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Listen to Help One Child's just released Bite Sized Encouragement Podcast with Bryan Post, an incredible clinician, behaviorist and adult adoptee to learn more about how to reach our children and adolescents with insecure attachment despite their big, rejecting and even violent behaviors!
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Bryan Post is an internationally recognized child behavior expert specializing in adoption and trauma. If you’re an adoptive parent in Northern California struggling with your child’s behaviors, you’re not alone. He founded Leaf Wraparound (LeafWraparound.com) offers compassionate, expert support to help families heal and thrive. Serving families across Northern California, Leaf provides in-home and community-based services designed to reduce stress and restore connection. Don’t wait until the crisis escalates—reach out today and discover a path toward peace and healing. In addition, he co-founded The Post Institute. He's created https://bondify.ai/ the first adoptive-parenting AI generated coaching tool in your pocket. Help One Child appreciates his collaboration and contributions with book donations, blog articles, video usage permission for connection group curriculum, leading our Reset Day 2024 in Santa Rosa and now his podcast guest appearance.
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Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child’s blog and podcast releases.
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Listen to Help One Child's NEW Bite Sized Encouragement Podcast to hear Kristin Orphan's (Co-Founder of Finally Home) message of hope in faith, healing, belonging and being YOU!
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Kristin Orphan holds a Master’s of Science in Mental Health and Wellness with an emphasis in Family Dynamics and is a Certified Family Life Educator. She is also an Adjunct University Professor in Psychology. Kristin is also the managing partner of Family Wellness Associates, and a Family Wellness Master Trainer, where she is also a contributing author to their Survival Skills for Healthy Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families curriculum. She is a worship leader and keynote speaker for special events and retreats nationwide. As a writer, Kristin has co-authored The Strongest Link, a research based marriage and family program. She also wrote Encouragement from the Heart, devotions for foster, adoptive, and kinship parents. In her down time, Kristin enjoys writing as well as performing as a vocal artist.
Kristin Orphan is the Co-Founder of Finally Home, which is a non-profit whose mission since 2008 is to equip foster, adoptive, and kinship families to build healthy homes where children and youth can heal. Since inception, more than 1,500 families have benefited from our programs and products, which are designed to give caregivers the tools they need to help the whole family thrive. Whether through an encouraging children’s story book, a therapeutic toolkit, or an empowering training, Finally Home’s trauma-informed, research-based curriculum, reinforce time-tested skills and characteristics found in healthy families.
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Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child's blog and podcast releases.
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Listen in as Simon Benn, an adult adoptee, of Thriving Adoptees Podcast, and THRIVE trainer shares the most important tips for foster and adoptive parents to help your children blossom. He has a wealth of insight gathered in nearly 500 interviews of adult adoptees and those in the adoption constellation.
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Thriving Adoptees Podcast
Expert Biography of Simon Benn: I was adopted at 5 weeks old and told so early I don’t ever remember not knowing. My childhood was good and adoption wasn’t an issue. At 40 I found out that my childhood teddy bear was gift from my birth mother. A volcano of anger erupted within me. Then a feeling of being unloved. Adoption had left me hot and business success had left me cold. This kickstarted a learning process and, eventually, sharing what I’ve learned to help adoptees thrive.
Simon Benn is based in the United Kingdom, but known internationally and created the Thriving Adoptees Podcast and hosts webinars and a blog in support of helping other adoptees thrive.
Podcast Description: Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child's blog and podcast releases.
Listen to expert guest, Dr. Kathryn Page in this just released podcast on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and FASD-WISE Parenting for practical strategies to support your child with FASD, from hard places.
Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. In every episode, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips.
Bio of Guest: Kathryn Page earned a PhD from the Center for Psychological Studies in Berkeley and an internship in addiction recovery at Stanford, a few highlights of Kathryn Page’s career include: Disabilities Specialist for the Santa Clara County Juvenile Drug Treatment Court; bilingual School Psychologist in San Lorenzo; 504 Coordinator in the Santa Clara Juvenile Hall; and teacher of social workers with UC Davis Extension.
