From My Kitchen to Remote BCBA Supervision: How This Started

This company did not start in an office. It started in my kitchen.

My wife had friends over. They were talking about their kids and the daily chaos that comes with parenting. The questions were practical: routines, bedtime battles, transitions, meltdowns, constant negotiation, and the feeling of walking on eggshells.

I was a BCBA. I knew behavior analysis works. I also knew something that gets lost in the noise: ABA is the science of behavior. If someone behaves, ABA can help.

The kitchen classes grew, then strangers started showing up

The weekly kitchen classes spread. Friends told friends. Then friends of friends reached out. Then people I had never met wanted in.

That is when it hit me: this was not just a nice idea. It was filling a real unmet need.

Families wanted practical behavior support, and they either:

• did not know what ABA was

• did not understand that the science of ABA can be used on everyone, both neurodivergent and neurotypical

• did not qualify for insurance-funded ABA because of diagnosis requirements

• were stuck on waitlists that dragged on forever

• hit barriers that made getting help feel impossible
  

Culpeper Baptist Church stepped in

Once strangers started showing up, we needed a bigger space. Culpeper Baptist Church in Culpeper, Virginia, stepped up and let us use their facility so the classes could keep going. Then a winter day changed everything.

It snowed enough that it was unsafe to drive on a Saturday when once of the classes was planned. I walked to the church anyway, assuming nobody would come.

Almost every single family still showed up. Some drove up to two hours each way for that one-hour class. That was the moment I realized:

• The need was bigger than I thought.

• The format had to, again, be changed

So I moved the classes online and moved from a group format to all one-on-one meetings with each family and a remote BCBA Supervision company was born. I never wanted to be a practice owner. It just kind of... happened.

How a kitchen class turned into a model for remote BCBA supervision

The move to online services opened the door for what we do today: a remote model where trainees from across the country earn fieldwork hours with us while working one-on-one with real families through telehealth. Trainees don’t just “get hours.” Their supervision fees directly fund access for families who often would not qualify for, or be able to wait for, clinic-based care through insurance.

Want to be part of it? Interested in remote BCBA supervision?

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