems while using her strengths and talents to successfully make it through school and into graduate work. Among her extensive studies were neuroscience, neuropsychology, neurorehabilitation, human development, visual processing, sensory-motor integration, education, counseling and more. Not stopping there, she studied as many alternate approaches as she could, all the while striving to understand from the outside in what she had learned and experienced from the inside out.
Judith spent eleven years in a kibbutz in Israel, developing her ideas into a functional program that continued after she left, winning the 1989 National Prize for Early Childhood Education for the State of Israel.
Encouraged to share what she had learned and developed, Judith founded The HANDLE Institute in 1994, now present in 31 countries and growing. Since that time, research and studies have been conducted to demonstrate some remarkable outcomes for which Judith received numerous awards and recognition.
Judith Bluestone passed away unexpectedly in February of 2009.
Read more about Judith’s remarkable story in The Fabric of Autism, Weaving the Threads Into a Cogent Theory - by Judith Bluestone.
Available through the HANDLE Institute's website:
at the bottom of the page.
Read Case Studies in the
Churkendoose Anthology -
True Stories of Triumph over Neurological Dysfunction