Our people

Kassie is an Occupational Therapist and Founder/CEO of Greenhouse Pediatric Therapy in Oklahoma. She is a proud graduate of Oklahoma State University and Texas Woman’s University, with a BS in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy. Kassie has been practicing as an OT across Oklahoma for over 20 years, dedicating most of her career to pediatrics.

Kassie founded Greenhouse Pediatric Therapy in 2014, creating a unique setting that merged her favorite parts of early intervention and outpatient pediatric settings: a focus on caregiver participation and education of early intervention, integrated with the therapy intensity and fun toys of the outpatient clinic. Greenhouse is a specialty clinic with a focus on social-emotional development, primarily serving children on the Autism spectrum and/or with a trauma history. Kassie enjoys playing with kiddos, caregiver coaching, program development, and hosting special events for clients. The best part of her job is providing hope to families.

Kassie began formal DIR® training in 2017 through Profectum and immediately began to transition Greenhouse into a DIR-focused clinic. She discovered a love of teaching the same year, and began lecturing at local therapy programs and teaching professional courses. Kassie has taught multiple CEU courses in the areas of Play, Sensory Processing, Behavior, Trauma, and Feeding. She guest lectured at several annual Oklahoma Occupational Therapy Association Conferences and the inaugural Eastern Oklahoma Autism Conference. She provides caregiver training courses and serves as a consultant to local clinics and organizations for staff training on infant/toddler development, DIR®, regulation, trauma, ASD, and behaviors. Kassie recently taught a Profectum Masterclass with a colleague on utilizing the DIR® model with gifted and twice-exceptional individuals, which was delightfully fun. 

Kassie is twice-exceptional herself, and the entire team at Greenhouse are neurodivergent in some way. Kassie lives with her lovely husband and two talented teens, all of whom are twice-exceptional. She also shares her home with the family dog, a ridiculously smart and anxious German Shepherd/ Lab mix. Kassie enjoys going to the theater, concerts, ball games, puzzles, reading and playing board games… but primarily spends her time at Greenhouse or chauffeuring her kids to rehearsals, performances, and games.

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Geoffrey Bracken is a trial attorney whose practice emphasizes commercial, construction, copyright infringement and personal injury litigation. He has represented individuals and businesses in both personal injury and commercial litigation matters at trial and appellate levels, and in arbitration.

J.D., University of Houston Law Center (1984)
B.A., Dartmouth College, cum laude (1981)

Shelley is married to Geoff Bracken, and mother to Hank, all of whom live in Houston, Texas. Shelley is a graduate of The University of Texas, and as an involved parent, she is very knowledgeable about the available therapies and their applicability to children and young adults on the spectrum. She is a devotee of the DIR Floortime model, having visited with both Serena and Stanley Greenspan for many years. In addition to Profectum, Shelley has served on the ReMind (DBSA) board of directors and the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo School Art Committee.

Cuong Do is President and Chief Executive Officer of BioVie Inc., a company developing treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Liver Diseases.  He was formerly President of Samsung's Global Strategy Group, where he helped lead the group’s strategy and growth efforts.  Prior to Samsung, Cuong served as the Chief Strategy Officer for Merck, Tyco Electronics, and Lenovo.  He was also a former senior partner at McKinsey & Company, where he spent 17 years and helped build the Firm’s healthcare, high-tech, and corporate finance practices.

In 2011, he co-founded Profectum with Monica Osgood, Ricki Robinson, and Serena Wieder to create a home for talented clinicians working with the DIR® model.  He advanced the notion that no single intervention approach can work by itself and worked closely with the Profectum faculty to create the Foundational Capacities for Development™ (FCD™) model.
He was active in the building of Autism Speaks, Celebrate the Children School, the EMBRACE Program at Florida State University, and other organizations supporting individuals with special needs.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College and a Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business. He currently serves or previously served on the boards of Adagene, Autism Speak, BioVie, Celebrate the Children, Caring for Cambodia, Curve Financial, Fulbright University Vietnam, Hope Trust, ILiAD Biotechnologies, the Institute for Exceptional Care, the National Youth Science Foundation, Newark Academy, RenalSense, the Tuck School of Business, and WuXi AppTec.  He was founder and Chairman of Callidus Biopharma, Lysodel Therapeutics, and M6P Therapeutics.

