Kurcsak, Brianne (Bri), MS, OTR/L

Bri Kurcsak, MS, OTR/L earned her Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. She has over 19 years of clinical experience as an occupational therapist with advanced training in infant, toddler, and child feeding, pediatric pelvic floor, sensory and motor development, and wellness related to nutrition and healthy sleep habits. Bri is the founder and lead clinician of Flourish Carolina, a pediatric private practice in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she provides integrative, whole-child care to children and families.

Bri is a national lecturer for organizations including MedMaps and TACA and continues to teach at colleges across the country. She brings both professional expertise and personal insight as a PANDAS parent, allowing her to uniquely understand and advocate for whole-body, root-cause approaches to healing in children with complex neuroimmune conditions.

• • Oral Evaluation for Tongue Tie
• • Manual Oral Therapy for TOTs
• • Manual Body Therapy for Tension
• • Positioning / Strategies to Optimize Head Shape
• • Tummy Time Instruction
• • Head to Toe Developmental Evaluation
• • Manual Therapy for Rolling/Sitting/Crawling/Walking
• • Social Language and Peer Social Engagement Techniques
• • Feeding Therapy for Solid Introduction and Mastery
• • Meal Planning
• • Parent Coaching for Meal Time Stress Management
• • Sleep Assessment and Sleep Disordered Breathing/Apnea Management
• • Sleep Routine and Techniques
• • Behavioral and Parent Coaching
• • Pelvic Floor Therapy

Type of Clients: Children

Take Healthcare Insurance: No

Percentage of ASD children in our practice: 40%

• • Autism
• • ADD/ADHD
• • Breast, Bottle and Solid Feeding Delays and Challenges
• • Behavior & Social Language Delays
• • Cerebral Palsy
• • Developmental Delay and Motor Coordination Difficulties
• • Food Allergies and Intolerances
• • Headshape Concerns and Delays with Rolling/Sitting/Crawling/Walking
• • Lip, Tongue and Buccal Ties
• • Night Wetting, Constipation and Bowel Dysfunction
• • PANS/PANDAS
• • Reflux / Colic
• • Sleep Disordered Breathing / Sleep Apnea

Flourish Carolina believes in the power of parents’ intuition and family involvement in the care plan. If you have tried therapy and hit dead ends, feel frustrated about your child’s feeding, sleep, and behavior, and your gut tells you something isn’t right, my job is to set your child up on a path so they can nourish to FLOURISH! Occupational therapists are providers with extensive training geared toward helping people participate in everyday activities. For children, those activities include eating, playing, and sleeping. Bri is highly trained in the developmental assessment and treatment. She is qualified to look at the body holistically to identify areas of dysfunction to provide solutions in a meaningful and supportive environment. Bri is trained to provide manual therapy. This approach teaches babies how to use their mouth muscles effectively for feeding and breathing. These are necessary skills for later development into crawling, walking and writing. She can teach toddlers healthy bowel and bladder habits, squash picky eating, identify problematic sleep habits, and build strategies to regulate emotions and behaviors. Did you know those all can be tied together?