Philosophy of Care
I love ABA therapy because it is optimistic. There are ways to improve behavior and we will find strategies to do just that using our data to make informed decisions about our interventions. Helping my clients build skills to replace deficits, to help them and their families make life improvements with communication, laughter, social interactions, and independence is why I chose the behavior analysis profession. 

 Michelle L. McDermott MS.Ed. BCBA

Owner & Founder

Michelle received her Master’s degree in Education, with a specialty in applied behavior analysis from Temple University in Philadelphia in 2014. She worked with children, adolescents and adults with autism at an internationally known private non-profit in Princeton NJ for over 11 years. During that time she trained staff, completed home programming and managed a supervised apartment program for adults living independently in community settings. She has set up in-home ABA programs for children and worked for various agencies in the New Jersey area. Michelle moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Colorado to join a large behavioral health company in February 2015, coming aboard as a Clinician. After starting a family in 2017, she rejoined the non-profit world in Denver as an Early Intervention Behavior Analyst. She is an active member of The Association of Applied Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) and Colorado Association for Behavior Analysis (COABA). 

Andrea Simpson M.Ed. BCBA

President Human Rights Committee 

Andrea Reavis received a Master of Science in Educational Psychology and ABA from Georgia State University. She received her training at the Marcus Autism Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where she held various clinical and research roles over the course of seven years. Andrea moved to Colorado in the Spring of 2014 which is when she joined Trumpet Behavioral Health. During her time at Trumpet, Andrea worked as a clinician and research coordinator, where she assisted in coordinating research initiatives, and partnered with members of the executive team to develop recommended practice guidelines for the assessment and treatment of challenging behavior. In September of 2017, Andrea joined Rocky Mountain Human Services, the community centered board for the city and county of Denver. There, Andrea works as a Program Manager in the Department of Behavioral Health, where she is developing a new collaborative program to enhance Denver’s systems of care for individuals across the life span with intellectual/developmental disabilities and cooccurring mental and behavior health needs.
Andrea has coauthored studies published in Behavior Modification, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Research in Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Research in Developmental Disabilities. Her primary interests include the assessment and treatment of challenging behavior, staff and caregiver training, and increasing the social validity of behavioral interventions. 
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