Mark Goldapp is a Sales Executive at Dell where he has spent 15 years helping public and private sector customers with complex technology solutions.  He is also the Board Chair for Day and Night Waters, makers of Cielo Water, a Texas Public Benefit Corporation.  Mark is an adoptive father of 2 children, and is active in the foster and adopt community in the Austin area.  Mark comes from a family of Social Workers and is passionate about expanding access to quality mental health care for children.  He has a BA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Cindy Harrison is senior faculty with Profectum and the President and CEO of ACT Learning Centre a multi-disciplinary treatment center that provides speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, and mental services to children with autism, developmental disorders and delays and their families. She is a speech-language pathologist, and her area of clinical focus is the provision of assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and adults with autism, disorders of relating and communicating, global developmental delays and their families and is a well-known public speaker who trains and educates clinicians and parents in North America and abroad. She holds a Master of Science in speech-language pathology from the University of Vermont and a post graduate certificate in the DIR® model. She is very active in her community and serves on several Boards and community associations.

Nucha Isarowong, PhD, LICSW, IMH-E® is Director of the Advanced Clinical Training (ACT) Program at the Barnard Center for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at the University of Washington. In this current role, he works to diversify and expand the infant and early childhood mental health clinical workforce in the state of Washington by centering relationships and principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in program administration, curriculum, and delivery. He engages in efforts towards systems change by influencing multi-level systems integration of diversity-informed practice principles in the IECMH field broadly, and with specific attention to father engagement and (dis)Ability. Nucha is a ZERO TO THREE Fellow (2012-2013) and a member of the Academy of ZERO TO THREE Fellows Coordinating Committee. He also serves as a national workshop facilitator and member of the Executive Committee of the Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (Tenets) Initiative.

Celebrate the Children’s founder, Monica G. Osgood, is an experienced behavioral consultant and therapist who specializes in using developmental approaches to support children with autism and other differences in relating and communicating. She is also the Founder and Director of the Developmental Center for Children and Families (Limitless), a Board Member and founding member of the Profectum Foundation, and a Board Member and founding member of Celebrate the Individual (CTI). Monica has worked in homes, therapy centers, and private and public school settings for over 20 years. Some of her experience has included assessment and the development of intervention programs, curriculum and IEP development, and parent and professional training.

In 1998, Monica created the first public school program with the Developmental Individual Relationship-based (DIR model) approach as the core philosophy. ​In 2000, she was the first educator to join the senior faculty of the Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning(ICDL) to provide interdisciplinary training in the DIR model. During her time with ICDL, Monica served as faculty for all of their yearly training institutes, spoke at many of their conferences and had the opportunity to work closely and collaborate with Drs. Greenspan and Wieder to further develop the DIR model in school settings. ​In 2004, she collaborated with Lauren Blaszak to open a state-approved, DIR model school for children ages 3-21 in Denville, New Jersey, now serving over 70 school districts and 150 families.

Additional accomplishments include, many speaking engagements at conferences and participation in television, radio and newspaper interviews across the USA, Wales, Ireland and Amsterdam. Monica has appeared on Welsh Channel 4 and BBC1 documentaries, sharing the DIR model approach with British parents and professionals. Monica and the Celebrate the Children school were featured in a TIME Magazine cover story in May of 2006. ​She serves on the Advisory Board for 3LPlace and the National Advisory Council for The Centers for Exceptional Children​.  Monica also serves on the Economic Development Advisory Council and the Sustainable Economic Development Plan Steering Committee for her local Town Council. Finally, she collaborated with twice Grammy nominated children’s artists Dan Myers and Brady Rymer on an album and music video celebrating diversity in children with all abilities released April 2011.

Lisa Reilly has led and developed non-profit organizations in the arts, affordable housing, criminal justice reform, and education. Her work honing strategic and operational aspects of organizations has enabled sustainable growth and expanded impact for their missions and visions. At Profectum, Lisa will oversee operations, strategic initiatives and fundraising, working closely with the Board of Directors as the organization enters a period of growth.

Lisa has held leadership roles as the Executive Director of Big Apple Performing Arts the Executive Director of the Emelin Theatre, the Managing and Artistic Director of the College of Staten Island Center for the Arts, and the Executive Director of the Earlville Opera House. She served as the inaugural Director of Dance Programming at The Flea Theater, and as Executive Director of Westbeth, an artists’ housing project in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.

