Meet
Edward Keenan
M.Ed., BCBA, LBA
I’m Edward Keenan, a Board Certified and Licensed Behavior Analyst with a master’s degree in Behavior Analysis. I’ve spent more than 15 years working directly with people and helping them make meaningful changes in their lives.
What originally drew me to this work was pretty simple: I was interested in people. I wanted to understand why we do what we do, why we get stuck, and why changing something can be so difficult even when we know exactly what we’re doing.
That interest has only gotten stronger over the years. Eventually it led me to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which has become a big part of how I approach my work. I’m especially interested in what sits underneath the problems people bring to therapy—how we come to see ourselves, the stories and expectations we carry, what we avoid or struggle against, and how those things can shape our lives without us always realizing it.
I’ve worked with people from all kinds of backgrounds and with a pretty wide range of challenges. That has ranged from anxiety, relationships, attention and executive-functioning difficulties, and major life changes to working with neurodivergent individuals and people with much more complex behavioral needs. I’ve also trained more than 100 staff and professionals along the way.
For me, the work isn’t just about changing a behavior or solving the problem of the week. Sometimes it means stepping back and looking at the larger patterns: Who have I learned to be? What rules am I living by? What am I moving toward or away from? What actually matters to me? And how much freedom do I have to respond differently when my mind tells me to keep doing what I’ve always done?
Those questions are part of why my interests have never stopped at behavioral science. I’ve spent a lot of my own life exploring psychology, philosophy, contemplative traditions, and questions about identity, meaning, awareness, and what it means to live a meaningful life. I’ve had my own challenges and periods of getting stuck, too. I think all of that has shaped the way I sit with people and the kinds of conversations I’m willing to have.
Over the years, I’ve also realized that I connect particularly well with men. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to appreciate how much men need places where they can actually talk about what’s going on without feeling like something has to be terribly wrong with them first.
You can have a career, relationships, responsibilities, and a life that looks pretty good from the outside and still know that something isn’t working. You can be caught in the same patterns, questioning who you are or where your life is going, or simply know that you want something to change.
That’s a big part of why I started Haven Path.
I’m pretty direct, but I listen closely. I’m not interested in giving you generic advice or telling you how you should live your life. I want to understand what’s actually happening, help you see things that can be hard to see when you’re in the middle of them, and work with you on what you want to change.
I want this to feel like a real conversation. There’s room to be vulnerable, laugh, wrestle with difficult things, question things, and take a serious look at your life without making everything feel clinical.
