Provider
Jake Mahon, PhD, BCBA-D, NCSP
Insurances Accepted
• Fee for service (private pay) available
• Most private insurance companies accepted
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• HMA
• Moda
• Pacific Source
• First Choice
• Medicaid/OHP
• Sliding scale application available upon request
Age Groups Served
Up to college age
Background
Jake and his wife were born and raised in the Rogue Valley and consider the Rogue River their home base. They have two children who love to adventure and get dirty outdoors. When not working or volunteering, you can find Jake fishing for steelhead, archery hunting, backpacking into remote areas of Oregon, and training his dog to sniff out deer and elk antlers.
En route to licensure as a Child Psychologist, Behavior Analyst, and School Psychologist, Jake attended the University of Oregon (UO) and then completed his clinical training at the Monroe Meyer Institute (MMI) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).
Prior to licensure, Jake held a wide assortment of professional roles, including preschool teacher, wildland firefighter, clinical director of a school-based substance abuse counseling program, juvenile work crew supervisor, school resource officer, ABA therapist and supervisor, statistics consultant, and fishing guide in Alaska, Hawaii, and Oregon. Jake also volunteered for over a decade with Committed Partners for Youth mentoring program, Northwest Steelheaders, and Special Olympics, and in 2011, he was selected to coach the US Special Olympics swimming team at the World Games in Athens, Greece.
Educational Background
B.A., Psychology with honors, December 2005, University of Oregon, Dept. of Psychology.
Areas of concentration: Substance Abuse Prevention, Developmental Psychopathology
M.S., Special Education, December 2016, University of Oregon, College of Education.
Ph.D., School Psychology, June 2018, University of Oregon.
Predoctoral internship: Behavioral Pediatrics in Integrated Care, Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC).
Postdoctoral fellowship: Department of Pediatric Psychology, Child Development and Rehabilitation Center (CDRC), Institute on Development and Disability, Oregon Health & Science University.
Certifications / Licenses
Clinical Psychologist (PhD)
Board Certified Behavior Analyst - Doctoral (BCBA-D)
Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP)
Post-Graduate Experience
After receiving his PhD, Jake completed a 12-month postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation at OHSU where he provided behavioral health services to children and their families in the Harold Schnitzer Diabetes Health Center (HSDHC). Jake also responded to behavioral health consultation requests at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital (DCH) across several pediatric clinics.
Areas of Specialization and Interest
Jake is especially interested in working with children and families with complex psychosocial profiles who are at disproportionate risk for poor developmental outcomes; especially families who are economically disadvantaged and in rural communities of Oregon. Jake’s primary specialties are applied behavior analysis (ABA), comprehensive psychological evaluation, behavioral parent training, school consultation, and treatment of ADHD, autism, anxiety, and OCD.
Jake is also highly interested in applied clinical research, with experience using both single case and group designs. His research experience spans a number of focal areas, including ADHD diagnostics, college student marijuana use, efficiency and effectiveness in treatments for autism, consultation models for training paraprofessionals, parent training program effectiveness, and program evaluation for mentoring programs. Jake’s research during fellowship included improving behavioral health screening procedures in the HSDHC, program evaluation for the Novel Interventions in Children’s Healthcare (NICH) program, and evaluation of reliability and validity of a measure of adherence to the diabetes regimen for children with type 1 diabetes.
Communities Served
Medford, OR and surrounding communities.
Telemedicine services across all Oregon
Pediatric Services
Comprehensive psychological evaluation (up to college-age).
Including, but not limited to assessment of neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, ADHD, learning disorders, and intellectual disorders. Evaluation also often includes assessment of family functioning and mental health factors such as mood disorders, anxiety-related disorders, stress-related disorders, etc.
Outpatient Behavioral Parent Training
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is used to teach parents to deliver behavioral interventions at home to treat common behavioral challenges such as noncompliance, toileting problems, feeding problems, disruptive behavior, aggression, self-injury, and pica.
Outpatient psychotherapy (e.g., CBT, ERP, ACT, DBT).
Behavioral management of chronic health conditions (e.g., type 1 diabetes, chronic pain).
Adult Services
Behavioral Parent Training.
Appropriate Referrals
Parents seeking evaluation for a neurodevelopmental disorder for their child.
Parents seeking therapy for their child regarding symptoms of ADHD, ASD, challenging behavior, OCD, anxiety, stress, or other elements of daily functioning for their child
Parents seeking guidance with behavior management
Parents with children with less-than-optimal adherence to a medical regimen (especially T1D)