Brittany Pugh, MA, BCBA | CEO & Owner

With a focus on affordable and effective therapy, the end goal for River Rock Behavioral Therapy is to create an environment that refocuses therapy on patients and families by providing real benefits and support for employees.  In order to achieve this, I fully believe that we have to take the focus away from profit margins and direct funds toward patient and employee well-being.  To be more specific, River Rock Behavioral Therapy will aim to limit employee turnover by maintaining a small private practice and raising employee benefits to include the following for each employee:

• Free housing/utilities
• Free uniforms
• Free childcare 
• Paid maternity/paternity/adoption leave
• Free breakfast and lunch on workdays
• 4-day workweek 
• Paid salary
• Paid health insurance premiums
• Retirement pension 
• Weekly In-house educational courses that focus on life skills and personal development
• 4 weeks of PTO
• Paid sick leave 
• Paid bereavement leave
• Paid miscarriage/pregnancy loss leave
• Paid certification costs and CEU's 
• Certification in First Aid/CPR & Infant CPR
• Gas stipend / Mileage reimbursement 
• Paid Time Off for Routine Medical Appointments
• Free basic healthcare
• Free mental healthcare
• Menstruation leave
• Childcare for children who are sick
• Pet bereavement leave

It is my sincere belief that an employee should not have to choose between healthcare and groceries.  At River Rock Behavioral Therapy, employees are provided a supportive environment with real benefits that seek to fulfill employees' needs so therapy can be refocused on patients.  This will also be achieved by reducing my own salary to the same of our employees and redirecting that funding toward employee benefits and patient resources.

Additional services we hope to provide for the community in the near future include childcare for children with special and behavioral needs.  After being present in the special needs community, it is evident that there are not many childcare resources for children with special needs, resulting in parents often having to miss work or resign due to a lack of supportive childcare that can provide real benefits to children with special needs.

Parents of children with special and/or complex behavioral needs are among the most stressed-out parents in the United States.  We hope to provide a supportive and informative environment where parents and guardians can come together to share their experiences and support each other.

Parent training is a common part of ABA therapy, however, we hope to provide regular weekly group and individual parent training sessions where parents can learn ABA techniques and strategies to use with their children in daily life in order to increase quality of life and behavioral health.