Emergent Learning Centers Santa Maria serves families throughout the Santa Maria Valley with home-based ABA services and live telehealth, guided by a belief that runs through everything we do: great therapy should meet your child where life actually happens. Our clinicians bring the same science, the same expertise, and the same structured programming found in our physical centers directly into your living room, to your kitchen table, or onto your screen. Teaching at home means skills are learned in the exact places your child will use them, with caregivers participating in every session rather than watching from a waiting room, and telehealth keeps care within reach for busy households and outlying communities where travel gets in the way, supported by parent coaching and clinician oversight that research shows works effectively at a distance.

Santa Maria families are also part of something larger on the Central Coast. Our services here operate as one local network with our nearby Lompoc center, sharing staff, clinical talent, and treatment options across both communities, so the full range of Central Coast expertise stands behind every Santa Maria case. That network opens real choices for families: the BCBAs and RBTs serving your home sessions are the same trusted team working in Lompoc's nature-infused, deeply ACT-based programs, and some families choose to commute for occasional center-based sessions there to complement their home services. Even better news is on the way: a dedicated Santa Maria center is in the works and opening soon, bringing center-based care to the valley itself while home and telehealth services continue without interruption. Whichever setting fits your family, the standard is identical: treatment designed by scientists, delivered by experts, dosed by what the data supports, and aimed at helping your child need us less over time.

Highlights of Our Santa Maria Location:

• Home-based ABA therapy taught where skills are actually used, with caregivers in every session

• Live telehealth with parent coaching and full clinician oversight for families across the valley

• One local network with our Lompoc center, sharing staff, clinical talent, and treatment options across the Central Coast

• Optional center-based sessions at Lompoc for families who want them

• The same science, clinicians, and structured programming found in every Emergent center

• A dedicated Santa Maria center in the works and opening soon