ABAshifts exists because the ABA staffing crisis isn't about a shortage of talent — it's about a shortage of schedule compatibility.
The ABA field has a staffing crisis hiding in plain sight. There are 187,000+ certified RBTs in the U.S. and growing demand for services — 1 in 36 children are now diagnosed with autism.
But industry reporting puts RBT turnover as high as 77–103% per year. Companies can't keep their teams. Families wait weeks or months for therapy to start. And in our experience the reason RBTs leave often isn't pay — it's schedule instability.
No single company can guarantee a full week of hours. Cancellations, waitlists, and scheduling conflicts mean the hours RBTs were promised and the hours they get are not always the same. When next week isn't better, they leave.
ABAshifts was founded in 2026 by Rafi Wassner after watching the same story repeat across the ABA field: RBTs who loved the work but could not make the job sustainable. Hours that changed every week. Long drives between sessions. Cancellations nobody was paid for. Good clinicians were leaving the field, and the companies that depended on them were paying to replace them again and again.
A resume and a keyword search cannot tell you the two things that decide whether an ABA job actually works: the weekly schedule and the commute. That is what ABAshifts was built around.
So he built a platform made specifically for ABA. ABAshifts puts the schedule, the drive time and the pay range in front of the clinician first, keeps them anonymous until a company is interested too, and lets the company hire them directly. The goal is simple: help RBTs, BTs and BCBAs find sustainable work in ABA, and help the companies that depend on them keep good people. ABAshifts is built to support ABA companies, not compete with them.
ABAshifts is an ABA job-matching platform. ABA companies post full-time and part-time jobs with their regular weekly schedules. RBTs, BTs and BCBAs browse anonymously — matched on schedule fit first, with full credentials and resumes in view post-match — and the company hires them directly. Free for therapists; free for companies during beta. Live in 17 states.
We're not a job board. We're not a staffing agency. We're a job-matching platform purpose-built for the ABA field, where schedule is everything and the wrong hire is expensive. The company hires the clinician directly — we're never the employer.
Schedule fit is the top matching factor, so the strongest fits surface first — and you spend less time on interviews that go nowhere.
Anonymous until mutual interest. RBTs browse without exposing their identity to current or potential employers.
Built for this field — BACB credentials, supervision hours, service types, practice management tools.
Built to support ABA companies, not compete with them. We help your team find a mutual fit, and the company hires directly.
$7.97B
U.S. ABA market (industry estimates, 2025)
187K+
Certified RBTs (BACB)
103K+
Open BCBA positions (industry reports)
1 in 36
Children diagnosed (CDC)