Compassionate Behavior Insight LLC
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At Compassionate Behavior Insight, we are committed to supporting families through personalized and compassionate ABA services. Hello!
I am Yuri Rivera, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) passionate about helping others through Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). Since 2018, I have been working in the field of ABA in the state of Texas, primarily with children aged 2 to 14. My dedication to this field stems from a deep desire to make a difference in people’s lives, especially those facing behavioral challenges. I firmly believe in the transformative power of ABA to improve the quality of life for those in need. My approach is based on collaboration and open communication, and I have the privilege of serving both English and Spanish-speaking communities in North Texas. I believe that working closely with families, caregivers, and multidisciplinary teams is essential to developing effective interventions and achieving significant progress. Throughout my career, I have learned the importance of continuous education and training. I am committed to sharing my knowledge and experience with other professionals and families through workshops, training sessions, and educational resources.
There are days I watch a family get through, not fix anything, not have a breakthrough, not even have a good day by any normal measure, just get through.
And I leave those visits more moved than I do on the days where something big shifts.
I think it’s because I’ve seen what “getting through” actually costs.
It’s not passive. It’s the parent who kept their voice steady on the fourth request, not just the first.
It’s the sibling who gave up their turn without being asked twice.
It’s everyone in that house doing the quiet, invisible work of not making a hard day harder, and nobody clocking it as work at all.
Nobody claps for days like that. There’s no milestone to mark, no progress note that captures “we made it to bedtime and nobody was alone in it.”
Families tend to walk away from days like that feeling like nothing happened. But I’ve learned to notice them differently than the people living them do.
From where I sit, that’s not a quiet day. That’s the whole thing working, just without the parts that are easy to point to.
If today was one of those, the kind where “fine” is doing a lot of heavy lifting, where nothing photo-worthy happened but everyone made it through intact, I see it. It counts. It was a good day, even if it didn’t feel like one.
08/21/2026
I’ve said those two words in more living rooms than I can count, and I still watch it land every time.
Here’s what’s actually happening: a meltdown isn’t a negotiation.
The brain in that moment isn’t weighing your bribe or clocking your threat, it’s flooded, and it’s scanning for one thing. Safety. Not a solution. Not a reward. Proof that it’s not alone in what it’s feeling.
“I’m here” answers that question directly. It doesn’t ask the child to calm down. It doesn’t try to reason with a brain that temporarily can’t reason.
It just closes the distance, and closing the distance is what actually starts to bring the nervous system back down.
That’s the part bribes and timeouts can’t do, no matter how well-intentioned. They’re aimed at the behavior.
“I’m here” is aimed at the state underneath it.
If you’ve ever frozen mid-meltdown not knowing what to say, this is the one to keep.
Send it to whoever else needs it in their back pocket.
Before I walk in, I sit here for a second.
Just breathe. Squeeze something. Reset.
I used to think that meant I wasn’t ready.
Now I know it means I’m getting ready, on purpose, instead of walking in running on empty.
If you do this too, in your driveway, in the school pickup line, in the parking lot before bedtime, you’re not stalling.
You’re regulating so you can actually show up.
This is the exact kind of thing we work through in the parent cohort, not just what to do in the hard moments, but how to steady yourself first.
Doors are open soon for parent cohort 4 if you’re ready for that support.
Drop a 🚗 if you’ve had this exact moment.
08/20/2026
You know your kid better than any chart or checklist ever will.
You just haven’t been told to trust that yet.
That flicker before the storm?
You’ve probably felt it before without having words for it. A gut sense that something’s off, seconds before it turns into something loud.
That instinct isn’t luck. It’s you, paying attention. The goal isn’t to become a meltdown expert, it’s to start trusting what you already notice.
Tag a parent who could use this reminder today. 👀
08/19/2026
I’ve sat in enough living rooms to know:
You’re not bad at this.
You’re just carrying things that were never meant to fit in the bag.
Guilt that isn’t yours. Pressure that isn’t real. A standard nobody actually meets.
Put it down. There’s room for what actually matters.
Save this for the next hard morning.
There’s a version of calm that gets misunderstood.
People picture it as stillness, nothing moving, nothing hard happening. But that’s not really what steady looks like, on the water or in a living room at 5pm when everyone’s tired.
Steady is staying upright while things are still in motion. It’s not about making the waves stop. It’s about not capsizing while they pass.
That’s most of what I coach parents on, honestly. Not how to stop the storm, how to stay in the boat.
07/19/2026
I didn’t always know how to sit with a hard moment instead of trying to fix it fast.
That took time, and a lot of unlearning what I thought “helping” was supposed to look like.
That’s really what Cohort 3 is for, not more information, but a space to actually practice staying steady, together with other parents doing the same thing.
Starting August 18. Comment “COHORT” and I’ll send you the details.
She was dancing. I was piece by piece, finding where things fit.
Neither of us had to change what we were doing for the other to feel okay.
I think about this a lot with the families I work with, how much pressure there is to make kids match our energy, or to match theirs.
Most of the time, nobody actually has to.
Cohort 3 starts soon. It’s a space to slow down and think differently about the moments that usually make us panic. Comment “COHORT” and I’ll send you the details. 🤍
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