Maribel is a lifelong learner and an advocate for the dissemination of Behavior Analysis. She also desires to support individuals with exceptional needs enhancing their quality of life and integration into society.
Maribel has more than 14 years of experience in Special Education; She resided in the United Arab Emirates for almost a decade to continuously practice and enhance her Special Education and coaching skills. Maribel is proficient in virtual coaching, program development, curriculum design, and implementation. She has strong observational skills to objectively defining an organization or an individual’s weakest repertoires while implementing evidence-based techniques to manipulate environmental variables to stimulate team collaboration, learning competencies for naïve learners who need guidance to improve independence.
Maribel is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, an ACE provider, and a certified CLM (Competent Learner Model) coach who utilizes Applied Behavior Analysis to guide all her clients to develop their functional skills and promote generative responding and independence.
Additionally, Maribel enjoys collaborating with other disciplines with common goals. She loves to join the design research team to practice her UX/UI skills while incorporating her expertise. Maribel also loves traveling while providing workshops at the same time. Kenya, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka were some of the countries she visited to conduct training. She also continues to reach out and organize training and seminars for less privileged families, schools, and communities.
Maribel considers herself a visionary who joyfully sees a brighter future. She firmly believes that nothing is impossible when everything is done with love and passion. To empower, encourage, and inspire people, these are some of the things that motivate her to do what she does.
Maribel provides services to organizations, institutions, families, and individuals diagnosed with autism and other developmental disorders, including intervention in the home, community-based, or school setting. She also provides training to those who would like to learn more about Behavior Analysis.
