Private Pay Behavioral Support for Teens & Adults Across Florida:
Evidence-based behavioral services grounded in Applied Behavior Analysis for neurodivergence, executive functioning, anxiety, life transitions, independence and everyday challenges.
Phone: 352-783-5153
ABA Therapy & Behavioral Services in Florida
Human behavior is rarely simple. Anxiety can become avoidance. Chronic illness can reshape identity, routines, relationships, and trust in your own body. Trauma can teach the nervous system to respond to dangers that have long since passed. Neurodivergent minds may struggle not because they are deficient, but because they are navigating environments never designed with them in mind. And sometimes the person holding everyone else together quietly begins to disappear beneath the weight.
At Saltwater Alchemy, we use behavioral science to understand what is happening beneath the surface. Our work is grounded in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) principles, trauma-informed care, and evidence-based behavioral strategies. We work with teens, adults, families, caregivers, schools, and organizations to identify barriers, build meaningful skills, and create practical changes that carry beyond a therapy session and into real life.
ADHD & Executive Functioning
Sometimes the challenge doesn’t fall with charting the actual course. Perhaps you have a detailed map of what you wish to achieve but find yourself stuck somewhere between intention and action. Maybe it feels as though your brain has become grounded on an invisible sandbar, and you just can’t seem to get unstuck. We help high school students, college students, and adults understand how ADHD shapes attention, motivation, cognitive and executive functioning, while building practical skills for things like task initiation, organization, time management, procrastination, emotional regulation, academic demands, and workplace performance. Rather than simply handing someone another planner destined for the Davy Jones Locker of good intentions, we uncover the why beneath the individual struggle and build personalized strategies that work with your brain instead of endlessly fighting against it.
Neurodivergence and Autism
Neurodiversity-affirming behavioral support for teens and adults navigating emotional regulation, executive functioning, independence, social connection, school, work, and everyday life. Our goal is never to make someone appear more typical. We help people develop skills that allow them to thrive as themselves.
Anxiety Disorders and Panic
When fear begins making decisions, life can become smaller one avoidance at a time. We provide evidence-based behavioral support for panic attacks, anticipatory anxiety, anxiety sensitivity, avoidance, and anxiety-related patterns that interfere with everyday life.
Trauma
Trauma does not always remain in the past simply because the danger has ended. Experiences can continue shaping behavior, relationships, avoidance, emotional regulation, and the way the nervous system responds to the world. We provide trauma-informed behavioral support for acute, chronic, complex, medical, and other forms of trauma without reducing a person's story to a diagnosis or checklist.
Educational and School Consultation
Behavior is communication, and sometimes a student needs someone willing to look beneath the surface. Saltwater Alchemy works with families, students, schools, and districts through educational consultation, functional behavior assessments (FBAs), behavior intervention plans (BIPs), IEP and 504 consultation, executive functioning support, classroom observation, staff coaching, and individualized behavioral strategies designed for the environments where learning actually occurs.
Chronic Illness
Chronic illness changes far more than the body. It can alter relationships, independence, routines, identity, and the way a person experiences healthcare itself. We help individuals navigate medical anxiety and avoidance, uncertainty, changing abilities, grief, and the complicated work of building a meaningful life alongside illness.
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Caregiver Burnout
Caregiver burnout is not the absence of love. It is what happens when love has carried more than one human heart was designed to bear. We help caregivers address chronic stress, emotional exhaustion, guilt, boundaries, coping patterns, and the gradual loss of identity that can happen when caring for someone else consumes nearly every corner of life.
You Don't Have to Fit into One Category
People rarely arrive with one neatly packaged problem.
An autistic college student may also experience panic attacks. Someone living with chronic illness may develop medical trauma after years of procedures and uncertainty. A parent seeking behavioral support for their child may realize they have spent years quietly drowning in caregiver burnout. Trauma, anxiety, executive functioning, health, relationships, environments, and behavior frequently intersect.
You do not need to determine exactly where you belong before reaching out. That is part of what we can explore together.
Care that knows its scope
Saltwater Alchemy is rooted in the science of behavior and the belief that meaningful change is possible. We provide behavior analytic consultation, coaching, and support within the scope of applied behavior analysis using evidence-based practices and data-driven decision-making. While we often swim beside individuals navigating grief, anxiety, trauma, and life’s rougher waters, we are not a psychotherapy practice, nor do we offer psychological diagnostics or prescription management. When a journey calls for a different compass, we believe in collaborating with trusted professionals on a holistic level to ensure every person receives the care they deserve.