Virtual Potty Training Support
Individualized behavioral support for toilet training — including the cases where the usual advice, the three-day method and the sticker chart have all already been tried. Also, great for parents/caregivers who have never attempted potty training.
- BCBA-led
- Delivered virtually
- No diagnosis required
Toilet Training Stops for Different Reasons
The reason most potty-training advice fails some families isn’t that it’s bad advice. It’s that it often assumes one particular obstacle, and your child may have a different one.
A child who is refusing to sit is in a completely different situation from a child who genuinely isn’t noticing the physical cue yet, who in turn is different from a child who can do it perfectly at home and never at preschool. Same visible problem, three different plans.
Support starts by working out which one you’re dealing with — and that usually takes one conversation, not one more method.
Sound familiar?
- It went well for a week and then completely unravelled
- You're brand new to potty training and have no idea where to start
- Your child will sit, but nothing ever happens while they’re there
- Accidents happen minutes after a successful sit
- They’ll go at home but hold it all day at school
- Bowel movements are a separate problem from urination
- The bathroom itself has become something to avoid
- You’ve been told to “just wait until they’re ready” and you’re not sure that’s working
Where Support Focuses
Which of these applies depends entirely on your child. The plan is built after we understand the specific obstacle.
Toilet refusal
When sitting itself has become the battle, and pushing harder is making it worse.
Difficulty initiating
Teaching a child to notice the cue and communicate the need, rather than relying on adults to prompt every time.
Scheduled visits — and fading them
Building a schedule that works, then systematically stepping it back so the child leads instead of the timer.
Reinforcement that keeps working
The reason sticker charts fade after ten days, and what to do about it.
Accidents
Responding in a way that doesn’t add shame or accidentally reinforce the accident itself.
Generalizing the skill
Getting the routine to hold at preschool, at grandparents’, and in public restrooms — not just at home.
A straight answer about timelines
Progress varies a great deal between children. It depends on the specific skills being taught, how consistently the plan can be applied across everyone who cares for your child, and the environment they’re in. Anyone promising a particular number of days is guessing.
What a plan does give you is a clear reason for each step, a way to tell whether it’s working, and something to change when it isn’t — instead of starting over with a different method every few weeks.
About Potty Training Support
There isn’t a fixed cutoff in either direction. What matters more than age is the specific obstacle and your child’s current skills.
Sometimes, and it matters. Constipation in particular is a very common driver of what looks like refusal or regression, and no behavior plan will fix it. Please talk to your child’s pediatrician about any physical concerns — behavioral support works alongside medical care, not instead of it.
No — and previous attempts are genuinely useful information rather than a mark against you. Knowing what has already been tried, and how your child responded to each of it, usually narrows down the obstacle faster than starting from scratch.
Yes. Requesting the bathroom doesn’t have to be spoken — a sign, a picture, a device or a gesture all work. Teaching a reliable way to communicate the need is often part of the plan rather than a prerequisite for it.
Other Services
Virtual Parent Coaching
One-on-one behavioral coaching by video, built around the situations that are hard in your home.
School Behavior & Advocacy
Understand school concerns, make sense of behavior plans and walk into the next meeting prepared.
In-Person Parent Coaching
Coaching inside your family's real routines, with modeling and immediate feedback.
Before You Try a Fourth Method
Tell us what has happened so far. Working out which obstacle you’re actually facing is usually the fastest way forward.