Lisa taught at Syracuse University and has served as a consultant for nonprofit organizations in the areas of marketing, fundraising, board development, grants writing, executive searches, and curriculum. She has served on and chaired panels for the New York State Council on the Arts, the Council on Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour program, the Performing Arts Exchange Conference, ArtsWestchester, and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Lisa is a board member for Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre, Blessed Unrest, MICRO (the world’s smallest museum). and Racoco Productions. Recent consulting projects include fundraising for Good Call NYC (a social justice organization working to end mass incarceration and uphold Sixth Amendment rights) and Broadway for Arts Education (supporting arts education in NYC, Haiti, and India).

Lisa routinely serves as an Accessibility Clerk at voting sites in NYC, ensuring that all voters are able to have fair and equal access to their right to vote. She is an avid crossword puzzle fan and has solved over 1700 crosswords in the last year; she is also a recent convert to strength training, and can do a lot more push-ups than you think she can.

Ricki Robinson, MD, MPH. is co-director of Descanso Medical Center for Development and Learning in La Canada, California and a clinical professor of pediatrics at the Keck School Medicine of USC. She has been in private pediatric practice for nearly forty years, specializing in children with autism and developmental delays for over twenty-five years.

Dr. Robinson received her MD degree in 1973 from the University of Southern California. She trained in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, having served as Chief Pediatric Resident for CHLA in 1976. She is board certified in pediatrics. In 1988 she received her MPH from the University at Berkeley School of Public Health.

She has been actively involved in the field of autism since 1990, developing multidisciplinary educational and medical programs for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and devoting endless hours in education, legislation and research efforts on a national level. Dr. Robinson has been at the forefront of leading grassroots autism organizations. She was a founding board member of Cure Autism Now (now Autism Speaks) and the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL), and most recently Profectum Foundation. She was a member of the Autism Speaks Scientific Review Panel for over eight years. Dr. Robinson organized and chaired the first nationally recognized task force to define the standard of care for clinical trials in autism. The results of this outstanding effort were published in CNS Spectrums (January 2004, Vol. 9, #1). Most recently she was appointed as Medical Director of Profectum Foundation, an organization devoted to providing multi-disciplinary education and training for parents, families and professionals working with individuals with ASD across the lifespan.

A nationally sought-after expert, she has appeared on the Today Show, The Talk, Larry King Live and Good Morning America Health in support of the needs of children and families with autism spectrum disorders. She is an internationally recognized speaker addressing the needs of children with autism and other developmental delays to parent, professional and lay audiences worldwide for the past two decades. She is also the author of the acclaimed book Autism Solutions – How to Create a Healthy and Meaningful Life for Your Child. 

Dr. Serena Wieder is the Clinical Director and a founding member of the Profectum Foundation, dedicated to advancing the development and mental health of children, of all ages, including adolescents and adults with neurodivergent development and emotional challenges through interdisciplinary training and educational programs. She also co-founded the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders and was a Board Member of Zero to Three for 23 years. Dr. Wieder serves on various advisory boards to various programs serving infant mental health and other special needs.  Dr. Wieder also founded DIR-Israel, a training program that offers DIR Certificates, and provides consultation and training to many international and national programs.

As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Wieder has pioneered important approaches to diagnosing and treating infants and toddlers with infant mental health and developmental disorders.  She co-created the DIR Model with Stanley Greenspan, edited two diagnostic manuals for infants and young children. Further, she created models for interdisciplinary post-graduate case based training and pioneered parent-mediated intervention for parents of neurodivergent children.

Dr. Wieder has co-chaired and organized national and international conferences integrating development, neuroscience and intervention approaches for over 20 years. Dr. Wieder also developed approaches to integrate visual-spatial knowledge to advance emotional and cognitive development.  Her research interests concern follow up studies of children on the autism spectrum who received DIR model interventions and the evaluation of training and educational programs. In addition, she serves as adjunct faculty at various universities including Bank Street , UCS Davis IMH Fellowship Program, and Adelphi.

Amongst her many publications Dr. Wieder co-authored Engaging Autism, The Child With Special Needs and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health with Stanley Greenspan, M.D. They also co-edited Infants in Multi-Risk Families as well as the ICDL Diagnostic Manual for Infants and Young Children (DMIC)/ She edited the original Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood (DC 0-3) for Zero-Three. . Her chapters on the DIR Model appear in major textbooks on Autism Spectrum Disorders. Dr. Wieder also co- authored Visual Spatial Portals to Thinking, Feeling, and Movement with Harry Wachs, O.D. She has published numerous journal and book chapters and presents at multiple conferences nationally and internationally.

At this time, Dr. Serena Wieder also has a private practice in NYC for diagnosis, treatment and consultation regarding complex developmental and mental health challenges.