Environment shapes behavior. We shape the environment.
Environment shapes behavior. We shape the environment.
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At LocusBx Behavioral Consulting, we help families and individuals understand the environments shaping behavior — and redesign them, together. Because when the environment changes, behavior follows.
At LocusBx Behavioral Consulting, we help families and individuals understand the environments shaping behavior — and redesign them, together. Because when the environment changes, behavior follows.
Meet Roma
Meet Roma
Roma G. Velasco is LocusBx's founder and your Behavior Analyst who delivers trauma-informed, assent-based behavior support for children, teens, and adults. Serving families and individuals in Colorado in person, and telehealth clients nationwide.
Languages: English, Tagalog, and (learning) American Sign Language (ASL)
About Us
About Us
LocusBx is a behavioral science practice founded on a single conviction: behavior makes sense when you study its environment. Rooted in applied behavior analysis and informed by environmental psychology and human performance psychology, we work at the intersection of science and environment by identifying the precise conditions that evoke and maintain behavior, and redesigning them with rigor, intention, and care. Our approach is not about fixing people. It is about finding the locus — the exact point where environmental change produces meaningful, lasting behavioral outcomes.
Led by clinicians, LocusBx serves individuals and families ready to redesign the conditions around them. Whether the environment is a classroom, a clinic, a grocery store, or a living room, we bring the same scientific discipline to every engagement. Environment shapes behavior. We shape the environment.
Our Approach
Our Approach
We don't change people. We change environments.
We don't change people. We change environments.
Every behavior serves a purpose. Our job is to understand that purpose, then build an environment that makes it possible to meet the same need in a way that works for everyone.
Assent and autonomy, not compliance.
Assent and autonomy, not compliance.
Support is built around the person's actual interests and preferences. That means offering structured and real choices, following genuine willingness, and adjusting as those preferences change.
You're part of the team.
You're part of the team.
The people who know you or your child best are already part of the team. We collaborate with families, educators, and other service providers, not just consult with them, because lasting change only holds when the people showing up every day can carry it forward.
Evidence-based, not assumptions.
Evidence-based, not assumptions.
Every recommendation is rooted in peer-reviewed research and grounded in behavioral science, held to BACB ethical standards. You deserve to know exactly why we're suggesting what we are.
K.I.S.S. Keep it Simple and Significant.
K.I.S.S. Keep it Simple and Significant.
The most effective strategies are often the easiest to implement. We work with families and clients to build values-based behavioral goals; ones that fit real life, not just a treatment binder.
The hard moments make sense when you know what to look for
The hard moments make sense when you know what to look for
You're here because the environment around them — the routines, the transitions, the expectations, the spaces — isn't set up in a way that works for them yet. That's something we can change.
LocusBx is a behavioral science practice built on one core idea: behavior is a response to environment. When we understand what's driving the hard moments, we can redesign the conditions around them; at home, at school, and in daily life.
This is science-backed, deeply individualized support. Not a program your family gets fitted into. A process built around the specific way your child or loved one moves through the world.
Our Services
Our Services
Pediatric Behavior Supports | Adult Behavior Supports | Parent Coaching | Performance Coaching | Behavior Counseling | PRN
Pediatric Behavior Supports | Adult Behavior Supports | Parent Coaching | Performance Coaching | Behavior Counseling | PRN
Every engagement begins with understanding your family's situation, your goals, and what the environment is actually doing. Services are shaped around that, not the other way around.
Whether it's emotional dysregulation at pickup, disengagement from academic demands, disrupted sleep routines, or a teenager who's withdrawn from connection — the behavior is communicating something about the environment. We help you find it.
Behavioral Consultation & ABA Services
Behavioral Consultation & ABA Services
If a child, family member, or client is showing behavior that feels unmanageable or confusing — we find out why it's happening, not just what to do about it. We assess the full environment and design an intervention plan built around that specific person and context.
Parent & Family Coaching
Parent & Family Coaching
Parenting is hard. It becomes more manageable when you understand the environment shaping your child's behavior, and know how to change it. We equip caregivers with the tools to reduce interfering behaviors, support development, and strengthen the parent-child relationship.
