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Behavioral Health & Consulting Psychology provides:
1) Applied Behavior Analysis in Autism, Developmental Disabilities, & Intellectual Deficiencies
2) Supervision for licensure, BCBA, BCaBA, and professional growth.
3) Coaching based on personal growth models such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP), Motivational Interviewing, and Cognitive Behavioral Techniques.
(1) Applied Behavior Analysis. Behavioral Health & Consulting Psychology provides Specialized Consultation and Behavioral Consultation in Applied Behavior Analysis to NC Medicaid recipients and a full range of Applied Behavior Analysis services through other insurance programs such as Tricare, United Behavioral Health, and others.
I have extensive background and training in behavior analysis. I use this background to inform all of my work. For example, my supervision and coaching are always informed by behavioral and evidenced based practices. The most common application of the fundamental techniques of Behavior Analysis are in Autism & Developmental Disabilities, where discrete trial protocols are used to teach language & other adaptive behaviors AND behavior modification is used to reduce maladaptive behaviors.
If you are interested in Applied Behavior Analysis, especially for Autism Spectrum Disorders or Developmental Disabilities, please click here.
(2) Supervision. This is a frequently misunderstood term. There are different sorts of supervision with specific conditions that are required to be present, to be in complinace with NC law or insurance contracts. Click here for more details.
Some of the different types of supervision I provide include:
supervision to professional and paraprofessional providers who are contract employees of Behavioral Health, PLLC
clinical supervision through contracts with the Psychology Board and the Licensed Professional Counseling Board
training supervision for candidates for BCBA and certificants with the BCaBA
(3) Coaching. Coaching to assist already well adjusted individuals achieve excellence and professional growth): I provide Coaching in the model of the Third Wave of Behaviorally based interventions.
The first wave was Behavior Modification and I still have a commitment to Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) in autism and developmental disabilities. In the First Wave the Therapist is the active agent, using behavioral technology to assist the client to change. (This approach is still often the best for certain problems like Autism and Developmental Disabilities.) The Second Wave is based on Behavior Therapy in which the client is active, using techniques like Systematic Desensitization, Traditional Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, etc. (This approach is still often the best for specific problems like anxiety, health related problems, etc.) In the Third Wave the therapist and the client are interactive, the therapy is contextually based, and there is a high reliance on therapist-client relationship to effect change. Third Wave approaches are things like Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and some CBT+Mindfulness Based Approaches. (The Third Wave approaches are best for therapy in which problems are broad, contextual, or even existential in nature.)
I am committed to and provide ABA services as the best supported evidenced based practice for autism and developmental disabilities. CBT is a well supported evidenced based practice for the treatment of specific anxieties, depression with environmental determinants, and maladaptive health related behaviors. My preferred approach for problems that do not have specific determinants or for Coaching is based on FAP and ACT.
If you are interested in Coaching to achieve excellence, please click here.
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