PPractice Growth Co
ABA Therapy Marketing

ABA therapy marketing that connects families with your available care.

Practice Growth Co helps ABA providers reach families who fit their services, locations, and available capacity. We connect search, practice information, advertising, and intake around enrollment and a clearer experience for parents and caregivers. For new practices, established teams, and practices adding providers, services, or locations.

Parent decision journey

Five emotional stages from diagnosis to enrollment

Family-led

  • 01

    Diagnosis

    "What do we do now?"

  • 02

    Research

    "Who can actually help?"

  • 03

    Trust validation

    "Can I trust them with my child?"

  • 04

    Consultation

    "This feels right."

  • 05

    Enrollment

    "We're ready to start."

Trust earned at every step

The work in practice

See the work and results behind our approach.

Explore the engagement below to see what changed, what was measured, and how the work supported the practice's goals.

ABA Therapy · Digital Patient Acquisition

United States

How an ABA therapy clinic replaced referral dependency with a system that produced 120+ leads in 90 days.

Qualified Leads
120+
Cost Per Lead
$28
Monthly Family Intakes
25-30

Michigan ABA clinic that had relied almost entirely on referrals, measured at 90 days across Google Ads, Meta Ads, a website refresh, and CRM and call tracking; 120+ counts qualified leads, not enrolled families.

Read the case study

The Specialty

Make the next step clear for the family and manageable for your team.

A family may be trying to understand services, insurance, age ranges, scheduling, and how long it could take to begin. They are also deciding who they trust with their child's long-term care, weighing communication, compassion, staffing quality, and the clinic environment. A vague invitation to call can leave those questions unanswered and create extra work on both sides.

We help make your offering and intake pathway clear so families can evaluate the practice and your team can receive more useful inquiries. Marketing should reflect actual service availability and the ability to begin care.

What We Focus On

A plan around the opportunities that matter to your practice.

Family-centered discovery

Use clear information about the children and families served, the care setting, and locations. Search campaigns follow what parents search after a diagnosis, including what therapy looks like and waitlist status.

Insurance and intake clarity

Explain the practice's actual coverage and intake steps so families understand what information is needed next. Coverage belongs in ads and pages, and we treat intake as a marketing function so families are not lost during authorization.

Clinician and team credibility

Show the qualifications, approach, and practical experience that help families evaluate the provider. For ABA parents, that means BCBA credentials and supervisor ratios, autism-specific experience, parent communication, and reviews from other parents.

Enrollment and capacity

Align campaigns with openings, staffing, locations, and the practice's ability to move families through intake. Multi-location groups get location-targeted campaigns with centralized reporting.

Family Confidence

From diagnosis to enrolled ABA patient.

The biggest acquisition challenge in ABA therapy is not generating awareness. It's helping families feel confident enough to move forward.

From diagnosis to enrolled patient

Confidence built at every step

Sequenced

  • 01

    Discovery

    Family encounters diagnosis and starts learning about ABA.

  • 02

    Research

    Parents compare clinics, BCBA credentials, insurance coverage, and timelines.

  • 03

    Trust validation

    Reviews, communication tone, supervisor ratios, and warmth all reinforce safety.

  • 04

    Consultation

    Intake and first contact set the tone for the entire family relationship.

  • 05

    Enrollment

    Authorization complete, schedule confirmed, family begins care with confidence.

Family confidence is the conversion event

Our priority: appropriate enrollments and families beginning services. Intermediate measures explain the path; they do not replace the business outcome.

One strategy for your practice. Room to do the work.

We work month to month on a flat retainer, with one strategy built around your practice. When a campaign needs a new message, a landing page needs another test, or the offer needs to change, that is part of improving the work, not another hourly invoice.

Your advertising accounts stay in your name. Your proposal explains the agency retainer and advertising spend separately, along with the priorities we are taking responsibility for.

FAQs

Questions about ABA therapy marketing.

The plan should reflect where you have capacity or expect it to open. It may focus on a specific location or service rather than adding demand to an already constrained part of the practice. If you are filling selectively, for example by age, diagnosis, or insurance, campaigns can target that profile. We don't recommend aggressive marketing to practices that don't have the capacity to responsibly serve the leads they generate.

We use the practice's actual coverage information and explain the next verification step. Clear wording helps families understand the process without treating initial marketing contact as a coverage determination. We build that information into ads, landing pages, and intake so parents can self-qualify before they call.

Yes. Each center's service availability and intake path should be clear, with reporting that shows where families are reaching out and enrolling. Campaign structures allow location-level control while keeping the brand consistent, and each location's Google Business Profile, local SEO, and review program are managed on their own.

We look beyond inquiry counts to appropriate family inquiries, completed intake steps, enrollment, and starts of care where those records are available. That keeps the focus on families receiving services. Along the way we track cost per qualified family inquiry, inquiry-to-intake-start conversion rate, time from inquiry to first appointment, and capacity utilization, by location for multi-location groups. In our ABA clinic case study, call and form tracking with intake disposition in the CRM showed lead sources for the first time, and at 90 days new family intakes held at 25 to 30 a month after being unpredictable.

Yes. We can start with positioning and launch priorities or improve an existing program around new services, providers, or locations. An established advertising account or years of data are not prerequisites for the conversation. The clinic in our ABA case study had never run Google Ads or Meta Ads and had no source tracking; within 90 days it had 120+ qualified leads at a $28 cost per lead (leads, not enrolled families).

Through search campaigns targeting what parents search after a diagnosis ("ABA therapy near me," "autism therapy [city]") and educational content that appears when parents are in the research phase. We don't use autism-condition targeting on social media platforms. We use geographic, demographic, and contextual signals that reach the right parent population without the privacy concerns of diagnostic targeting.

In our experience, it splits roughly evenly between two issues: not enough qualified inquiries (a marketing problem) and too many inquiries that fall off before starting services (an intake problem). Before investing in more lead generation, it's worth understanding which problem you actually have. We audit both and address the highest-leverage gap first.

Your next stage of growth

Build a clearer path from a family's first question to starting care.

Tell us what you want to grow, what is already in place, and where you need help. We'll discuss the priorities and whether Practice Growth Co is the right team for the work.