Moving Forward, Together.

The name is a little bit of a map.North represents true north—the direction we use as a reference point when we're figuring out where we are and where we want to go. For me, it also represents moving in the direction of our values rather than simply following the path that other people have laid out for us.Wise comes from the idea of wise mind, one of my favorite concepts that helps people find the place where emotion and reason can come together, creating enough space to respond thoughtfully rather than simply reacting. It is a practice I continue to work toward in my own life, and one I've seen help people find more calm and clarity when making both everyday choices and difficult decisions.And Studio is there because I like the idea of a place where we can explore. A studio isn't a place where everything has already been figured out. It's a place for curiosity, creativity, experimentation, and trying different things to see what works.Put them together, and North Wise Studio is about finding your direction, staying connected to what matters, and being willing to explore more than one way to get there.

Hello!  I am Hilary. I am the owner of North Wise Studio and the creator of Parent Partnership Care™, a supervision model to support new and upcoming BCBAs while they are supporting families.I am fortunate to have worked in a career I love - helping adults, children and families access learning needs and behavioral therapy for over twenty years. I have worked in homes, schools, foster care, juvenile justice, and integrated medical settings.  I am a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and I am currently completing a second Master's degree in Clinical Social Work.   My work as a behavior analyst in the public school system focused on students with developmental, emotional, and behavioral disabilities. I worked within broad teams to support students in accessing the least restrictive environment by addressing barriers and teaching needed academic, social-emotional, and executive functioning skills.  This experience working with a broad range of students with executive functioning differences helped me to co-develop the Executive Function Skills Assessment Tool (EFSAT), a behavior-analytic assessment to support evaluation and intervention for children who have executive functioning differences that make school, home, and social life more challenging.My professional training and interests include: Applied Behavior Analysis, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Relational Frame Theory as well as supervised experience implementing mental health therapy interventions such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Exposure Response Prevention, Internal Family Systems, and Process-Based Therapy. I love translating interventions across clinical frameworks into the possible underlying behavioral principles that drive behavior change. I use and am interested in the ethical use of AI-augmented professional practice and EHR platforms such as MDR, TwoFold, OHMD, and Intraverbal AI. My time in Utilization Review for Medicaid Managed Care Organizations also informs my commitment to ethical ABA services.While I am proud of the skills I have as a professional, I believe meaningful work begins with a genuine supervision relationship.  I take the time needed to understand the supervisee in front of me and the systems in which they live. Most importantly, I help them explore what they want out of life. From there, I’m interested in designing individualized experiences to help supervisees meet their professional goals. ​I live this work every day in my own life.  My experiences as a parent have taught me a great deal about living with uncertainty and advocating for the people you love. I know firsthand that sometimes the hardest but most freeing work is choosing to stay curious and open when things don’t go according to plan.​I have two young adult daughters and a micro-doodle Luna. I love how parenting has changed as they slowly figure out how they want to leave the nest.  I spend probably more time than necessary planning and counting down the days until my next international trip. In case you are wondering about all the compass metaphor, looking at maps has always been a favorite activity of mine (a map is one of my most prized possessions) and I have an ever-growing collection of favorite places saved on Google Maps. I like knowing where I might want to wander next as well as remember where I have been.  Maps remind me that there are many ways to get to a destination and part of the fun and frustration is considering all the different paths. In my career, I have seen the largest and most sustainable changes happen when parents are understood and supported with real skills. It is my hope that fellow behavior analysts find in North West Studios approachable supervision services that help them take steps toward creating the professional life they want. ​

North Wise Studio helps new and upcoming Board Certified Behavior Analysts navigate the successes and challenges of supporting parents in meeting their family's goals. We provide supervision that builds applied skills in the gap that exists between graduate education and real-world work with parents and families.We treat BCBA supervision as a way to welcome new clinicians into a profession that can be life-changing and positively impactful when a practitioner has ethical clinical skills, as well as knowledge and applied experience navigating the complicated family, educational, and medical systems that our families live within.  At North Wise Studio, we explore and work within a framework called Parent Partnership Care™ that analyzes and trains the skills necessary for a BCBA to competently practice across the spectrum of parent support from a coaching model that helps parents with everyday parenting challenges to a clinical model to provide medically-necessary applied behavior analysis services.  Specific analyst-level skills within the Parent Partnership Care™ model include: Selecting an appropriate partnership model for your parent and family from a coaching model to clinical therapy at the parent-mediated ABA level of careBuilding referral networks that are useful for families to find varied types and levels of support and to better position our profession within the helping services available to our families.Assessing the strengths and needs of parents as well as children and designing behavior analytic programs outside of traditional pediatric ABA assessments and standard goal banks.Monitoring for skill progress across a parent and child system while also tracking the impact of targeted skills on larger family outcomes and family quality of lifeOpportunity to learn and practice soft skills and business skills such as: nurturing coaching and therapeutic relationships with parents, shared decision making models in complex care cases, outcomes based measurement, ethical use of AI augmented workflows, understanding impact of family dynamics on interventions, and a beginning skillset to understand professional private practice, values based care, and insurance payor management. Ethical and quality comprehensive ABA care is a life- saving necessity for some children and families, however, North Wise Studio specializes in supervising current and future BCBAs who are working directly with parents as part of their field supervision and who are interested in long-term career goals outside of pediatric comprehensive care clinic models. North Wise Studio is a good fit for upcoming and new BCBA’s who would like to increase their scope of competence by adding skills in parent coaching and parent-mediated ABA services and who aspire to own or be part of smaller, independent clinician-owned practices. Our supervision services are also well-suited if you have an interest in Relational Frame Theory and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.North Wise Studio works with supervisees to ensure all contracts, hours tracking, and video observations are documented and preserved to meet BACB supervision requirements.  Pricing for supervision is transparent:  A supervision hour is priced at $100 with hourly rate discounts available for monthly prepaid packages. Supervisees must reside and work within the state of Florida at this time. The required shared client may be a child for supervision but all supervisees must also have access to the parents of their child supervisee.We view supervision as the first step in an ongoing partnership of colleagues interested in a common mission of improving the ways BCBAs interact with families and ethically practice within a powerful science.  Contact us today for a free 15 minute call to determine if supervision with North Wise Studio could be right for you.

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As part of my interest and commitment to expanding behavior analysis into the wider community, I am happy to share The EFSAT Book: Executive Skills Assessment Tool written by Dr. Regina Symons, Dr. Candice Colon, and myself, published with Different Roads to Learning with a tentative release in the first quarter of 2027. My work as a behavior analyst in the public school system focused on students with developmental, emotional, and behavioral disabilities. I worked within broad teams to support students in accessing the least restrictive environment by addressing barriers and teaching needed academic, social-emotional, and executive functioning skills.  This experience working with a broad range of students with executive functioning differences helped me to co-develop the Executive Function Skills Assessment Tool (EFSAT), a behavior-analytic assessment to support evaluation and intervention for children who have executive functioning differences that make school, home, and social life more challenging.