Reading People. Managing Risk. Influencing Outcomes.
Integrating crisis negotiation, behavioral analysis, and human intelligence to support complex operations, strategic decision-making, and high-stakes environments.
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Three pillars of service, built on the same foundation: read the people, prepare the moment, act before the situation hardens.
Hostage & Crisis Negotiation
TRAINING & CONSULTINGMental health professionals supporting law enforcement, private, and corporate teams — force multipliers integrating personality patterns, behavioral prediction, and influence into operations and training.
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Human Intelligence
HUMINTInterpreting human behavior, motivations, and influence within organizations. Detection of internal, personality-based security threats and discrete intelligence gathering across operations.
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Applied Behavioral Analysis
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCEBehavioral insight to guide decision-making. Assessment, personality dynamics analysis, and training to recognize the subtle cues that dictate response behavior.
Learn More →Extortion & Coercion Response
When someone is being blackmailed, extorted, or coerced, the instinct is to comply or panic. Both responses escalate the situation. Our team provides structured, confidential intervention — assessing the threat, managing communications, and developing a resolution strategy that protects our client without creating additional exposure.
“The goal is not just to stop the threat — it is to ensure it never has leverage again.”
- •Threat verification and source analysis
- •Controlled communication management
- •Evidence preservation and documentation
- •Law enforcement coordination (when appropriate)
- •Long-term protection and counter-leverage strategy
Why Extinction Behavior
(n) [ik-stingk-shun] — The process of eliminating a learned behavior by removing the reinforcing consequences.
Extinction Behavior Services was founded on a single insight: build a team to bridge mental health and psychology with the operational real-world.
“Our team lives in both worlds. We have one foot in the practical, operational, boots-on-the-ground side, the other in a deep understanding of motivation, drive, and influence.”
Hostage negotiation, forensic evaluation, special operations, and behavior
The team has done the work, not just studied it
Source protection is built into how we operate
Behavioral intelligence catches problems before they become incidents
Advisory Board
Dr. Andy Young Ed.D, LPC-S, NCC
Crisis Negotiation, Threat Assessment, Published Author
Dr. Young brings decades of experience in crisis negotiation and threat assessment, serving as a leading voice in behavioral intelligence and published authority in the field.
Colleen Mancinelli, MA
Forensic Evaluation, Violence Risk Assessment
Colleen specializes in forensic behavioral evaluation and violence risk assessment, providing critical analytical insight for high-stakes environments.
Operational Team
Senior Behavioral Analyst
Violence Prevention • Behavioral Conditioning
Decades of field experience in behavioral analysis and violence prevention, specializing in identifying pre-incident indicators and developing intervention strategies for high-risk environments.
Threat Assessment Lead
Threat Assessment • Crisis Intervention
Expert in multi-disciplinary threat assessment methodologies with extensive background in law enforcement and intelligence-driven risk evaluation.
Intelligence Operations Director
Intelligence Operations • Executive Protection
Former intelligence professional with deep expertise in HUMINT operations, counter-surveillance, and protective intelligence for high-profile principals.
Crisis Response Specialist
Crisis Consulting • Applied Behavioral Science
Specializes in real-time crisis response and behavioral conditioning, bridging forensic evaluation with actionable field protocols.
60+ years combined experience across law enforcement, intelligence, behavioral science, forensic evaluation, and crisis management.
“Our team includes professionals whose operational roles require the same level of discretion we bring to every client engagement. The fact that we protect our own people the way we protect yours is not a limitation — it is a demonstration of our standards.”
Different Missions. Same Discipline.
Read the people. Prepare the moment. Act before the situation hardens.
Law Enforcement
Sworn agencies and tactical units who want mental-health-trained professionals embedded in their crisis response — or behind their training scenarios.
- Hostage and crisis negotiation team training and scenario design
- Experienced role players (military, operational, behavioral) for high-fidelity exercises
- Consulting support on active or developing high-risk subjects
- Behavioral evaluation of subjects of investigative interest
Private Organizations
Corporate security teams, executive protection details, legal, HR, and leadership facing a person, a conversation, or a situation that ordinary procedures aren't built for.
- High-risk termination and confrontation strategy
- Insider behavioral intelligence and protective intelligence support
- Workplace behavioral threat assessment and program development
- Leadership decision-support and personality-dynamics consulting
- Pre-engagement personality profiles for partnerships, hires, and joint ventures
Individuals & Families
Principals, families, and family offices whose risk is human and whose privacy is non-negotiable.
- Discrete behavioral intelligence around staff, advisors, and inner circle
- Personality profiles for personal partnerships and family dynamics
- Stalking, fixation, and obsessive-behavior assessment and intervention
- Extortion, blackmail, and coercion response support
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