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Contact Sahar: sahar@bpbehavior.com

Sahar Faramarzi, MA, BCBA, LBA

Sahar is a dedicated mother and board certified behavior analyst (BCBA) who has been passionate about working with children from an early age. She started volunteering to help teach children since she was in middle school and never looked back.

During her studies she grew fascinated with applied behavior analysis (ABA) and the impact that early intervention can have on the lives of children with autism. Sahar eventually fell in love with the science of human behavior and has dedicated her professional career to applying her expertise to improve the lives of children with behavioral disorders. Sahar has been working in the field in various capacities for over 15 years now.

Sahar received her masters degree in Psychology and her coursework in ABA from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. During her training, Sahar gained clinical experience working with children, adolescents, and young adults with autism and other developmental disorders at the Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Ivymount School in Rockville, Maryland. During her time at KKI, Sahar worked as a behavior data specialist in an inpatient unit assessing and treating patients who engaged in severe problem behaviors. At the Ivymount school, she worked as a behavior specialist with students in a self-contained classroom who also engaged in severe challenging behaviors. Most recently, Sahar was overseeing the early intervention autism clinic at Children’s Medical Center, Dallas. Sahar is also a certified therapist in the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) approach.

After several years of training and honing her clinical skills, Sahar is now pursuing a long time dream of starting her own private practice. Her goal is now simply to use her knowledge and experiences to enrich the quality of life of her clients and their families.