Applied Behavioral Health Practice

Applied Behavioral Health Practice We're here to help caregivers and schools empower their children and students
with neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD and ASD. You're not alone.

🧠 Does your brilliant teen struggle with:

✓Homework done but not turned in?
✓Hyperfocus on fun tasks, avoidance of boring ones?
✓Disaster-zone backpacks and bedrooms?
✓Knowing material but bombing tests? And you don't have to keep rescuing them forever. Hi, I'm Ryan Baker-Barrett, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst® who's spent years seeing what works in schools. But I also live this daily - I have ADHD, and so do my kids. I understand both the professional solutions AND the kitchen table chaos.

✨ What Changes:

✓ Your teen learns to break big tasks into manageable chunks
✓ They develop organization systems that work WITH their ADHD brain
✓ They build self-advocacy skills for school and life
✓ You stop micromanaging and start celebrating their wins

📞 Ready to go from exhausted helicopter parent to proud observer? FREE CONSULTATION → Low-cost assessment → Proven independence

Book your free call: +1 619-367-6445 or appliedbehavioral.health

BCBA® credential • School system experience • Personal ADHD journey

🧠 ADHD brain got you stuck in planning paralysis — or skipping the planner altogether?Introducing a free yearly planner ...
03/20/2026

🧠 ADHD brain got you stuck in planning paralysis — or skipping the planner altogether?

Introducing a free yearly planner built specifically for ADHD teens and adults — and it's not like any planner you've tried before.

This one is rooted in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) — a scientifically supported approach that helps you:

✅ Stop fighting your brain and start working with it

✅ Clarify what actually matters to you (your values, not someone else's)

✅ Take meaningful action — even when motivation is MIA

✅ Get unstuck without shame, pressure, or toxic positivity

No more blank pages. No more guilt. Just a structure that actually fits how your brain works. 🙌

🎁 It's completely free. Grab yours now

🧠 ADHD doesn't just make habits hard. It makes you invisible to yourself.When you're constantly reacting — to your mom's...
03/19/2026

🧠 ADHD doesn't just make habits hard.

It makes you invisible to yourself.

When you're constantly reacting — to your mom's stress, your boss's deadlines, your friend's opinions — you never stop long enough to ask: wait, what do I actually want?

That's not a character flaw. That's what ADHD does. And it's exactly why most habit trackers fail you.

They track activity. They never ask if the activity is even yours.

You need a values-based approach to planning and prioritizing.

And you need it now — because every week you spend chasing someone else's version of your life is a week you can't get back. 💙

My life values assessment and habit tracker was built specifically for ADHD brains by someone who gets it from the inside out — a BCBA with more than 10 years experience and a fellow late diagnosed ADHD brain.

I didn't build this from a textbook. I built it because I needed it too.

It helps you:

✅ Get clear on what you actually value
✅ Build habits that move you toward your own life
✅ Track progress that actually means something

❤️ Stop performing someone else's life.

Start building yours.

🔗 Check out my library of free tools on my website and get ADHD care today!

03/11/2026

Here's why your planning system keeps failing — and it's not what you think.

It's not because you need a better app. Or a prettier planner. Or more discipline.

It's because the moment you sit down to plan, your ADHD brain does about seventeen things before you've written a single word.

It runs the shame reel from last week.

It catastrophizes about next week.

It finds something urgent that absolutely cannot wait.

It compares you to people who somehow just... do things.
It whispers that this is pointless because nothing ever changes anyway.

None of that is a productivity problem. It's a psychological flexibility problem.

And that's exactly what ACT — Acceptance and Commitment Therapy — was built for.

Not to silence the noise. Not to fix your brain. But to teach you to hold it differently — so you can actually show up for your own week.

I built an entire guided meditation and planning worksheet around this. Six sections, one for each ACT process, designed specifically for the ADHD planning experience.

03/05/2026

If you’re a and tired of sitting through boring to earn those … this is for you.

Not only are my courses are , they're practical, and actually built for the work we really do.

Here’s what makes them different:

🥳 We have fun. Yes, CEUs can be engaging.
👋 We meet live. Real conversations, not just passive slides.
🔧 You’ll walk away with tools you can use immediately.
📢 Your voice matters. You get to contribute, not just consume.
💅 You’ll build community with other thoughtful clinicians.
❓ You can ask real questions and get real answers.

Still unsure? Here's just one slide from today's class.

Spaces are still available for next week's cohort.

Head to www.appliedbehavioral.health

and click “Enroll Now.”

Let’s raise the standard of in our field.

02/23/2026

When you have ADHD, embracing yourself isn’t just a mindset shift.

It’s an action.

It’s about recognizing your strengths, understanding your challenges, and giving yourself the supports that actually let your brilliance show up.

Most people with ADHD are already capable of more than they realize.

The missing piece isn’t motivation.

It’s access to the strategies, skills, and systems that make follow-through, focus, and regulation possible.

So embracing who you are today doesn’t mean pushing harder or hiding what’s hard.

