BRIAN BRUTZMAN, Ph.D., BCBA, LBA

Brian Brutzman, Ph.D., LBA, BCBA is a psychologist and licensed behavior analyst with more than a decade of experience as a behavioral consultant. He previously served as clinical coordinator for the Global Psychiatric Epidemiology Group at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. His published research spans various topics such as childhood social skill development, mental health during disasters, knowledge brokerage, and school-based intervention.  He is passionate about helping students achieve their potential in school and specializes in the mitigation of complex and challenging problem behavior in the home, school, and community. Brian holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Loyola University Maryland, a master’s degree in general psychology from New York University and a doctorate in social-personality psychology from Michigan State University with a specialization in quantitative methodology and evaluation science. He currently serves as the director of school-based services for Heartland ABA, providing support in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Wyoming.

Heartland ABA offers a variety of training opportunities for educators and early childhood providers which span classroom behavior management, understanding the function of challenging behavior, behavioral de-escalatation, social-emotional learning, understanding challenging behavior as a form of communication, implementing positive behavior interventions and supports at the scale of the individual, classroom, school, or district, and much more. We are happy to provide some of these training opportunities at no cost to our partners and look forward to learning more about your needs so that we can address them in a targeted, individualized way.