Robin
Schelling.
Board Certified Behavior Analyst. A solo practitioner by choice. The person who actually answers the email.
Trained as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and shaped by years inside the agency model, Robin left to build something smaller — a practice where families could actually reach her.
Assent-based, neurodiversity-affirming, and built on relationship. Protocols matter, but only after a child trusts the person holding them.
Growth, like the oaks outside her office, happens slowly and on its own schedule. Her job is soil, water, and patience — not a stopwatch.
Robin lives and works on the Central Coast. She drives to your home, meets your dog, and learns the names of your kids' stuffed animals.
The long version.
Before Bright Oak, Robin spent years inside large ABA agencies — the kind of places where clinicians juggle thirty families and the BCBA you meet at intake is not the BCBA who shows up on week four. The work was good, the systems were not.
She opened a solo practice on the Central Coast to fix the math. A smaller caseload means more hours in each home, more time on the phone with parents, and a relationship that lasts from intake through graduation.
Her approach is modern behavior analysis — assent-based, neurodiversity-affirming, and quiet about jargon. If you've read something online about "old ABA" and it made you uncomfortable, start by telling her about it. She probably agrees.
Outside of work she is, among other things, a reader, a hiker, and someone who genuinely likes oaks.