It means:
🔧 Using tools that work for your brain

🏔️ Setting up environments that support your success

🎯 Practicing the skills that turn potential into results

When you do that, embracing yourself isn’t just a thought—it’s a lived, practical reality.

Practical. Skill-based. Science-backed.

Follow for ADHD support that helps you fully show up as yourself.

Calling all BCBAs—this course is for you!Are you ready to elevate your ADHD client strategies? I'm offering an exclusive...
02/23/2026

Calling all BCBAs—this course is for you!

Are you ready to elevate your ADHD client strategies? I'm offering an exclusive course for 10 BCBAs where you'll earn 4.5 CEUs in executive function assessment. Say goodbye to boring webinars—this experience is tailored to empower your practice and drive real breakthroughs for your clients.

Spots are limited! Visit my website now to enroll and start making a difference today.

02/19/2026

Tired of planners that don’t work with your ADHD brain?
I see this all the time as an ADHD coach. People don’t fail planners. Planners fail ADHD.

That’s why I made this one different:

It’s free. Print what you actually use. Ignore the rest without guilt.

It’s digital when it needs to be. Flexible, not another system to maintain.

It comes with a short online tutorial. Also free. Because a planner without guidance is just paper with opinions.

This isn’t about being more “organized.” It’s about reducing friction and making follow-through easier.

Grab it. Try it. Keep what helps. Toss what doesn’t. That’s the point.

02/18/2026

Your brain will offer you forty-seven reasons not to start.
Better timing. Better conditions. A version of you who’s more rested, more ready, more deserving.
Don’t wait for that version.
I built a free interactive planning tool based on Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) — because what most planners miss is the psychological part of getting unstuck.
In about 5–10 minutes, you’ll work through the six ACT skills that make planning actually work for your brain — and walk away with a personalized weekly plan you can download.
No perfection required. No right way to do it. Just a place to begin.
🔗 Try it free: getadhd.care/just-act-on-it
Neurodiversity

02/12/2026

🎬 Hot take: Professional development should feel like Netflix, not detention.
You can binge three seasons of a show in a weekend and remember every plot twist.
But that 6-hour webinar you took last month? Blank.
It’s not you. It’s the format.
Your brain is BUILT to learn through story, stakes, and pacing. That’s why you can’t stop watching at 2am saying “just one more episode.”
So why do we accept that CE training has to be:
❌ Boring slide dumps
❌ Monotone delivery
❌ Information you forget by next week
❌ Formats that violate everything we know about how brains work
Here’s what I know after 20+ years as a BCBA (and getting diagnosed with ADHD at 37):
Learning doesn’t have to suck.
That’s why I built Breakthrough ADHD Training like a binge-worthy show laced with video games.

Oh… and…Content you’ll actually remember and use
Same rigorous science. Completely different delivery.
Because if behavior analysts—who literally study reinforcement—can’t make training reinforcing... what are we even doing?

02/11/2026

Hey enroll now in our upcoming continuing education as we say goodbye to boring webinars! Here are a few of the things you get. ***1) Gamified, online tutorials ***2) 4.5 CEUs on 3) Complimentary consultation and a ***4) Microcredentials to showcase your skills

02/09/2026

That line sounds motivational.

Sometimes it’s used that way.

But in real life, especially with ADHD, it’s not about hidden potential or trying harder. It’s about access.

Most kids and adults with ADHD are capable of more.

They just don’t have consistent access to the skills they need in the moment those skills are required.

So when we say “you’re capable of more” and then pile on demands without teaching planning, regulation, task initiation, or follow-through, we’re not encouraging growth. We’re setting people up to fail.

I see this every day.
As a behavior analyst.
And as a parent with ADHD raising two boys with ADHD.

Capability isn’t fixed.

It’s conditional.

It depends on the environment, the supports, and whether the skills needed to meet the demand have actually been taught and practiced.

Good ABA, grounded in science, doesn’t assume potential will magically show up under pressure. It builds it deliberately. It designs systems where people can contact success more often, not just hear that they should be doing better.

“You are capable of more” becomes true when we do the work to make it true.

That’s what real ADHD support looks like.
Practical. Skill-based. Science-backed.

Follow for ADHD support that respects capacity and builds it.

02/09/2026

Meet Johnnie Lacy—a trailblazer at the intersection of civil rights and disability justice.

As a Black advocate, she fought tirelessly for inclusion, equity, and independent living, showing that access is a civil right.

Her work reminds us that disability justice and racial justice are inseparable: the systems that exclude people because of race often exclude them because of ability too.

Even though ADHD wasn’t formally diagnosed in her era, her advocacy highlights experiences that many neurodivergent people of color still face today: navigating a world that wasn’t built for them, demanding recognition, and creating systems that allow them to thrive.

Johnnie Lacy’s legacy isn’t just history—it’s a call to action: build communities, fight for access, and never separate justice from inclusion.

Practical.

Intersectional.

Necessary.

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