Committed to Changing Lifes & Improving Outcomes.
The Key Connections© model was developed by Don Martel; LABA, LMHC, LMFT following decades of clinical experience working with individuals in the USA and overseas. Our approach requires changing how we think about behavior addressing behavior problems as skill deficits and viewing them as teaching opportunities.
Licensed in Applied Behavior Analysis {LABA # 105}, Mental Health {LMHC # 3253}, and Marriage & Family Therapy {LMFT # 845}, Don also trained in DBT at the Linehan Institute and is skilled in Motivational Interviewing. Having worked extensively in the US and overseas helping families, caregivers, educators, and policymakers rethink their approach to supporting people living with behavioral or mental health challenges, Don has now gathered an extraordinary team to serve Boston and northeast Massachusetts. As the NECA team has grown in scope and commitment, the collective wisdom of our team has been the single most important aspect of developing the tools and abilities to support individuals within our care structure. Without constant support and cooperation integrated care strategies invariably fall by the side.
Don Martel - President, NECA | Deb LLoyd - COO, NECA | Jon Kessler - Clinical Director
In the late 1990’s, Don worked with the Romanian orphanage crisis during Romania’s foster care system development. This experience helped him to understand the effects of trauma on the brain and shaped his thinking about behavior change practices for the past twenty-years. The Key Connection model is the result of those efforts and the discovery of a new way to treat challenging behavior based on a trauma-informed perspective and creating a new pivot point of change.
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