Over a decade working with children and families across clinics, schools, and living rooms on Long Island.
Background
You've sat in evaluations, read the reports, and navigated systems that weren't built with your family in mind. Maybe you're just getting started and feeling overwhelmed. Maybe you've been in services for years and something still isn't clicking. Either way, you're looking for more than a program — you're looking for a partner who listens first and brings real science to the table.
I'm Dr. Douglas Kupferman — a doctoral-level board certified behavior analyst with over a decade of experience across clinics, schools, and homes on Long Island. I entered the field in 2012 as a one-to-one therapeutic assistant and spent the years that followed working in intensive ABA school settings, insurance-based agencies, and eventually as Clinical Director for a multi-state ABA organization. I completed my doctoral training at Caldwell University — one of the few institutions in the country to offer a PhD in Applied Behavior Analysis — working directly with children and families inside the Center for Autism, supervised by faculty who are active researchers publishing in the field's leading journals.
I launched KBC in March 2026 because what I was seeing in the industry no longer aligned with why I had entered it. I work with a small number of families at a time. That's intentional. The families I see deserve a clinician who knows them — not a caseload that makes that impossible.
my approach
I. Two Experts
Every consultation begins with what you know— what you notice, what you've tried, what the environment looks like. Your observations are clinical data. I treat them that way.
II. Behavior as communication
Before any strategy is proposed, we need to understand what your child is communicating through their behavior. The question isn't "how do we stop this?" It's "what is this telling us?"
III. You are the intervention
Behavioral change happens at home, not in a session. I train you to recognize what's driving the behavior and respond in ways that work — no ABA background required, no jargon.
IV. Aligned across settings
The adults in your child's life — teachers, therapists, grandparents — are part of the plan. I keep them in the loop in writing and by being available for the conversations that need to happen.
why this works
"I grew up with ADHD and a learning disability. I was in honors and AP classes throughout school, because the challenges didn't define the ceiling — they just made the path harder to navigate."
Nobody had a roadmap for me to follow. I had to build one. I remember being told, in ways both direct and indirect, that honors classes and an IEP didn't belong together. The system saw a contradiction where I saw a person. That experience never left me. It sits underneath everything I do clinically.
When I meet a family who is exhausted, frustrated, and convinced that the system doesn't see their child clearly — I understand that at a level that goes beyond training. What drives me professionally is the belief that behavior analysis, done right, is one of the most powerful tools we have for helping children and families build that roadmap. But it has to be individualized, rooted in science, and delivered with genuine respect for what families already know about their own children.
