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Industries / ABA & Behavioral Health

The BCBA shortage is real.
Your hiring shouldn't make it worse.

A recruiting team for ABA networks, autism therapy providers, and behavioral health platforms. End-to-end hiring. Multi-state credentialing-aware. PE-timeline-aware. Flexible week-to-week. Built for clinical and operational hires that need to close in months, not seasons.

Why ABA hiring is different

The problems
most firms don't see.

01

The BCBA shortage

Demand has outpaced board-certified supply for years. Competing on comp alone does not move the needle. Sourcing has to reach BCBAs who are not on the open market and will not respond to a generic recruiter.

02

Clinical-grade turnover

First-year turnover for clinical staff can hit fifty to sixty percent in some markets. The cost is not just the rehire. It's the family cycling through three therapists in a year.

03

Multi-state credentialing

Every state has its own licensure rules, payer contracts, and supervision requirements. A search that works in Texas does not translate to Massachusetts without rework.

04

PE timelines on a clinical bench

Sponsor-backed platforms need senior clinical operators in seat to hit the value-creation plan. The sourcing pool is narrow. The timeline is tight. The wrong hire stalls the whole thesis.

What we recruit

Clinical leadership, operations,
and platform roles.

The roles below cover the full clinical and operating layer of an ABA platform. Same scoring rubric. Different sourcing networks.

  1. 01

    Clinical leadership

    Chief Clinical Officers, VPs of Clinical Operations, Regional Clinical Directors, BCBA-D-level oversight roles.

  2. 02

    BCBAs & supervision

    Senior BCBAs for high-acuity sites, clinical supervisors, RBT training and quality leadership.

  3. 03

    Operations & growth

    Regional and multi-site operators, Heads of Intake, Heads of Payer Relations, RCM leadership.

  4. 04

    Executive & PE-backed CXO

    CEOs, COOs, CFOs, and integration leadership for sponsor-backed ABA platforms and behavioral health networks.

Outcomes

Numbers that matter
to a clinical operator.

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Average retention at twelve months across clinical placements.

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Median time to BCBA placement for active searches.

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States we've placed clinical and operations leaders in.

The conversation begins
upstream of the role.

The first calls that matter are strategic. They surface what the business needs to accomplish over the next four quarters and where the talent question actually sits. Fifteen minutes is enough to start. We come prepared.