Most BCBA supervision experiences are focused on one thing: completing hours. Supervision at Bierman is built for something more. This is a teaching hospital for pediatric therapy, and that means your fieldwork is structured, coached, and connected to the clinical skills you’ll use every day as a practicing BCBA.
From the first meeting, supervision here is structured around you. Your primary supervisor designs sessions around your specific learning objectives, tracks your progress against a BACB-aligned curriculum, and provides real-time feedback through onsite client observations. You won’t be handed a tracker and told to check in monthly.
Typically split into two 1:1 meetings each month, designed around your specific learning objectives and BACB requirements.
Small cohorts of 2 to 10 trainees, with a single focused topic for the full quarter — structured discussion, not scattered check-ins.
Conducted in the room with real-time supervisor feedback. You'll know exactly what's working and what to adjust, not weeks later.
Terms and concepts assigned in advance, reviewed through conversation and demonstrated application — not just written tests.
Your Supervision Skills Progress Tracker and Fieldwork Hours Tracker are kept current throughout your entire supervision period, so you always know exactly where you stand toward certification.
Supervision delivered from a distance is supervision at a remove. The feedback loop is slower, the learning is thinner, and the relationship between supervisor and trainee is harder to build. At Bierman, 87% of clinical supervision is delivered in-center, which means you’re learning in an environment where real oversight is constant, not remote.
That matters because clinical judgment isn’t built by reading about cases. It’s built by working through them in real time, with someone who can see what you’re seeing and help you decide what to do next.
For employees who accrued at least 50% of their supervised hours at Bierman.
The supervision curriculum at Bierman covers the BACB task list and the skills required for BCBAs working with young learners in applied settings. Topics are organized by terminology, discussion, and application, because knowing a definition and being able to use a skill with a client are two very different things.
Completing fieldwork at Bierman isn’t a detour on the way to a BCBA career. It’s the start of one. 90% of Clinical Directors at Bierman were promoted from internal BCBAs, and 150 team members were promoted internally in 2025 alone.
The path from trainee to clinician to clinical leader is a real one here, supported by Bierman University, our internal learning and development system, and PROPEL, our career advancement program.
Talent development is one of the four strategic pillars that define how Bierman operates. This isn’t a supervision program that exists in a corner of the organization. It’s central to how Bierman delivers consistent outcomes at scale and develops the next generation of clinical leaders.
Bierman operates like a teaching hospital for pediatric therapy, with a dual mission running in parallel: exceptional outcomes for every child served, and exceptional development for every clinician trained here. Your growth is built into the model.
Through PEBBL, our Progress through Evidence-Based Behavior Lab, clinicians at Bierman can take what happens in daily sessions and turn it into structured inquiry that improves care over time. It’s how we keep getting better as an organization, and it’s one more reason supervision here is worth taking seriously.
Bierman provides Supervised Fieldwork for BCBA and BCaBA candidates under the BACB’s Supervised Fieldwork track. Supervision includes structured individual meetings, group supervision, onsite client observations, and a curriculum aligned to the BACB task list.
You’ll receive a minimum of 3 hours of individual supervision and 3 hours of group supervision per month. Individual supervision is paid and typically split into two 1:1 sessions per month. Client observations are conducted at a minimum once per month.
Under the Supervised Fieldwork track, candidates complete 2,000 hours within 5 years. Most trainees accrue between 20 and 130 hours per supervisory period (or up to 160 hours for those applying to the BACB on or after January 1, 2027).
For employees who accrued at least 50% of their supervised hours at Bierman, the BCBA exam pass rate was 85% in 2025. External candidates who completed supervision elsewhere had a 50% pass rate in 2025.
Yes. Supervision at Bierman is available to current employees. If you’re not yet part of the team, explore open roles at biermancareers.com and apply for a position first. The supervision program is one of the many ways Bierman invests in its clinical staff.
Two tools track your experience: the Fieldwork Hours Tracker, which you update daily as fieldwork occurs, and the Supervision Skills Progress Tracker, which your primary supervisor updates at each meeting as you demonstrate mastery of the curriculum. Both are maintained throughout your experience.
The Director of Supervision manages all supervisor transitions and ensures continuity of your experience. A new primary supervisor is assigned, and a transition meeting is held to review your progress and create a plan for continuing your supervision without interruption.
Yes. Through PEBBL, Bierman’s practice-embedded research initiative, trainees are exposed to how real clinical work translates into structured inquiry and improved practice. Some trainees take on more formal roles in PEBBL as they progress.
The supervision program is led by the Director of Supervision, who reviews all applications, manages supervisor assignments, oversees documentation, and collaborates with Clinical Directors across locations to maintain program quality.
