Our History

In 2012 the Graduate School of Behavioral Health Sciences was organized to offer live, interactive, webinar-based, interdisciplinary degree programs, certificate programs, and professional CE courses, proseminars, workshops, and lectures that bring together physiology, behavioral science, and technology for practical psychophysiological applications in healthcare, human service, and performance training. 

The Graduate School opened its doors by offering programs in breathing science, based in part on some astonishing statistics. Surveys show that as much as 60% of the ambulance runs in the major US cities may be the consequence of acute symptoms brought on by dysfunctional breathing habits and that further, up to 25% of the US population may suffer the effects of learned dysfunctional breathing habits. Although the enormity of this problem is staggering in regard to its effects on health and performance, conventional healthcare has only superficially addressed it, if and when at all, e.g., drugs for symptoms brought on by dysfunctional habits. This failure, we believe, is the direct result of not understanding and addressing breathing (physiology) as behavior and that its solution is a multi-dimensional psychophysiological approach, both conceptually and practically. 

The Graduate School began in 2013 with designing and offering a Master of Science degree (MS) in Applied Breathing Science for empowering experienced, successful practitioners to help people improve health and performance through the application of behavioral learning principles to the physiology of breathing. To this end, the School recruited a faculty of 16 prominent scientists and clinicians who trained colleague professionals from around the world, representing a diverse range of professions including athletics, chiropractic, coaching, counseling, dental hygiene, dentistry, education, medicine, mental health, occupational therapy, orthodontics, physiotherapy, psychology, respiratory therapy, social work, and speech therapy.  It graduated its first MS degree and breathing science certification students in 2014. 

In June 2020 the Graduate School was reorganized as the Professional School of Behavioral Health Sciences.  The Professional School replaced the MS degree program with a shorter and more practical professional diploma program in Breathing Behavior Analysis, although the MS degree program may be offered again at a future date. The Professional School has continued on with the vision and mission of the Graduate School with its diploma, certification, certificate, proseminar, and podcast programs. These programs bring psychophysiological applications to healthcare, human service, and performance training professionals who learn new expertise, new practical skills, and requisite business knowledge relevant to their existing practices or to beginning new enterprises based on their professional backgrounds and their newly acquired knowledge and skills.