Emerging Behaviors Consulting

Empowering Clinicians at Every Stage of their Journey.

At Emerging Behaviors Consulting, we provide compassionate, evidence-based supervision, mentorship, consultation, and group training for individuals and organizations in the ABA field. Whether you’re working toward certification, growing as a newly credentialed BCBA, strengthening your clinical team, or looking for practical training for your staff, we offer personalized guidance and engaging learning experiences to help you grow with confidence, clarity, and purpose.
Our mission at Emerging Behaviors Consulting is to elevate the next generation of clinicians by delivering high-quality supervision, intentional mentorship, and consultative support that strengthens professional skills and inspires confident, ethical, evidence-based practice.
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Meet Samantha

As the founder of Emerging Behaviors Consulting, Samantha brings nearly a decade of clinical leadership, supervision experience, and a deep passion for supporting clinicians at every stage of their ABA journey.

With a background spanning home and clinic based services, clinical direction, multi-site leadership, and mentoring dozens of trainees, she offers a balanced, compassionate, and developmentally grounded approach to supervision and consultation.

Samantha O'Dea and her husband. Samantha is a BCBA in Maryland and is available to provide supervision, mentorship, and consultation services to individuals pursuing their BCBA or are BCBAs.
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Support Designed For…

  • Students pursuing BCBA certification who need high-quality supervision and a strong clinical foundation

  • Newly certified BCBAs navigating caseloads, program writing, time management, and early career challenges

  • Experienced clinicians seeking an outside perspective, case consultation, or higher-level clinical guidance

  • ABA business owners and startup founders needing support establishing systems, workflows, and RBT training structures

  • Clinicians aiming to strengthen their practice with mentorship grounded in development, creativity, and assent-based care

  • ABA organizations and clinical teams seeking practical group training on topics such as RBT development, staff performance, onboarding, sleep, verbal behavior, pairing and rapport, and other ABA-specific topics

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