Free replay for BCBAs · Credentialing in weeks, not months when you launch with Alpaca Health · No call required to watch
Free replay · 50 min
Allyssa started her own ABA practice in Dallas and had 16 clients in under a year. She shows how she did it.
Allyssa Minick, BCBA, opened Ivory Behavior Group in July 2025. In this 50-minute conversation with Michael Gao, founder of Alpaca Health, she talks about where her first families came from and how she hired her first BCBA. She also explains how she took a full week off in her first year.
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In 50 minutes you'll know
- Why she leftShe was burned out at a large in-home company and decided to open her own practice with her husband.
- Where the families came fromThe practice reached 16 active clients in under a year, including children with severe behavior that larger clinics would not take.
- How she hiredShe brought on RBTs and student analysts first, then her first BCBA, and trains them herself.
- What surprised herThe practice was profitable by the end of 2025 and she started paying herself a salary in 2026.
"I really don't see myself ever going back to working for someone."
Jakie Canales, BCBA
Decided in December, credentialed by February, seeing clients in March.
Decided in December, credentialed by February, seeing clients in March.
Why now, not next year
Credentialing under Alpaca Health's contracts typically takes weeks, not months. BCBAs who decide this fall can be seeing their own families in the new year. Every month you wait is a month of credentialing you have not started.
Watch the replay and run your numbersBook a free call with MichaelMonth 1
Decide, set up your LLC, and start credentialing with Alpaca Health.
Weeks later
In network with the major insurers under existing contracts.
First families
Jakie started in December and had ten clients by March.
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