Sustainable ABA expands behavior-analytic attention to include the contextual, occupational, and internal variables affecting the practitioners responsible for delivering effective care.
What is Sustainable ABA?
Sustainable ABA is a training and consultation framework that addresses the internal variables affecting practitioners during their work.
More than 25 years in ABA & Mental Health…
I combine the perspectives of a BCBA and an LMHC (licensed mental health clinician) to help practitioners and organizations recognize demands, respond effectively, recover after activation, and build more sustainable practices.
The Issues Facing Practitioners:
Persistent activation during sessions
Emotional residue left over from difficult interactions
Hypervigilance when working with high-needs clients
Cognitive & sensory loads that exceed understanding
Compassion fatigue builds up over time
Insufficient recovery between demands weakens occupational satisfaction
Organizational contingencies that undermine sustainable performance
ABA emphasizes the variables that influence client behavior.
Sustainable ABA expands this focus to include relevant practitioner and workplace variables that can influence the delivery of effective care.
What Sustainable ABA adds:
Practitioner variables are relevant variables
Activation does not always end when an incident does
Recovery is part of effective performance, not separate from it
Personal skills and organizational context must both be evaluated
Insight matters when it creates effectiveness
ABA organizations
BCBAs and BCBA-Ds / Supervisors
RBT and direct care practitioners
Clinical and operational leaders
Those responsible for staff development, retention, and program efficacy