About Us
Who We Are: A Team Dedicated to Your Child’s Growth
At Skills for Life ABA, we believe that every child deserves the chance to reach their full potential. Our team of Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) and trained Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs) specialize in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Therapy for children, offering a professional and compassionate approach that is always tailored to the individual.
What makes us different is our commitment to family-centered autism support. We don’t just work with children — we work with parents too, giving you the tools and confidence to support your child’s development beyond therapy sessions. Together, we create an environment where your child can flourish.
Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)
BCBA, or Board Certified Behavior Analyst, is a master’s degree level clinician who designs, oversees, and continuously refines your child’s ABA therapy program.
Why They’re Important to the Team:
BCBAs serve as the lead clinicians on your child’s case. They use evidence-based assessments and data-driven insights to identify your child’s strengths, needs, and goals, and then design a personalized treatment plan to promote meaningful skill development.
How They Help Your Family:
Your BCBA closely monitors your child’s progress, adjusts strategies as needed, and collaborates with your family to ensure therapy goals align with your priorities. They train and guide the therapists working directly with your child to make sure each session is purposeful, effective, and encouraging.
Think of the BCBA as the architect of your child’s success plan — blending science, compassion, and creativity to build meaningful progress every day.
The BCBA’s Role in Parent Coaching
Your BCBA plays a central role in helping parents understand and apply behavioral strategies. This might include:
Teaching Foundational ABA Principles
The BCBA explains the “why” behind behavior— helping families understand triggers, patterns, and ways to support skill development.
Demonstrating Strategies in Real Time
BCBAs model how to use strategies during everyday routines such as mealtimes, transitions, bedtime, or community outings.
Coaching Parents Through Practice
BCBAs give gentle, supportive feedback while you practice new skills. The goal is empowerment — not perfection.
Creating a Personalized Plan for Your Family
Every family is different. The BCBA tailors coaching goals to meet your unique needs, routines, and priorities.
Monitoring Progress & Adjusting Strategies
The BCBA continually reviews data and feedback from parents to refine coaching techniques so they remain effective and family-friendly.
How Parent Coaching Fits into Our Collaborative Team Model
Parent Coaching is seamlessly woven into our circular model of clinical support:
i. Clinical Leadership guides and supports BCBAs, ensuring coaching methods reflect best practices.
ii. BCBAs coach and empower parents while supervising RBTs who implement daily strategies.
iii. RBTs help your child practice the same skills taught during parent coaching sessions, reinforcing consistency across environments.
This creates a full-circle, team-based approach where everyone works together to support you and your child’s growth — from leadership to BCBAs to RBTs to YOU.
Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)
An RBT, or Registered Behavior Technician, is a trained and certified professional who works one-on-one with your child to implement the treatment plan developed by the BCBA.
Why They’re Important to the Team:
RBTs are the hands-on members of the therapy team, they are the direct care professionals. They spend most of their time directly teaching, encouraging, and supporting your child during daily ABA Therapy sessions, turning the BCBA’s plan into meaningful realworld progress
How They Help Your Family’s Child:
RBTs focus on directly teaching language and communication, social interaction, pre-academic, and life skills while helping reduce challenging behaviors that may interfere with learning. They celebrate every small success and provide the consistent, caring support that helps children feel confident and motivated.
If the BCBA is the architect, the RBT is the builder — bringing your child’s ABA Therapy program to life with patience, skill, and heart.
The Role of Supervision
Supervision is a vital part of maintaining quality, consistency, and effectiveness in ABA therapy. It involves the BCBA providing ongoing coaching, observation, feedback, and support to the RBTs delivering therapy.
Why It’s Important to the Team and Program:
Supervision ensures that every session reflects the treatment plan accurately and that each team member continues to grow in skill and confidence.
Supervision keeps the entire team aligned around your child’s goals, ensuring consistency across sessions, settings, and team members.
How Supervision Helps Your Family’s Child:
Because supervision focuses on continuous improvement and individualized support, your child benefits from a therapy program that remains responsive, precise, and effective over time.
Supervision also ensures that everyone working with your child is implementing best practices rooted in compassion and science
Supervision is the heartbeat of quality ABA Therapy — keeping your child’s program strong, coordinated, and always moving forward.
Clinical Leadership and Overlapping Supervision
At Skills for Life ABA, our Clinical Leadership Team provides guidance, mentorship, and oversight to the BCBAs, ensuring the highest clinical standards and consistency across all programs.
How the Leadership Team Supports the BCBA:
Clinical leaders offer consultation, review case progress, and share expertise on complex cases. They ensure each BCBA is supported with ongoing professional development, collaboration, and access to the latest evidence-based practices.
The Circular Process of Overlapping Supervision:
This layered approach — where Clinical Leadership supervises and supports the BCBAs, who in turn supervise and train the RBTs — creates a continuous feedback loop of growth, learning, and quality assurance.
Each level of support enhances the others, ensuring that the entire clinical team is aligned and your child’s program is constantly improving.
How This Benefits Your Family’s Child:
Through overlapping supervision and leadership, every layer of care is strengthened.
Your child’s program benefits from multiple perspectives, consistent quality checks, and a collaborative team approach that prioritizes your child’s success and well-being.
How BCBAs and RBTs Work Together
The collaboration between BCBAs and RBTs is at the heart of our success. While the BCBA creates and monitors the treatment plan, the RBT brings it to life in day-to-day sessions. They communicate regularly to adjust strategies, celebrate progress, and ensure every child is moving toward greater independence. This teamwork provides families with a structured yet flexible approach to learning and development.
RBT Training & Certification
To ensure families receive the highest quality care, each RBT completes a rigorous training and certification process, which includes:
Because they spend the most time working one-on-one with children, RBTs often build strong, trusting relationships that make learning engaging, meaningful, and fun.
A Dedicated Team Supporting Your Child and Family
At Skills for Life ABA, your child’s success is a team effort. Each member of our staff plays an important role in creating and supporting an individualized therapy program. Together, we ensure that families receive the highest quality care and consistent support.
Operations Team
Behind the scenes, our Operations Team is dedicated to making the therapy process seamless for families. They:
By handling these important details, our Operations Operation Team allows parents to focus on what matters most: Being Parents! while supporting their child’s growth!
Core Values for Skills for Life ABA
- Inclusion & Dignity
- We welcome every child and family with respect, empathy, and cultural humility.
- We celebrate individuality and ensure that all learners have the right to participate fully in home, school, and community life.
- Nurturing Relationships & Collaboration
- We believe meaningful progress happens when families, clinicians, educators, and community partners work together.
- We communicate clearly, partner closely with caregivers, and value every voice on the team.
- Evidence-Based Excellence
- Our clinical decisions are guided by data, science, and the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis.
- We provide purposeful instruction, direct measurement, and interventions proven to make meaningful, lasting change. Value-Driven Integrity & Accountability
- We conduct ourselves with honesty, transparency, and responsibility.
- We honor our commitments, uphold the highest ethical standards, and hold ourselves accountable for delivering exceptional care.
- Enthusiasm, Encouragement & Positive Learning
- We create an environment where learners feel safe, supported, and motivated.
- We believe success is the best motivator—celebrating progress and fostering a lifelong love of learning.
- Safety, Support & Well-Being
- We ensure physical, emotional, and clinical safety for every child, family, and team member.
- We build environments that promote trust, consistency, and a sense of security in every interaction.
- Training, Growth & Empowerment
- We are dedicated to lifelong learning—for our clinicians, our families, and our clients.
- We empower children to build independence, communication, social connection, and real-world skills that enhance quality of life now and into adulthood.