Taylor Pearce, M.A., BCBA is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with a wide range of experience working in the fields of special education, supported living services and Applied Behavior Analysis. Taylor has been working with children, adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities since 2005 when she started her career as a special education teacher at a non-profit school in Whittier, CA. Through her experience as a teacher she discovered her passion for fostering positive changes in the mental and behavioral health of the individual, as well as the family.

     In 2006, Taylor graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Child and Adolescent Development from California State University, Fullerton and went on to earn a Master’s degree in Human Behavior from National University, San Diego. She has worked at Optimum Behavioral Health since its beginning in 2009, first as a direct service provider followed by her role as Primary Supervisor and currently holds the title of Director of Programming. In her role as Director at OBH she functions in a variety of areas including hiring and training of direct service providers, conducting functional behavioral assessments, behavioral consultation, early intervention, development and ongoing oversight of behavior analytic programming as well as RBT/ BCBA supervision.

     She has been in integral part of Optimum Behavioral Health since 2009 and continues to serve the San Diego community with compassion and pride for the work she is doing. Taylor is described by her co-workers as hard-working, patient and always willing to go the extra mile for others.