Meet Our Team
Board Certified Behavior Analysts, therapists and staff serving families across Florida with compassionate, evidence-based care.
Aisha Albright-Jourdan, MSW, LCSW, BCBA
Founder & Clinical Director
Palm Beach, Broward, Polk and Hillsborough counties
Aisha brings more than 15 years of interdisciplinary clinical work, combining training in neurobiology, mental health therapy and assent-based ABA, with clients from age 1 to 50. Drawing on her years as an educator and mental health clinician in Palm Beach County schools, she specializes in co-occurring presentations such as ADHD, OCD and ODD, and in support for adults on the autism spectrum.
Alongside pediatric school-based behavioral services, Aisha provides trauma-informed counseling for individuals, couples and families across Palm Beach, Broward, Polk and Hillsborough counties.
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Towhid Nishat, M.Ed., BCBA
Assistant Clinical Director
West Palm Beach & Tampa Bengali, Hindi (conversational)
Towhid holds a Master’s in Exceptional Student Education with a concentration in Applied Behavior Analysis from the University of West Florida, along with an advanced degree in mental health counseling. He brings years of prior RBT experience and a background in the Palm Beach County School District.
He specializes in trauma-informed care, IEP advocacy for parents and compassionate potty training. Fluent in Bengali and conversational in Hindi, he delivers culturally attuned ABA therapy across West Palm Beach, Tampa and surrounding Florida school districts.
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Lianet Ortega, M.Ed., BCBA
Board Certified Behavior Analyst
West Palm Beach, Treasure Coast, Orlando & Jacksonville Spanish
Lianet earned her Master’s in Exceptional Student Education and Applied Behavior Analysis from the University of West Florida after three years as an RBT. Bilingual in English and Spanish, she focuses on hands-on mentoring of therapists, programming for adolescents, and seizure management within ABA therapy.
She supports neurodiverse children and families navigating co-occurring diagnoses across West Palm Beach, the Treasure Coast, Orlando and Jacksonville.
Elijah Albright, MA, BCBA
Lead BCBA
Tampa, Polk County & Charlotte County
Elijah holds a Master of Arts in Special Education with an ABA concentration from Arizona State University and brings more than three years of frontline RBT experience to his supervisory role.
Serving families across Tampa, Polk County and Charlotte County, he specializes in center-based therapy for school-aged children, de-escalating meltdowns and guiding parents through the IEP process, so support carries over from the clinic to approved public school classrooms.
Maria Davydova, BCaBA
Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst
Palm Beach County Russian
Maria has more than nine years of behavioral health experience and is pursuing her full BCBA credential. Fluent in Russian and attuned to diverse family cultures, she specializes in functional communication training for non-verbal learners, toilet training and reducing high-frequency behaviors.
She also writes individualized intervention plans for children with co-occurring conditions, including Down syndrome and developmental delays.
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Orlando Calderin, RBT
Student Analyst
Broward, Miami-Dade & Palm Beach counties Spanish
Orlando brings more than six years of ABA leadership and clinical operations experience and is completing his pathway to BCBA certification. Bilingual in English and Spanish, he specializes in behavior support and skill building for teens.
He connects client motivation, family collaboration and structured positive reinforcement at home, in the clinic and at school.
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Ellen Meizel, MA, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathology Clinic Lead
South Florida
Ellen is a speech-language pathologist with more than 30 years of clinical experience. She holds a Master of Arts from New York University and has been a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) since 1987.
Her experience covers oral motor development, pediatric feeding and swallowing disorders, videofluoroscopy evaluations, accent modification and speech conditions associated with autism. Ellen will lead speech evaluations and treatment plans coordinated with each child’s behavior plan when speech therapy opens at Hope Center in January 2027.
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Frances Maxwell-Baxter, LMHC
Lead Mental Health Therapist & Parent Advocate
Palm Beach County
Frances brings more than three decades of experience in therapy, forensic mental health and social work, with EMDR trauma certification and years as an ESE coordinator and guidance counselor in Palm Beach County schools.
She provides evidence-based psychotherapy for anxiety, depression and PTSD, helping children, teens and adults build emotional resilience and self-advocacy skills, and she guides families through the 504 and IEP process to secure classroom accommodations.
Tahlia Joseph
Operations Manager & Intake Director
Practice-wide
Tahlia is a PhD candidate at Nova Southeastern University and oversees practice operations, family onboarding and client service coordination. Having worked as a Registered Behavior Technician for several years, she understands what families face when they begin behavioral health services.
Tahlia keeps intake simple and caring, matching each child with the right therapy team and insurance pathway from the first call.
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At Hope Center for Behavior Change our ABA programs are developed by Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) and implemented by Registered Behavior Technicians.