Dr. Page has been working on FASD for 30 years. She founded and directed the diagnostic clinic in Santa Clara County, CA, and is the co-chair of that county’s 5-year plan. She provides the mandatory FASD training for Los Angeles County’s mental health providers, and advocates for legislation at the state and federal levels. Kathryn consults, writes, teaches, and lives with this condition in her son as well as herself.
Listen in for an in depth discussion on sensory and attachment issues with food in service of our families and children with Tiffany North, RN Expert Biography: As an RN, Certified Intuitive Eating Professional, and creator of the Food Attachment Model ™, Tiffany North helps people with disordered eating finally find freedom, balance, and satisfaction. Her coaching is focused on secure attachment, Intuitive Eating, body respect, and Health at Every Size principles.
Laurabeth DeHority, PsyD, therapist and adoptive mom shares what compassion fatigue is for parents of high needs children. Listen in for practical strategies to overcome compassion fatigue & strengthen yourself & your family!
Expert Guest Biography: LauraBeth DeHority, PsyD, LMFT is an adoptive parent and therapist in private practice who specializes in working with caregivers and families who are touched by all forms of special needs. She works with individuals, couples, siblings, groups and multi-generational families to provide support in areas of family roles, communication, stress reduction, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction and trauma release. She is a valued Help One Child trainer, blog article author and podcast guest, as well!
Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child's blog and podcast releases.
What is the psychological impact of being adopted? Listen to Julie Ryan McGue's journey navigating life in an adoptive family to gain wisdom and inspiration for your own family. Julie Ryan McGue's Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood (releases Feb 6, 2025, She Writes Press) is a compelling prequel to her award-winning debut, Twice a Daughter. Set in the Chicago suburbs, Twice the Family is a coming-of-age memoir following Julie and her twin sister through challenges of growing up in an ever-expanding adoptive family, uncovering family secrets that ultimately test their unbreakable bond.
Julie Ryan McGue is an American writer, a domestic adoptee, and an identical twin. Her first memoir, “Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging,” released in May 2021, winning multiple awards. Her work has appeared in the Story Circle Network Journal, Brevity Nonfiction Blog, Imprint News, Adoption.com, Lifetime Adoption Adoptive Families Blog, Adoption & Beyond, and Severance Magazine. Her personal essays have appeared in several anthologies, including “Real Women Write: Seeing Through Her Eyes” (Story Circle Network) and “Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis” (She Writes Press). Her collection of essays, “Belonging Matters: Conversations on Adoption, Family, and Kinship” (Muse Literary), released in November 2023. She writes a biweekly blog and monthly column (The Beacher Newspapers), in which she explores the topics of finding out who you are, where you belong, and making sense of it. Julie splits her time between Northwest Indiana and Sarasota, Florida. “Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood” is her third book. Visit her website for more info: juliemcgueauthor.com
Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child's blog and podcast releases.
Click to listen to how essential your care for yourself as caregiver is to strengthen not only your life, but your children's and family's lives. Donna Erickson, MA shares her expertise as a former foster youth, parent trainer, medical nurse and counselor with tons of practical strategies to kick of this new year or start any day!
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Donna Erickson, M.A. is a valued Help One Child Trainer and Podcasts and Blog contributor. Donna has trained Foster Parents for 30+ years through The Santa Clara County Department of Family and Children Services and served as the Foster and Kinship Care Education Program Director for 16 of those years. Donna stays current on her continuing education in her three fields of expertise: nursing, counseling, and educating. She brings experience and wisdom from her years as a foster youth, parent and grandparent! She also facilitates and trains our Parents of Teens+ and Tweens and Teens Parent Connection Groups.
Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child's blog and podcast releases.
Listen in as the holidays approach for how to offer "Same Here" emotional support from trauma therapist and founder of Replanted, Jenn Hook, for any of the kiddos in your home having a hard time with all the holidays, gatherings, and family time bring this time of year!
Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child's monthly podcast releases.
Take a listen to Kari Woerz who shares about Positive Parenting strategies to support youth who joined our families through a foster, adoptive or kinship placement. Which tips may be helpful or what to avoid? Try these at home today!
Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child's monthly podcast releases.
Listen as Tiffany North, RN discusses how attachment relates to food patterns and body image in Help One Child's latest podcast release. Gain new, practical strategies to try with food to support and strengthen attachment.
Listen as Simon Benn, an adult adoptee of the Thriving Adoptees Podcast breaks open the resiliency myth in this part 2 episode. It's all about us, the parents doing our own work! Foster and adoptive parents, he asks you to put your own oxygen mask on first so you can be trauma informed and hope obsessed!
Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child's blog and podcast releases.
Listen as Simon Benn of the Thriving Adoptees Podcast shares from his epiphany around adoption, exploring how insights to shift, trauma informed, and hope obsessed are necessary for us parents! In next month's episode, he continues discussing the resiliency myths in part 2!
Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child's blog and podcast releases.
Listen as Julie Kurtz, LMFT, Founder of Center for Optimal Brain Integration and trauma therapist and trainer, shares 4 key strategies for supporting our children, parents, teachers, schools and homes on stress reduction through trauma informed, best practices that help ALL children thrive.
Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child's blog and podcast releases.
Listen to learn more about how the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) can assist in trauma healing, particularly with ptsd. SSP works on vocal proxity to engage the inner ear to hear cues of safety. This is geared at parents raising children from hard places, who joined their families through adoption, foster care, kinship or a relative placement.
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Katherine Warner, MA, MFT, who is a private therapist in the bay area. She’s a big believer that habits formed to survive difficult childhoods may be wreaking havoc. She empathizes with how many may feel overwhelmed in parenting and works closely with my clients on communication skills, personal awareness, and nervous system regulation in order to stay calm and effective during conflict, difficult conversations, and life transitions. Her background has given her experience working as a behavioral coach and as a therapist with incarcerated and probation youth, and women in recovery. She sees teens, individuals and couples, including stuck relationship patterns, depression, anxiety, trauma, PTSD, OCD, and parenting or co-parenting issues. One of the more recent additions to her practice is the Safe and Sound Protocol.
Listen as our guest today, Erin Bouchard, shares about felt safety and practical connection strategies to help a child believe they're safe in your home. Erin Bouchard. Author. Speaker. Advocate. Educator. Erin founded Trauma-Based Parenting because she's passionate about helping foster and adoptive parents understand early trauma and attachment. Erin Bouchard and her husband, Joel have been foster parents since 2011. They adopted out of the foster care system in 2014. They are kinship, foster, adoptive, and bio parents. Over the years she has learned a lot through their experiences with early trauma. She teaches and educates about connection, attachment, trauma, grief, and loss. Her first book, Trauma-Based Parenting is on the way! Help One Child appreciates her collaboration and contributions with blog articles, video usage permission for support group curriculum, and podcast guest appearances.
Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. In every episode, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips.
Do you have a transracial, adoptive family? Just like love is not enough to support a child with a trauma background, love can't shift ethnic and cultural differences either. Listen in as Trish Jonker, MA, LCPC, shares practical strategies for transracial parenting.
Trish Jonker has a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology and is currently a licensed counselor in 11 states and is certified in Integrative Medicine for Mental Health. But she’s not just a counselor, for the past 10yrs she has also been a foster mom / legal guardian to 8 kiddos (who are now ages 10 – 24). So taking her academic & professional work and combining it with her personal experience, she has created a counseling practice specializing in supporting foster & adoptive families through telehealth & in person sessions. You can learn more about their story in her book, The Call to Love (available on Audible, Amazon & iTunes or at trishjonker.com). Trish is available for telehealth services and is a valued contributor to Help One Child’s blog and podcast.
