While I love working with kids, I’m also passionate about supporting and empowering parents. I offer trainings for parents at various times throughout the year:

Circle of Security®

The Circle of Security® parent course is a ten week course aimed at increasing attachment security of the child to the parent.   Participants have hands-on practice in identifying emotional cues, reading through miscues, and generating ideas for helping children heal within their new relationships. Parents reflect upon their own attachment history (how they were raised) in order to promote attachment security in their own child.  This course is appropriate for foster and adoptive families as well as caregivers.

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Child Parent Relationship Training

Child parent relationship training is a ten session program in a supportive group environment where parents learn to respond more effectively to their children’s emotional and behavioral needs. Parents learn to do therapeutic playtime at home with their kids. The goal is to strengthen the quality of the parent-child attachment bond as a means of reducing child behavior problems and stress.

Learn more about the techniques taught in this workshop…

Building Strong Relationships: Attachment-based Therapeutic Parenting for Your Adopted/Foster Child

This practical, parent workshop will provide parents with helpful remedies to the unique challenges of adoptive and foster families. The curriculum teaches parents how to understand and respond to behavior, attachment, and trauma issues using attachment-based parenting techniques that are proven to strengthen family bonds. Through interactive, highly engaging material, such as videos and exercises, parents will learn effective tools to:

• Help children feel comfortable accepting guidance and leadership
• Direct behavior without being punitive
• Communicate without rewards and threats
• Discipline constructively to foster learning
• Enhance a child’s self-esteem and sense of well-being
• Foster a lasting connection between parent and child
• Bring joy, laughter, and fun back into the family  

No current workshops scheduled. Please contact me if you are interested in scheduling a workshop, or check back for future dates.