Ms. Sarah Pierce is a Clinical Supervisor for our Parenting for Success Program in Southwest Florida. This program provides behavioral training and support to foster families. Sarah provides a high level of individualized behavioral support to assist foster and adoptive families as well as relative and non-relative caregivers in dealing with children who have a history of trauma and abuse.
Sarah received her Master’s degree in Psychology with a specialization in Applied Behavior Analysis from Florida State University. Her interest in behavior analysis began during her undergraduate studies at Florida State University, where she worked with a young child on the autism spectrum who received in-home behavior support services. Sarah’s curiosity of the field grew when trained and asked to implement behavior interventions in the home of the child. During her graduate studies, she worked in the public school setting as a consultant developing and training school staff to implement behavioral intervention programs with primarily typically functioning children in the elementary school setting. She is a member of the Florida Association of Behavior Analysis and the Capital Association for Behavior Analysis.
CURRENT INTERESTS
- Behavior Analysis in Child Welfare
- Prevention Services
- Parent and Staff Training
- Analysis and treatment of problem behavior
EDUCATION
- M.S. in Psychology with specialty in Applied Behavior Analysis from Florida State University
- B.S. in Psychology from Florida State University
PERSONAL INTERESTS
- Tennis
- Table tennis
- Scrabble
- Cooking
- Abstract art
- Traveling
