Behavioral Life Coaching
Using the Science of Applied Behavior Analysis to Change Habits, Live your Values and Achieve Goals.
Why choose me over other Life Coaches?
Training and experience make a big difference in achieving your goals and achieving them more quickly.
Don't waste your time and money on pop psychology, or the latest fad influencer. Put my experience and the proven technology of Applied Behavior Analysis to work for you.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is the gold standard of science-based behavior change technologies, used to effectively change even the even most difficult and treatment resistant behaviors in the most challenging clinical populations with high success rates.
But does ABA work for typical individuals to increase goal related behavior and reduce unwanted habits?
The answer is a resounding yes! Over 50 years of research indicates that ABA is highly effective for changing a wide variety of habitual behaviors. I have helped many clients change their eating habits, increase exercise, improve their relationships with their children, co-workers and significant others, get more done at work and home, and make meaningful changes to overcome other challenges and achieve many goals.
But hasn't ABA been around forever?
Today's ABA has evolved far beyond its beginnings in the 1960s. But the fact ABA has been around a long time is good, because it has been constantly improving and growing through research and practice for over 50 years. Today's ABA includes many new methods that allow faster and more effective behavior change than ever before.
Doesn't everybody already know how to do behavior change?
It seems simple, but it can be VERY complex. I thought I knew a fair amount about behavior change after taking a graduate class about it in my first master's degree in counseling, but after completing a second master's degree consisting of eight graduate classes specifically on ABA, I realized I was only beginning to understand how to design effective behavior change programs. To better understand the complexities, subscribe to my Next Level Lifehacks newsletter to get tips on little known behavior change facts, strategies and methods.
Why is ABA effective?
A useful analogy to understand why ABA is so effective is that our brain operates a lot like a horse and rider.
The rider represents our upper brain, the seat of our goal directed thinking. The horse represents our unconscious lower brain drives and urges. The horse is in direct control of where the two are going!
However, if the rider trains the horse well, it will take the rider where she wants to go. On a well-known trail, the horse will take the rider to the destination, even if the rider falls asleep! That is the power of developing good habits.
In life coaching, ABA is the most effective method to use our conscious upper brain to successfully train our unconscious lower brain and body to engage in the goal related behaviors that will help us live our values and achieve success in our endeavors.
Let's put the power of ABA's proven approach to work for you. We will build a plan together to help you live your values and achieve your dreams.
Email me now to schedule a free initial consultation to discuss how we can work together towards your goals!
kirkarndtlba@gmail.com
Parent Coaching
Over 20 years of experience providing effective evidence-based parent coaching. Email me to schedule your free initial consultation today. kirkarndtlba@gmail.com
Services available in-person or via teleconference or phone call.
Behavioral Consultations
From one-time Consultations to Ongoing Support
Consultations with families, caretakers or agencies can range from a single phone call or videoconference to problem solve ways to manage one behavior to ongoing family sessions or regular attendance at your agency staff meetings. Services to families and individuals include parent and staff training and coaching, conducting functional behavior assessments and developing positive support plans, behavior monitoring and program adjustment.
Applied Behavior Analysis Services
Functional Behavior Assessment and Positive Behavior Supports Plan
I will design and conduct an assessment tailored to the client's specific needs. This can range from a brief practical functional assessment to a full 245D compliant Functional Behavior Assessment and Positive Behavior Support Plan, which averages 20 to 30 pages. Assessments will require interviews and observations of the client in the setting where interfering behaviors occur. These can be conducted in person, remotely through video conference, or by submission of recorded video of the behavior.
Billing and Payments
Standard Fees:
$ 100 for 25 minutes direct interaction
$ 200 per 50 minute direct interaction
$ 200 per hour indirect work
Private Payment accepted via cash, check, Cashapp or Venmo.
Consultation, assessment and parent skills training fees are reimbursable through most HSA and FSA accounts.
An initial 15 minute consultation is free for all services.
*all fees must be paid in advance or at the beginning of the session.
* Multiple appointments scheduled in advance must be paid for in advance to reserve time on my schedule. If I am unable to attend, I will reschedule or provide a full-refund.
* In order to reschedule appointments without charge, notice must be given a minimum of 24 hours before the appointment. Late notice will result in a full charge for the scheduled time.
Contact me at kirkarndtlba@gmail.com to schedule appointments.
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