Industry Profile

Since 2016, Matt Cicoria has hosted the Behavioral Observations Podcast, an interview-based show that has become one of the most widely listened-to ABA podcasts among clinicians. With more than 200 episodes and…

No advisory firm has shaped the ABA M&A market longer or more visibly than The Braff Group. With more than 375 completed healthcare transactions and the most widely cited deal data in…

Naples-based Mertz Taggart has built one of the most active behavioral health M&A practices in the country, publishing the quarterly market reports that compete most directly with The Braff Group’s data and…

Neil Hattangadi and Suzanne Goh met as Rhodes Scholars at Harvard Medical School, married, and spent years working separately — he in medical devices and hedge funds, she in a clinic that…

Founded in 2016 by a husband-and-wife team with no previous healthcare business experience, Action Behavior Centers has grown from a single clinic in Austin into a nationwide platform operating in nine states,…

She spent her Friday nights in high school at Barnes & Noble reading about OCD — then turned two decades of lived experience into the nation’s largest behavioral health technology community, while…

She spent two decades mastering accounting across industries before walking into a behavioral health company and spotting a gap that didn’t yet have a name — then built one of the country’s…

She spent 13 years scaling a fashion startup, survived SBA loan audits with Moss Adams, and sold her generalist bookkeeping firm to go all-in on ABA—all while running a 22-acre farm animal…

She’s one of fewer than 500 professionals worldwide who hold both SLP and BCBA certifications. She built a 250-episode podcast, a nationally distributed therapy product, a 500-member professional development platform—and a forthcoming…

A formative encounter with autism at 15 sparked a 25-year career that would produce one of New Jersey’s top autism programs, a 1,500+ curriculum AI-powered clinical platform built with support from the…

She moved to Ghana at 23, founded a nonprofit that now operates across 20 countries, rang the NASDAQ bell, won Columbia’s Medal for Excellence, built a business coaching practice with her wife—and…

She woke up one morning and couldn’t feel her hands. Seven years later, she’d built a test prep company that helped 10,000 students pass the BCBA exam, a podcast with nearly 5…

They met as teenagers in Utah, built careers at Ramp and Truework, raised $27 million from Accel and Bain Capital Ventures before writing a single press release—and now Silna Health is processing…

She founded an ABA practice at 28, consulted for private equity firms, co-wrote an Amazon #1 bestseller on neurodiversity transition planning, helped architect a workforce development program in her local school district,…