A center-based ABA therapy clinic being built by a Rockville family, for Rockville families — a soft, welcoming home in the heart of our downtown where children with autism can learn, play, and thrive.
We believe environment is part of the therapy. Every space below exists in the design — soft light, warm materials, and rooms with a purpose.
Concept illustrations. Photography of the finished spaces will follow as construction completes.
Nearly 9,000 square feet at 101 S. Washington Street, renovated by our founders' own construction team — warm and calm by design.
We chose the heart of Downtown Rockville deliberately — steps from the Montgomery County courthouse square and Rockville Town Square, minutes from Rockville Metro and I-270. Drop-off before work, a coffee while you wait, and therapy woven into your family's real day.
101 S. Washington Street
Rockville, Maryland 20850
Opening Spring 2027 · Founding-family tours as construction milestones allow
Clinical care designed and led by our Board Certified Behavior Analyst Clinical Director — an owner of the center, not an employee of a distant network.
Evidence-based therapy in dedicated rooms, built around your child's assessment, goals, and pace.
Small-group programming for social skills, communication, and school readiness.
Cooking, dining, and daily living taught hands-on in a real teaching kitchen.
Applied Behavior Analysis is the most widely recommended, evidence-based therapy for children with autism — endorsed as best practice by the U.S. Surgeon General and the American Academy of Pediatrics. In plain terms: we use what your child already loves to teach the skills they need — communication, play, daily living, and confidence — in small steps, measured honestly, and celebrated often.
At The Yohannes Center, ABA is delivered one-on-one, in person, in rooms designed for it — with parents trained alongside, so progress travels home.
101 S. Washington Street — design complete, renovation led by our founders' construction firm.
Buildout, Maryland licensure, and insurance credentialing in progress.
Interest-list families meet our Clinical Director, complete intake, and verify coverage. Clinical team hiring and training.
Our founding families begin — with priority placement and a center that's been expecting them.
"We didn't set out to open another ABA office. We set out to build the place we'd want to walk into with our own child."— Saba & Areaya Yohannes, Co-Founders
We live here. Our four children have grown up in Rockville — in the King Farm community, just up the road from the downtown blocks where this center is taking shape. So when we say this isn't just a business venture, we mean it in the most literal way: we are investing in the development of the children of our own community — the children we love, live beside, and see every day.
We chose downtown Rockville because impact should be close enough to walk to. A center our neighbors can reach, staffed by clinicians who become part of this community, in a home built to serve Rockville's children for generations.
Every decision here — the soft rooms, the parent spaces, the clinician who owns a piece of the practice — comes back to one belief: when you build for the children of your own community, you build differently...
Saba & Areaya Yohannes
Co-Founders · Rockville residents
Founding families receive priority enrollment as we open — in a county where waitlists are measured in months.
Every message is read and answered personally by our family — thoughtful, direct responses, no phone trees, before opening and after.
Founding families meet our Clinical Director early and help shape scheduling, programming, and the family experience.