Lisa Kota

Lisa Kota, MADS, BCBA, RBA (Ont) is a Clinical Supervisor and is a Clinical Manager at AlphaBee. She became a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst in 2013. Lisa’s mission is to empower clients and caregivers and to show them what is possible for them in a joyful respectful way. Lisa has received additional training and holds the FTF Behavioral Consulting Level 4 credential for lead implementation in the practical functional assessment and skill-based treatment of severe problem behaviour. Lisa is also trained and certified in Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions as a JASPER implementer, a JASPER caregiver coach, a JASPER local trainer, and an Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) therapist. Lisa’s ABA career began in 2005, and has encompassed teaching with a Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT) approach, teaching with a Verbal Behaviour approach, teaching with high engagement during JASPER play routines, and increasing generalization and advanced language skills using the EBIC (degli Espinosa, 2011). Lisa has also been a member of the Seneca College Professional Advisory Committee (PAC) since 2014, and was co-chair of the committee from September 2016 to July 2018. She has written several articles for the Autism Matters magazine, and an article for the Autism Advocate. Lisa enjoys sharing AlphaBee’s teaching procedures through workshops, conference presentations, and on our alphabeePRO training platform.