Increase the fun, joy and play for your family! Bonus, play helps heal trauma, too. So listen to this podcast while you drive, take a walk, or wash dishes to gain a few new strategies from a therapist and TBRI Practitioner, Carey A. Gil, LCSW.
Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. In every episode, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips.
Bio for our Expert Guest: Carey Gil, LCSW has spent over 20 years supporting Bay Area families in their growth and healing. She firmly believes in the human power to triumph and blossom after hardship and trauma because she has borne witness to it hundreds of times. She holds advanced certificates and training in trauma and therapy modalities including: TBRI Practitioner, Certified Family Trauma Professional, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique and the Trauma Research Foundation’s Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies, where she studied under Bessel van der Kolk.
With training and experience working extensively with foster youth, foster/adoptive families, divorce/coparenting and families in crisis, she is a wise and encouraging voice to guide you on your journey. She loves supporting families to bond, repair relationships and grow, and to support individuals in their personal trauma healing. She has developed trainings and coached biological, foster and adoptive families through family court, DFCS, and the Refugee Foster Care program. Her direct work with individual and family trauma recovery has given her a unique lens on how to marry traditional parenting and therapy methods with trauma-informed interventions that actually create stronger relationships and mental health healing.
Carey is a private practice therapist at Lotus Counseling Services in San Jose (https://lotuscounselingca.com). She is also a Lecturer and Faculty Field Liaison at the SJSU Graduate School of Social Work where enjoys sharing her passion with the next generation of helping professionals. Beyond her professional responsibilities, Carey says that her greatest learning is done at home parenting her own children, who have a variety of special emotional and educational needs.
Jenell M. Jones M. Ed. authored and released the book, Shattered in May 2023 for Foster Care Awareness month. This conversation shares a little bit about her child, their family's journey, the struggles and her hope for more systemic change to bring healing and well being for children in care.
Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. In every episode, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips.
About the Expert Guest: Jenell M. Jones is an early education entrepreneur, currently operating multiple early learning centers, which specialize in providing high quality learning experiences to children who experience trauma in low-income areas. Her education background includes earning a bachelor’s degree in business management and a master’s in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis on autism spectrum disorders from Arizona State University. A native of Phoenix, Jones has provided her expertise to families for the last decade and currently hosts private discussions with other foster and adoptive parents on current issues affecting the nontraditional home. Through her life experiences, passion is the source by which she governs herself to make a difference. The goal is not to be perfect but to assist others in rising through difficulties. Jones’ blueprint of success can be summed up in a few statements: Be tenacious, be kind, be loving, but most of all…be forgiving. Find out more about her at JenellJones.com.
Eva Gonzales, LMFT shares practical strategies to support your child from hard places who displays aggressive trauma behaviors. Listen for bite-size encouragement and tips!
Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. In every episode, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips.
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Justice Resource Institute: JRI.org
www.gonzalesfamilycounseling.com
Guest Bio:
Eva Gonzales is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over a decade of clinical experience in Contra Costa County. She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology at University of California Davis and her Master of Arts in Counseling at Argosy University. Eva has had experience working with all ages in multiple locations: adult, individual, and couple work in her office, and school based therapy in order to help students better access their education, therapy with juvenile offenders incarcerated and in their homes with their families, and behavioral therapy with children in the community. Eva has spent much of her career in community mental health, focusing on youth aged 4-21 and their families in a variety of different modalities, such as play therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), EMDR, Nuerofeedback, systemic therapy, Functional Family Therapy (FFT), Trauma Drama, and Attachment Self Regulation and Competency (ARC). Most of this work was focused on supporting resiliency in the face of complex and ongoing trauma. Although Eva has extensive training in Evidence Based Practices and using the data to direct treatment, she is willing to apply whatever therapeutic tool will help the client in front of her.
Eva enjoys playing with her two sons and yellow lab, writing music, singing, playing guitar, dancing, working out, talking shop, and going on adventures with her husband. She’s also a valued trainer and podcast contributor for Help One Child!