How We Help
Changing behavior and teaching skills
through evidence-based practices
to help every individual thrive in their community
For individuals and their families
Halo Behavioral Health Services
Functional Behavior Assessment
Before intervention begins, we conduct a thorough Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) in order to understand why a certain behavior or challenge is occurring.
Skill Assessments
Highly Individualized Programs
At Halo Behavioral Health, providing high-quality services is our top priority. We design clinical treatment programs tailor-made to accommodate the needs of every individual that we serve.
Early Intervention Services
Child & Adolescent Services
Utilizing the principles of ABA we develop treatment curriculum individualized to children ages 6 – 18 of all developmental stages and ability levels.
Adult Services
Caregiver Training
We provide comprehensive training for immediate family members, as well as for additional family members or caregivers that have regular and routine care responsibilities of the individual receiving services in an effort to establish continuity of care and maximize treatment gains.
Clinical Collaboration
We believe that to best serve our clients, coordination across interdisciplinary treatment teams is essential. When requested, we conduct observations of our clients as they receive other services and work with other providers (e.g. speech services, occupational services, physical therapy, etc.) in order to better establish continuity of care.
Consultation
For cases in which direct intervention is not necessary and / or feasible, we offer consultation-based services for parents and schools looking for less intensive, supplemental behavioral support.
Home-based Services
We offer our services in a home-based format in order to enhance the quality of life of our clients and their families by providing support where it is needed most.
Community-based Services
School-based Services
Natural Environment Training (NET)
Teaching in the natural environment means that teaching does not just occur at a desk or a table, but rather it occurs alongside play or other daily activities such as during outings, meal times, self-care routines, etc.
Discrete Trial Training (DTT)
Discrete Trial Training (DTT) is one of the most commonly applied evidence-based teaching methods utilized in ABA practices, often during early intensive intervention services. DTT is a strategy used to individualize and simplify instructions to increase children’s learning through the acquisition of complex skills by breaking each step down into smaller, teachable, “discrete” components.
Feeding Therapy
Feeding intervention programs are developed and implemented for individuals who demonstrate signs of food selectivity / rigidity, food aversion, and / or complete food refusal. Our clinical team develops individualized programs designed to expand the food repertoires of individuals with unhealthy and / or restrictive feeding behaviors to ensure that clients are able to receive the nutrients they need to shine.
Short-Term Urgent Clinical Care Services
We provide brief, short-term, intensive focused assessment and intervention for clients who require urgent clinical care in an outpatient setting.
Acceptance & Commitment Training (ACTraining)
Advocacy
We provide advocacy services for individuals who are in need of medically necessary services, but are not able to access those services due to reasons such as denials from insurance companies or school districts, or any other provider.
Functional Behavior Assessment
Before intervention begins, we conduct a thorough Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) in order to understand why a certain behavior or challenge is occuring. We utilize a variety of research and data-based techniques to ultimately uncover the internal and external factors that influence the behaviors of interest. From the results of this assessment, we are able to create individualized programs and / or provide treatment recommendations that are designed to remediate behavioral challenges with a function-based approach.
Skill Assessments
In order to provide the most individualized and effective treatment possible, prior to treatment, we conduct assessments that aim to identify skill deficits in all relevant domains of functioning (i.e. adaptive, play, cognition, executive function, language, and social). We pride ourselves on utilizing assessments that will best capture the individual needs of each client that we serve. Among the empirically validated assessments tools we utilize are the Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP) and Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales.
Highly Individualized Programs
At Halo Behavioral Health, providing high-quality services is our top priority. We design clinical treatment programs tailor-made to accommodate the needs of every individual that we serve. This is done through implementing exhaustive applied behavior analytic client assessments to precisely identify the function of challenging behavior and relevant skill deficits and subsequently utilizing these data to design a comprehensive curriculum composed exclusively of evidenced-based interventions for teaching complex and critically relevant skill repertoires that are likely to maintain and generalize across all relevant developmental domains (i.e., adaptive, motor, language, academic, social, play, cognitive, executive functions).
Early Intervention Services
Our intensive and early intervention program utilizes principles of applied behavior analysis (ABA) to help kids with intellectual and developmental disabilities between infancy and 6-years-old. Research has consistently demonstrated that early and intensive therapy is key in helping children learn new skills to increase positive behaviors such as communicating their wants and needs and interacting with others and reducing challenging behaviors such as tantrums and self-injurious behavior. This program is comprehensive and tailored to each child’s needs, consisting of up to 40 hour intervention programs to teach fundamental skills such as to communicate and interact with others, follow verbal instructions, increase self-soothing behaviors, become toilet trained, and more. Within this program, we assess each child’s learning needs, teach foundational skills that help children be ready to learn, and provide 1:1 therapy to develop skills across all domains of functioning (adaptive, motor, language, academic, social, play, cognitive, executive functions).
Child & Adolescents Services
Utilizing the principles of ABA we develop treatment curriculum individualized to children ages 6 – 18 of all developmental stages and ability levels. Our treatment programs for children place an emphasis on reducing challenging behavior that precludes learning, maximizing skill acquisition to produce age-appropriate independence, and intensive caregiver training to promote generalization of skills across natural environments (e.g., home, school, community).
Adult Services
Halo Behavioral Health offers comprehensive ABA-based programs for adults, aged 18+, that focus on increasing functioning and independence in daily life. Skills are targeted across multiple domains of functioning including adaptive, vocational, cognition, executive function, and social domains. Our clinical team develops individualized curriculum programs that aim to target areas of need specific to each individual in order to facilitate the achievement of long-term goals and address the range of functioning necessary to be successful in adulthood.