Independent & Adaptive Living Supports
Independent & Adaptive Living Supports
The goal isn't a checklist; it's capability. We build the environmental supports and skill pathways that make daily living routines sustainable, dignified, and genuinely owned by the person doing them. From morning routines to community navigation, we design conditions where independence isn't demanded, it's made possible.
Together, We Build...
Together, We Build...
Meeting You and Your Family Where You Are
Meeting You and Your Family Where You Are
Every stage of development calls for a different environment. Behavior looks different at every age, and so does the environment that shapes it. Here's how our support shows up across the lifespan.
The support you need is here
The support you need is here
You don't have to have it all figured out before you reach out. Tell us what's been hard — we'll help you understand what the environment is doing, and what we can change together.
Our Process
Our Process
Effective behavior support requires a systems-level view. Our process is designed to be genuinely collaborative at every stage — with families, caregivers, educators, and other service providers who share a stake in the outcome. We don't operate in isolation, and we don't hand off a plan and disappear. We build alongside the people who show up every day, because sustainable change depends on the whole environment, not just the hour we're in it.
Every behavior serves a purpose. The four functions, Attention, Access/Tangible, Avoidance/Escape, and Automatic, are the framework we use to understand why behavior occurs and what in the environment is maintaining it. Before we design an intervention, we ask: what is this behavior doing for this person, and what conditions are making it work? That question leads us to the environment. That's where change begins.
Reference: Carr, E.G. (1994), EMERGING THEMES IN THE FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF PROBLEM BEHAVIOR. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 27: 393-399. https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1994.27-393
Need support beyond behavioral services?
Need support beyond behavioral services?
We recognize that behavior doesn't exist in isolation, and neither should care. When a client's needs extend beyond our scope, we draw on a trusted network of professionals who share our commitment to dignity, evidence, and systemic thinking. We don't hand off. We collaborate.
Our Team
Our Team
Roma G. Velasco, MA, BCBA, LBA
Roma G. Velasco, MA, BCBA, LBA
Roma is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst whose academic training spans a Bachelor of Science in Psychology through a Master of Arts in Human Performance Psychology from Regis University and a Graduate Certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis from the Florida Institute of Technology. She started LocusBx on the belief that behavior support, whether for a child, a team, or an individual, is only as effective as the relationship and environment behind it.
Her path to this work spans more than fifteen years across early childhood education, residential memory care for adults, community supportive housing, organizational development, and clinical practice. Each chapter deepened her conviction that lasting change begins with context, not correction, and that the right environment makes the desired behavior possible.
Roma's clinical work is grounded in trauma-informed, assent-based ABA, informed by Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT), Relational Frame Theory (RFT), Motivational Interviewing, and Non-Violent Communication. These are the frameworks through which Roma understands behavior, builds therapeutic relationships, and supports meaningful change across the lifespan. It means clients and caregivers are active participants at every stage, from goal-setting to intervention design. And that the "why" behind behavior is always explored before the "what."
Learn more about Roma!
Sky Tala
Sky Tala
Chief Snack Officer
Kiss enthusiast | Equal-opportunity eater | People-centered
Sky lives by one guiding principle: say yes. Yes to snacks. Yes to kisses. Yes to every human, animal, and child who crosses her path. She is the practice's warmest welcome committee and has never once turned down an offered treat — she considers this her most consistent therapeutic accomplishment.
Night Taraki
Night Taraki
Chief of Gentleman Operations
Cuddle specialist | Certified leg warmer | Athlete
Night takes his name seriously — he is, in fact, diligent, handsome, and relentlessly helpful, especially when that helpfulness involves draping himself across a willing lap. A gifted swimmer and champion jumper, he brings the same wholehearted enthusiasm to sport as he does to snuggles. Fully bilingual in cuddle.
Top Skills: Night and Sky can identify their written names, identify ASL for numbers and alphabet. They respond to vocal and gestural prompts for sit, stand, down, shake, high-five, wait, up, look, turn, beso, and "mano-po".
You don't have to have it all figured out to reach out.
You don't have to have it all figured out to reach out.
Start with a conversation. Tell us what's been hard. We'll help you figure out where the environment might be part of the story, and what we can do about it together.
It takes less than 10 minutes.
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