Now, Colcasure’s sister, Carrie McIntosh, and McIntosh’s husband, Bill McIntosh, are helping Colcasure and her husband, Mark Colcasure, start their own business, Synergy Family Therapy Specialists, at 1700 Thomas Paine Parkway in Centerville.
“I work at the restaurant around when I’m helping Kim, because I want her to be successful,” Carrie McIntosh said.
It’s not just McIntosh, her husband and her two daughters who are helping the Colcasures build their business. Kim Colcasure said her dad, who is 76, will come and help with final construction on her practice.
The Colcasures opened their business in February 2014 but didn’t actually start seeing patients till June, Mark Colcasure said, because they had to sort out insurance information.
Kim Colcasure and Carrie McIntosh both went to Centerville High School and grew up in Centerville. Their parents still live in the house the sisters grew up in, just off Rahn Road.
The Colcasures specialize in special-needs therapy but take patients from children to parents to grandparents. Kim Colcasure said some patients don’t know there is physical therapy available for people without special needs.
The Colclasures have four children, including Austin, a 10-year-old with disabilities.
The Colcasures both have a master’s degree in therapy from Andrews University. They are currently working on their doctorates in physical therapy from Utica University, an online university.
Kim Colclasure is also an adjunct professor in physical therapy at the University of Dayton, and she mentors UD therapy students in her clinic.
Colclasure said she hopes to add speech therapy and occupational therapy to the practice this year. She said she’d had a lot of new patients, but kept some who followed her to Dayton from her previous job in Peoria, Ill.
Carrie McIntosh said she was hoping to expand her seating and parking areas at McIntosh’s Bar and Grill this year. She also wants to hit $1 million in sales this year, and said she was close to hitting that point, though she didn’t release exact sale numbers.
The sisters say the community has welcomed them and their businesses.
“I feel like everywhere we (her family) turned, people are welcoming us,” Kim Colcasure said.
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