The Puzzle Place

What The Puzzle Place does

The Puzzle Place is a small, for-profit wellness center headquartered in Freehold, New Jersey (United States), founded in 2014. The center provides occupational therapy, language therapy, and adaptive life skills instruction targeted at children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Operationally, it is a micro-entity with a headcount of 1-10 employees under a private ownership structure, with Ricky Teichman serving as clinical director. The website is thepuzzleplace.org.

The business model centers on fee-for-service clinical therapy delivery to pediatric patients with autism and their families. The provided input contains no public pricing details, no disclosed revenue, no funding rounds, no products, no proprietary technology stack, no API offerings, no integrations, no AI/ML modalities, and no certifications — consistent with a small local therapy practice whose operations are not broadly disclosed publicly. There are no partnerships, awards, patents, M&A activity, leadership changes beyond the clinical director appointment, regulatory actions, or restructuring events documented in the input.

Geographically, the practice is anchored in Freehold, NJ (Monmouth County), serving families in the surrounding catchment area. Customer segments, exact service mix ratios, payer mix (private insurance / Medicaid / private pay), patient volume, and clinical outcomes metrics are not disclosed in the available data. The center's strategic posture, growth trajectory, and competitive position cannot be precisely characterized from the limited inputs available.

Name

The Puzzle Place

Legal name

Boulder Mountain Fire Protection District Auxiliary

Website

https://thepuzzleplace.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1976

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Puzzle Place is a small private wellness center in Freehold, NJ, founded 2014, providing occupational therapy, language therapy, and adaptive life skills instruction to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, with 1-10 employees under clinical director Ricky Teichman.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pediatric Autism Therapy Services

NAICS

Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists (62134)

SIC

Services-Specialty Outpatient Facilities, Nec (8093)

akta.pro primary industry

Assistive Technology (AT) Access & AAC Access Support (OT-Led) (EDAKAFAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Autism Assistive Technology & Learning Tools (Educational) (EDAKAKAM)

Keywords

• Pediatric occupational therapy
• Autism language therapy
• Adaptive life skills
• Pediatric wellness services
• Special needs therapy

Headquarters

HQ city

Freehold

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

The Puzzle Place is a wellness center that provides occupational and language therapy, along with adaptive life skills training, to children with Autism. Founded in 2014 and based in Freehold, United States, the center delivers multi-disciplinary pediatric therapy services through a small clinical team of 1-10 employees.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Boulder Mountain Creates: Gift shop component of the market featuring handcrafted goods.
• Boulder Mountain Bakes
• Play, Listen & Learn

Products and services

• Occupational Therapy Occupational therapy services delivered to children with Autism at the Freehold, NJ wellness center, focused on developing motor, sensory, and functional skills.
• Language Therapy Language therapy services for children with Autism at the Freehold, NJ wellness center, addressing communication, speech, and language development needs.
• Adaptive Life Skills Training Adaptive life skills training for children with Autism, designed to build independence in daily living, social, and self-care activities.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Behavior Frontiers: Multi-state provider of ABA and related autism therapy services for children in clinic, home, and school settings. Closely comparable in clinical mission and patient population to The Puzzle Place, though more ABA-centric.
• Autism Learning Partners: Multi-state ABA and multidisciplinary autism therapy provider serving children and families with similar OT/speech/behavioral blends. Operates in a directly comparable clinical category to The Puzzle Place.
• Cortica: Pediatric autism care network delivering integrated OT, speech, and ABA therapy under a multidisciplinary clinical model. Operates in similar service categories and patient population as The Puzzle Place, but at significantly larger multi-site scale.
• Hopebridge: Multi-site pediatric therapy provider offering OT, speech, and ABA services for children with autism across multiple U.S. states. Closest scaled direct competitor to The Puzzle Place's OT + language therapy model, differentiated only by geography and scale.
• Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD): Established national autism therapy provider with a wide network of clinics delivering ABA and related therapeutic services to children. Directly comparable target population and service model even though therapeutic modalities differ slightly.
• BlueSprig Pediatrics: Large PE-backed pediatric autism therapy provider offering ABA, OT, and speech services across numerous clinics. Targets the same autism population as The Puzzle Place with a comparable therapy mix but at national roll-up scale.

Emerging players

• Pediatric Therapy Network: Smaller-scale pediatric OT and speech therapy provider serving children with developmental and sensory needs. Overlaps with The Puzzle Place's specialty therapy model though typically anchored in California.
• Therapy Solutions for Kids: Regional pediatric therapy practice offering OT and speech services to children, including those with developmental delays. Comparable in service mix (OT + language) to The Puzzle Place and competes for similar pediatric referrals.

Regional players

• Pratt's Top Notch Healthcare Services: Regional provider of home and clinic-based OT, speech, and behavioral health services for children and adults. Comparable therapist-staffing and clinical mix, relevant for peer benchmarking of small private therapy clinic economics.

Others

• Easterseals: National nonprofit network providing OT, speech, and autism services across many local affiliates. Comparable in service mix and target population to The Puzzle Place, useful as a non-profit-supported peer benchmark for reimbursement and outcome reporting practices.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/The_PuzzlePlace

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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