Peter Dunlavey, B.S. Marketing
Parent Coach & Family Consultant
Director of Business Development
Pete is a certified, 20+ year experienced family consultant supporting families, children and young adults living with autism and other related disorders. As a parent coach, he provides relationship-based solutions to families via Online Workshops, Parent Training and Distance Consulting. He also provides Adult Services to individuals on the spectrum seeking to improve their capacity to develop meaningful personal and professional relationships.
Clients say he easily connects with fathers, helping them understand the guiding process, and how to build strong connections at home with their autistic children. Pete finds it most rewarding to work with adolescent and young adults on the spectrum, helping them take on the responsibility for their own self agency and to explore their own special interests and career pathways.
He currently also serves as a member on the Board Directors for the 501(c)3 Autism Career Pathways, where their mission is to increase the employment rate for neurodivergent individuals by creating resources and training curriculum designed alongside autistic adults.
Pete has been successful in the special educational field, joining the CATCH Clinic, LLC as Director of Business Development and Operations as well as providing relationship-based programs for a variety of families. He earned his RDI® Certification from the Connections Center in 2007 and has maintained it since.
Earlier, he worked for the Center for Autism and Related Disorders [CARD] as a behavioral therapist working with children with ASD. There he also served as the regional office manager for the CARD San Jose office, over-seeing client accounts, school district contracts as well as the hiring, training and supervising of a clinical staff of 25-35.
In another life, Pete spent seven years as a program manager for the event marketing group of a large Bay Area technology manufacturing firm, where he planned and executed the production of national trade shows exhibits, corporate training sessions, seminars and webinars for a 200+ sales and marketing staff.
Pete earned his B.S in Marketing from the San Jose State College of Business, with a concentration in Business Technologies (IT Management, eCommerce).