Jill L. Saxon, PhD, BCBA-D

Jill Saxon is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst at the doctoral level.  Dr. Saxon received her PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and trained for her BCBA at Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey.  She is a Licensed Behavior Analyst in New York and Massachusetts.  

Dr. Saxon began her career in Applied Behavior Analysis at Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center.  Initially, she worked as an Early Intervention provider in New Jersey.  It was in that role that she developed a passion for helping families develop their children’s communication skills and decrease concerning behavior.  In addition to providing direct ABA services, Dr. Saxon has provided parent training and coaching, school consulting, and oversight of home programming.  As a school consultant and district behaviorist, Dr. Saxon supported school staff to use ABA technology and evidence-based practices to improve the skills and reduce the interfering behavior of students with a wide variety of developmental disabilities and emotional and behavioral challenges.  

Dr. Saxon currently works directly with families, providing consultation, assessment, parent coaching, and home and school staff training.  She is fortunate to work with children with a wide variety of differences and challenges, including autism spectrum disorder, anxiety, OCD, and ADHD, and in a variety of areas, including feeding, toilet training, and sleep.  She is proud to integrate Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) into her behavior analytic work and has received additional training and supervision in ACT.  She has also trained as a provider of SPACE, Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions, a parent-centered intervention for children with anxiety and OCD symptoms.

Dr. Saxon provides workshops for families and professionals and has recently served as an Adjunct Faculty member at the Van Loan School, Institute for Behavioral Studies, at Endicott College.
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Dr. Saxon loves coming to work every day and feels very fortunate to be able to help children and families improve the quality of their lives.

Dr. Saxon has been cited in New Jersey Family Magazine! 

Credentials

Board Certified Behavioral Analyst – Doctoral, Certificant 1-13-12897, Behavior Analyst Certification Board
Meets 2015 Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) Standards for Supervision Requirement to supervise BCaBAs, RBTs, and BCBA Exam Candidates
New York State Licensed Behavior Analyst #001127
Massachusetts Licensed Applied Behavior Analyst #3971
New Jersey Early Intervention Services Child Development Specialist