Caregiver Training
Caregiver participation is a significant component and crucial step in our treatment programs. Halo Behavioral Health has developed a specialized treatment approach in harnessing a family systems model that views each of our clients as only one part of a larger network in need of behavioral change in order to reach treatment goals. We provide comprehensive training for immediate family members, as well as for additional family members or caregivers that have regular and routine care responsibilities of the individual receiving services in an effort to establish continuity of care and maximize treatment gains.
Clinical Collaboration
We believe that to best serve our clients, coordination across interdisciplinary treatment teams is essential. When requested by caregivers and approved by service providers, we conduct observations of our clients as they receive other services and work with other providers (e.g. speech services, occupational services, physical therapy, etc.) in order to better establish continuity of care. The goals of these service providers will be integrated into Halo Behavioral Health’s therapy as is deemed appropriate and coordination of progress between providers will be encouraged and facilitated to the fullest extent possible to promote treatment gains and ensure maintenance and generalization of acquired skills. Additionally, upon parent request and approval, we provide supplemental and specialized training to service providers seeking consultation for behavior related challenges with shared clients.
Consultation
For cases in which direct intervention is not necessary and / or feasible, we offer consultation-based services for parents and schools looking for less intensive, supplemental behavioral support. Consultation services are based on a Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) from which a comprehensive behavior intervention plan is designed to reduce the occurrence of challenging behaviors. Our clinicians will provide caregivers / stakeholders with the necessary training required for the plan to be implemented in the settings which it is needed most.
Home-based Services
We offer our services in a home-based format in order to enhance the quality of life of our clients and their families by providing support where it is needed most. We believe that an individual’s behavior is shaped by the surrounding environment, so intervention should take place within the environment that will yield the most socially significant clinical outcomes. In this way, we are able to provide an entirely comprehensive approach which increases the generalization of skills across places and people that will last over time.
Community-based Services
The scope of our services is not bound to a single setting or environment. Different environments offer different opportunities to learn for individuals with developmental disabilities and neurotypical individuals with behavioral challenges, alike. We believe in providing comprehensive services wherever they are needed in order for our clients to reach their full potential. Thus far, we have accommodated client needs across a variety of settings including at parks and playgrounds, during extracurricular activities, at medical appointments, during family outings, at day and overnight camps, and the list goes on.
School-based Services
We provide a variety of support options for our clients in need of services in the school setting. Through the use of comprehensive and data-driven programming, we are able to target the needs of individuals across a variety of classroom environments in order to maximize their learning potential as well as support their social development. School-based services can include comprehensive assessments, specialized school-based behavior intervention plans, 1:1 support from a behavior technician, and school staff training opportunities / consultation.
Natural Environment Training (NET)
Halo Behavioral Health specializes in providing Natural Environment Training (NET), a teaching strategy falling under the umbrella of ABA that aims to teach skills by capturing and contriving learning opportunities in the learner’s natural environment. Teaching in the natural environment means that teaching does not just occur at a desk or a table, but rather it occurs alongside play or other daily activities such as during outings, meal times, self-care routines, etc. NET focuses on maximizing teachable moments and embedding reinforcement (i.e. rewards) into everyday tasks. In utilizing this approach, we are able to facilitate the generalization of skills we teach so that learners are more likely to use them outside of therapeutic sessions just as well as they do in them.
Discrete Trial Training (DTT)
Discrete Trial Training (DTT) is one of the most commonly applied evidence-based teaching methods utilized in ABA practices, often during early intensive intervention services. DTT is a strategy used to individualize and simplify instructions to increase children’s learning through the acquisition of complex skills by breaking each step down into smaller, teachable, “discrete” components. Discrete trials are called “discrete” because every instructional trial has a definite beginning and end (e.g., labeling flash cards, answering a question asked by another individual, matching one object to another identical object, etc.). Additionally, DTT is exceptionally useful for teaching new forms of behavior (e.g., speech sounds, fine and gross motor movements, etc.) and new discriminations (e.g., responding correctly to a variety of instructions). Alongside basic DTT, our clinicians ensure that generalization and maintenance of mastered skills are programmed for, in order to facilitate the continuation of the development of additional complex skills that can be utilized across environments and people.
Feeding Therapy
Feeding intervention programs are developed and implemented for individuals who demonstrate signs of food selectivity, food aversion, and / or complete food refusal. Our clinical team develops individualized programs designed to expand the food repertoires of individuals with unhealthy and / or restrictive feeding behaviors to ensure that clients are able to receive the nutrients they need to shine.
Short-Term Urgent Clinical Care Services
This service entails brief, short-term, intensive focused assessment and intervention for clients who require urgent clinical care in an outpatient setting. This service is to be provided for approximately 1 to 3 days. For example, a weekend in-person with brief and short-term follow-up sessions via telehealth.
Acceptance & Commitment Training (ACTraining)
ACTraining is a behavior analytic approach to dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions. The core concept of ACTraining is that psychological suffering is usually caused by the interface between human language and cognition, and the control of human behavior by direct experience. This approach takes the view that trying to change aversive thoughts and feelings as a means of coping is ultimately counterproductive. As such, the goal of ACTraining is to decrease escape or avoidant behavior by approaching aversive thoughts and feelings, while increasing behaviors in line with personal values.
Advocacy
We provide advocacy services for individuals who are in need of medically necessary services, but are not able to access those services due to reasons such as denials from insurance companies or school districts, or any other provider. This service primarily involves Halo’s clinicians collaborating and working with lawyers or social advocates in order to evaluate whether or not Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) is being met for the individual.
For more information regarding the rights of students with disabilities receiving special education services please visit:
Office
15335 Morrison Street #320
Sherman Oaks, California 91403-6709