Our Mission

Colleen is an education professional with over 20 years experience in special education and applied behavior analysis! 

Her passion is to help others. Colleen has been a Board Certified Behavior Analyst for the past 14 years of her career. She has supported individuals ages 1.5 to 95 years old, with a variety of diagnosis, in a variety of settings including schools, home, residential, vocational, and community settings. She has extensive experience training teachers and professionals on topics such as Applied Behavior Analysis; Autism Education; Staff and Student Reinforcement; Data Monitoring; Creating Functional Goals for IEPs and making effective IEPs that are appropriate for meaningful IEP outcomes. She has experience training staff to implement goals, and training and supporting other behavior analysts. She has served on several non-profit Boards, with the goals to disseminate the science of applied behavior analysis internationally with compassion, and to advocate for high quality educational services for local families affected with autism. She has worked as an expert witness for behavior plan creation and behavior plan implementation, a guest speaker at autism conferences, as well as an adjunct professor for master's level behavior analysis courses. She has created systems for teachers and IEP teams to implement, monitor, and analyze IEP goals and objectives for progress monitoring for FAPE. She has also worked as a behavior analyst for the foster care system, to train and support successful parental reunification.  Colleen has created vocational programs, data collection systems, graphing and monitoring systems, and built special education programs in schools across the US, as well as volunteered with the local churches to create behavior plans and visual schedules for student with autism to access their family routines in the community and access the religious education curriculum.  Colleen's passion is to provide quality educational and behavioral consultation to underserved members of the community and to families who need support, and to use this science of helping people to serve her community with services that are compassion and collaborative.

Colleen has a passion for helping families through the complex IEP process, which can be overwhelming to families. While attending IEP meetings across her career, she watched parents and guardians struggle to understand the complex IEP process, behavior plans, what questions to ask, and what services were available for their child. Through their struggles, Colleen changed focus from a school clinician to join the parent side of the IEP table, in order to amplify their valuable voice and help them be comfortable and confident members of their IEP teams. Colleen's passions are: secondary transition planning services and outcomes advocacy, parent education, and helping to problem solve IEP goals that aren't making sufficient IEP progress. Colleen works with parents to help train, support, advocate, encourage, motivate and lift up parents in the special needs community so their voices are heard. Colleen has a wide range of knowledge and experience in educational and behavioral supports.

 Whether a parent is very knowledgeable about IEPs or new to the IEP process, Colleen advocates that parents should never go through the complex IEP process alone! Anchor Educational Consulting is here to help!