This Psychologist Got Rich Selling Her Chain Of Autism Treatment Centers. Now She’s Trying To Buy It Back.

Doreen Granpeesheh built the Center for Autism and Related Disorders into a national chain and sold it to private equity firm Blackstone in a $600 million deal. Now, in an unexpected twist, she is trying to buy the bankrupt company for a much smaller sum.
It is my baby, I cant let it die, says Doreen Granpeesheh of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, the autism therapy company she founded at age 27.
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