Trish Schnabel

Trish Schnabel is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed and Board Certified Behavior Analyst (LBA, BCBA). With expertise in both areas, she supports children, teens, and adults facing mental health concerns, executive functioning challenges, and needs related to the autism spectrum. Her work focuses on emotional well-being while helping clients strengthen behavioral skills for communication, coping, and everyday routines. She has more than 25 years of experience working with individuals on the autism spectrum, and her counseling background includes depression, anxiety, life stressors, military families, codependency, and ADD/ADHD. She currently provides individual, group, and family therapy for clients dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship issues, and executive functioning difficulties. She combines counseling approaches with evidence-based behavioral strategies, conducts clinical assessments, and develops treatment plans tailored to each client’s goals. She collaborates with other professionals to support comprehensive care and has led workshops on autism, executive functioning, stress management, and practical coping skills. Her dual training in counseling and behavior analysis helps her work effectively with both neurotypical and neurodivergent clients. Since 2010, Trish has also operated an ABA company offering therapeutic consultation for adults on the autism spectrum and individuals with developmental disabilities. Her responsibilities included interviewing families and clients, observing daily routines, reviewing current supports, and identifying areas that needed adjustment. She created consultation and behavior support plans and provided training for caregivers, group home staff, and parents. She also offered one-on-one ABA therapy for children with autism, conducted behavioral assessments, recommended strategies for behavior change, implemented interventions, and supervised BCBA candidates and RBTs. As a military spouse, she has volunteered for 20 years supporting military families and veterans through deployments, relocations, separations, and challenges involving combat stress and PTSD. She served on a state committee focused on reducing educational barriers for military children and received both the Shield of Sparta and the Commander’s Award for Public Service. Her community involvement also includes helping establish sensory-friendly movie showings that became a valued local program. Her education includes a psychology degree from George Mason University, a Master of Education in Community Agency Counseling from Auburn University, and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst Graduate Certification from Pennsylvania State University. She appeared on “Wheel of Fortune” in January 2020, winning $65,495 and a trip to Italy. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, concerts, time with loved ones, walking her Labrador Retrievers, and watching SEC football. These experiences continue to shape Trish Schnabel's meaningful journey.