About our Founders

Behavioral clarity does not come from theory alone. It comes from lived experience, hard conversations, and years spent inside complex systems where real people are struggling.

Brown’s Behavioral Consulting was founded by Christian R. Brown and his wife, Taylor B. Brown, to help families and organizations move beyond surface strategies and into meaningful, lasting change. Together, they built this work for parents, caregivers, and professionals who feel trapped in cycles of escalation, burnout, and uncertainty, and who are ready for deeper understanding and practical solutions that translate into real life.

Christian and Taylor did not arrive at this work from a distance. They worked side by side on the front lines of youth care and behavioral support. They lived with and supported some of the highest-risk and most complex youth in the country through their support home, walking alongside young people who had experienced repeated placement breakdowns, failed psychiatric admissions, and years of unsuccessful interventions. These were youth who had exhausted every available system. Youth who had been labeled unmanageable, chronic, or lifelong residents of care.

There was nothing that worked for them.

They witnessed firsthand how traditional approaches focused on controlling behavior instead of understanding it. Crises were managed, but rarely resolved. Interventions addressed symptoms while root causes remained untouched. They watched families exhaust every available resource. They watched staff burn out. They watched youth move from placement to placement, accumulating diagnoses and labels instead of meaningful support. Again and again, they saw people doing their best inside systems that simply were not built to produce lasting change.

Those experiences shaped everything that followed.

Christian did not set out to create another program or add one more framework to an already crowded field. What began as professional frustration became deeply personal. He wanted to understand why behavior support systems were failing so many people, and more importantly, what it would take to build something that truly worked for those who had already tried everything else.

Rather than accepting the limits of existing models, Christian began studying behavioral patterns across hundreds of real cases. Together, he and Taylor examined emotional drivers, environmental pressures, caregiver responses, and institutional structures. They paid close attention to what helped and what consistently made things worse. Over time, clear patterns emerged. Behavior was being treated in isolation, disconnected from relationship, context, and motivation. Support systems were reactive instead of relational. Intervention plans were fragmented instead of integrated.

So they began building something different.

Instead of creating disconnected tools, Christian developed a complete behavioral system grounded in real-world application. A system that starts with human connection, moves into behavioral understanding, and leads to structured intervention. A system designed not just to stabilize crises, but to transform them. A system built specifically for the cases traditional approaches cannot solve.

Taylor joined this work not only as a co-founder, but as an essential force behind how this mission reaches families and professionals. Together, they shaped Brown’s Behavioral Consulting into more than a consulting practice. They built it as a bridge between lived experience and practical application, between overwhelmed systems and sustainable care. Their partnership blends frontline insight with communication, education, and advocacy, ensuring the work remains both deeply human and broadly accessible.

That work became the foundation of Brown’s Behavioral Consulting.

Today, Christian and Taylor remain committed to the same mission: repairing what is broken in behavior support systems by replacing control with clarity, reaction with understanding, and short-term management with sustainable change. Their work is dedicated to families who feel out of options, professionals carrying impossible caseloads, and individuals whose behavior has been misunderstood for far too long.

Because behavior is never random.

And when it is truly understood, change becomes possible.

The work of Brown’s Behavioral Consulting is not measured in credentials, certifications, or theory. It is measured in people and in outcomes that once felt impossible.

Over the years, we have worked with families and agencies who came to us after every other option had been exhausted. Many of the youth we supported had experienced ten, fifteen, even twenty-five placement breakdowns. Some had been through repeated psychiatric admissions that never addressed what was happening beneath the surface. Nearly all had endured countless intervention plans focused on managing behavior rather than understanding it. Several were labeled “lifers” in group care settings. They had watched hundreds of staff rotate through their lives. They had been described as chronic, resistant, unmanageable, or beyond help. In many systems, they were the cases people quietly stopped believing in.

Through the Integrated Dialogic Behavioral System (IDBS), developed and led by Christian R. Brown alongside Taylor B. Brown, we approached these situations differently. Instead of leading with control, we led with understanding. Instead of escalating consequences, we slowed everything down. We worked collaboratively to uncover foundational emotional drivers, environmental pressures, and relational patterns that had gone unseen for years. We helped youth build regulation and life skills, supported families in reshaping dynamics, and guided professional teams toward structured, consistent intervention grounded in clarity rather than reaction.

And over time, things began to change.

Youth who had cycled endlessly through placements returned home. Young people who had disengaged from school found their way back into classrooms. Crisis moments became less frequent. Stability slowly replaced survival. Families began to breathe again. 

Long after services concluded, we continued to hear from them. We received calls and letters from former clients sharing milestones that once felt unimaginable. Youth enrolling in university. Young adults moving into their own apartments. Individuals starting careers, building relationships, and living independently after being told for years that this kind of life was unrealistic. These were the same individuals who had been described as permanent residents of care or lifelong system dependents. Watching them build meaningful, self-directed lives remains the clearest evidence that a different approach works.

This is why Brown’s Behavioral Consulting exists.

It exists for families who feel they are out of options. For professionals who are exhausted from managing constant crises. For individuals whose behavior has been misunderstood for years. The goal has never been temporary compliance or short-term stabilization.

The goal is lasting, internalized change.

Change that allows people to regulate, connect, and build independent lives. Change rooted in understanding rather than control. Change that honors the reality that behavior is never random. It reflects lived experience, environment, and unmet needs. When those factors are truly understood and addressed with structure, compassion, and consistency, transformation becomes possible.