Kirsten Becker - BCBA, LBA

I started my career working for Challenge Champions Equestrian Center, a nonprofit organization founded by my grandmother, where we helped children and young adults with disabilities, PTSD, or trauma ride horses for therapy. I worked there all throughout high school and found a love for working with children and overall people just needing help and care. This experience led me to become a registered behavior technician working with children with autism, and then I went on to get my master's to become a BCBA. Currently, I serve as a clinical director and board-certified behavior analyst for children up to the age of [AGE] with autism, giving them therapy to prepare them better for long-term life, getting them prepared for school, getting them prepared for future endeavors such as getting a job, driver's license, etc., and overall increasing their quality of life. I manage a caseload of about 13 different clients and their technicians, supporting the technicians in the therapy they provide, reviewing treatment plans, reviewing quality of therapy given, as well as helping aid clinic responsibilities of making sure that the clinic is running operationally and that all BCBAs are giving adequate care and adequate instruction to their technicians. I also have the privilege of teaching other BCBAs through the Purdue Global master's degree program to further educate our future practitioners.