Behavioural Coaching
All behaviour serves a purpose
What is Behavioural Coaching/Consulting?
Children are in a continuous state of growth, seeking to become more than what they presently are. However, the extent of their potential and accomplishments can be overshadowed by challenging maladaptive behaviours that become a barrier to development and social/emotional well-being. Without appropriate guidance and support, this can leave a child forever limited by the urgent behavioural interventions they require in the moment.
Through the utilization principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) in combination with positive psychology, a well-developed behavioural plan is designed to promote behavioural change long-term, giving individuals and families an increased quality of life, positive social interactions, and overall well-being.
Behaviour coaching assesses individuals and their environment using evidence based techniques and data collection to help determine the function of specific, targeted behaviours, identify the onset, and establish consequences that maintain that behaviour using a biopsychosocial approach to address developmental needs.
Behavioural coaching options include:
Level 1 – Coaching Your Child’s Potential
This mode of coaching works directly with the child that recognizes the effect and limitations their current behaviours have on their development and growth and understands that changes need to be made in order to reach their fullest potential and advance their social, emotional, and behavioural well-being. This level of coaching aims at building positive emotions, rather than solely focusing on the reduction of negative factors.
Level 2 – Parent/Caregiver as Coach
Working directly with parents/caregivers to define the challenges they are facing, develop clear behavioural change goals and a plan of action to promote improved communication, enhance current skills, and develop appropriate tools to effect behavioural change. The aim is to improve aversive patterns of family interactions that engender disruptive behaviour and promote a healthy unified family dynamic.
Level 3 – Coaching Challenging Behaviours
Working with the child and parents/caregivers in collaboration with other professionals to help address and overcome behaviours that are negatively impacting social development and relationships with others. This aims at identifying barriers, building confidence and generating motivation to acquire new skills and appropriate tools to adapt to their environment and lessen the probability of the child engaging in negative behaviours.

Who is Behavioural Coaching for?
Behavioural coaching is appropriate for children that are engaging in problematic or inappropriate behaviour. This service may be recommended by your therapist or can be requested by the parent/caregiver. This service may also act in tandem with a child’s current therapy support plan.
This service may be appropriate if:
- Coping strategies for problem behaviour have been tried without results
- The child is engaging in dangerous behavior (aggression, self-injury etc)
- The child’s behaviour is negatively impacting others and their safety
- The child’s behaviour is impacting their own future development and progress
- The child’s behaviour poses a health/hygiene threat to themselves
The aim of behavioural coaching will be to decrease inappropriate behaviours that are not working and increase socially appropriate ones in order for children and families to be successful both at home and in the community.
Fee Schedule for Behavioural Coaching
Please review the fees for the selected services. Prices are subject to change. For the most up-to-date pricing information, visit the “How it Works” page or our online booking site.
Virtual Consultation with the Behavioural Coach
Home visit with the Behavioural Coach, plus additional travel charges
Intake
It begins with a conversation. You may know what services you are looking for, or may want to talk that through with someone who can guide you. Coming into our clinic begins with a call to our Administration staff to schedule your first appointment with a therapist. This first appointment may be a consultation where we collect relevant history and the details related to your most pressing concerns. The first appointment may also involve an assessment, where we are using standardized testing to inform next steps and recommendations.
Support Plan Development
Following the consultation/assessment appointment, the therapist will use the information gathered, and with the caregiver’s input, build a mutually agreed upon support plan. This may include goals for individual therapy sessions, further additional assessments, and guiding recommendations.
Therapy Sessions
Therapy sessions include the therapist, the child and the caregiver. Caregivers are encouraged to join in their child’s therapy sessions to observe the progress their child has made, to understand the activities and the desired outcome, and to learn how what happens in the therapy session can translate to the home setting. These sessions are also important in building rapport between your child, yourself and the therapist, as this is how we get to know you better and shape our sessions to meet your child’s individual needs.
Review and Next Steps
Once several therapy sessions have taken place, and the child has met their goals as laid out in their support plan, your therapist will meet with you to discuss next steps. This time of reassessment is an opportunity to celebrate the gains that have happened through therapy and determine what next steps are recommended to take place. This may include adjusting the support plan and carrying on with therapy sessions, or perhaps referring to an additional discipline to assist in reaching some new objectives, or celebrating the end of therapy sessions and your child reaching their goals!
Our Process
Here at LSCTS, our process can be boiled down to four essential steps. Our process ensures that our team follows best practices for each child and their families, every single time. Although we follow a standard process, the help and care that your child receives will be as unique as they are.

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