About Lone Star ABA
A Different Kind Of ABA Practice
Lone Star ABA is a telehealth-based practice built for Texas families, launching September 2026. We were founded on a simple idea: that caregivers are the most important people in a learner’s life, and that ABA therapy works best when it’s built around them, not around a clinic’s schedule.
Our Story
More than fifteen years ago, our founder, Amber Neely, BCBA, stepped into an ABA field that was still finding its shape. Insurance coverage was nonexistent. Models were varied. Clinicians spent real time with families, in living rooms and at kitchen tables, solving problems together.
The field has changed since. Services shifted indoors, into high-hour clinic-based programs. Waitlists grew. Rural families were quietly left behind. Caregivers were moved to the edge of their child’s care rather than the center of it. And the business of ABA began to outgrow the practice of it.
Some of that change brought genuine progress. But much of it left families, and clinicians, with less of what actually makes therapy work: time, flexibility, and real partnership.
The Moment It Became Clear
The decision to start Lone Star ABA came slowly, then all at once. The same kinds of families kept coming up in every conversation.
A family three hours from the nearest provider. A mom on a waitlist for eighteen months. A grandparent trying to help a grandchild without anyone ever teaching them how. A household where thirty clinic hours a week simply wasn’t possible.
Somewhere along the way, the field had stopped building for them.
So we started building for them. That’s the short version of why this practice exists, and who it’s being built for — doors opening September 2026.
For Our Clinicians
A Different Kind Of Place To Practice
The field hasn’t just changed for families. It’s changed for clinicians, too, and not always for the better.
What We’ve Seen
- Rising billable-hour requirements that crowd out thinking, planning, and supervision.
- Burnout among BCBAs who love this work and want to do it well.
- Less time with families. Less room for ethics-first decision-making.
- A profession drifting away from the reasons most of us entered it.
What We’re Building
- Reasonable caseloads that leave room for real clinical work.
- Ethical, assent-based practice as the default — not an exception.
- Time for supervision, reflection, and continued learning.
- A sustainable career for the clinicians who hold this work together.
Families deserve clinicians who aren’t running on empty. Clinicians deserve a practice that protects the quality of their work. We believe those two things go together.
Two Ways To Get Involved
Whether you’re a Texas family who wants to be first in line when we open, or a BCBA looking for a better kind of practice, we’d love to hear from you.