Coaching: Head Parenting Coach Kristi Saul – offering free 30 minute coaching/therapy calls to all 111 Families:
Email: kristi@adoptionparentinginnercircle.com
Web Page: http://www.adoptionparentinginnercircle.com/
Who is Kristi Saul, and what does she know about helping adopted children?
Kristi is the founder and leader of The Adoption Parenting Inner Circle, the first online educational support for adoptive and foster parents and professionals, and is the co-founder of the Post Institute, She holds a masters degree in Community Counseling from the University of Central Oklahoma. Kristi has worked in trenches with some of the most challenging families and children for the past 25 years. She has published numerous articles on topics related to parenting, and educating attachment challenged children.But more than that, her expertise is gained from life experience.She has been surrounded by adoption her entire life. Kristi is the daughter of an adopted, attachment challenged mother, her cousins were adopted, her former spouse, Bryan Post, an adopted child, and she has an adopted son. She has been behind the scenes in every aspect of the creation of the Post Institute, the development of the stress model and family centered regulatory parenting, the Inner Circle, and the Post Group Home projects. Every aspect of her life for the past 12 years has focused on understanding, and living the stress model and creating healing and harmonious relationships in her family. Her vast first hand experiences of living the stress model and creating healing for the most challenging children provides a refreshing down to earth application of neuroscience, child development, regulatory parenting, therapy, and an in depth understanding of family dynamics.Kristi lives a quiet life in Claremore, Ok where she raises her daughter Marley and her son Kevin.
Coaching/Therapy Phone Sessions: Elaine Spicer
Offering 1 Hour Calls 50% off
Email: connecthrulove@gmail.com
Web Page: https://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/name…
Facebook Page: Challenging Children
As both a biological and an adoptive parent. Elaine has 30 years of professional experience. Her training in the past 8 years with Bryan Post has dramatically changed her practice. She works with parents to create a positive, calming relationship with their children and to redefine the concept of discipline. Her practice is in Gary Indiana.
I believe there is hope for families to heal from the chaos that occurs when children are hurting and acting out. I am passionate about my work with families whose children display challenging emotional and behavioral issues such as: aggression, stealing, lying, and other destructive and impulsive behaviors both in and outside the home. I work with adoptive, biological, blended, and foster families. I help parents understand what is happening, in the brain, when children are under stress. Problem behaviors arise from a state of stress and fear. I work with parents to help them recognize the core reasons behind challenging behaviors.
I teach parents the tools they need to calm their own fears and help their children to calm the fear and stress that drives acting out behaviors. Parents are able to help their children develop problem-solving strategies, by becoming emotionally regulated. My role is educator, therapist and coach to families.
I am both a biological and an adoptive parent. I have 30 years of professional experience. The training I received in the past 8 years has dramatically changed my practice. I work with parents to create a positive, calming relationship with their children and to redefine the concept of discipline.
Bio: I have worked with families and children in the child welfare field for the past 35 years. I began in Child Protective Services as a caseworker, became a supervisor and after 6 years returned to school part time to earn an MSW. I developed an interagency child sexual abuse program in Lafayette, Indiana that provided therapy for all the various family members: victims, parents, perpetrators. After receiving my MSW, I went on to work for several different agencies in the Lafayette area, always serving families and children. I moved to Gary, Indiana 18 years ago and subsequently went to work for the Gary Community School Corporation as a social worker for emotionally handicapped students. I met Bryan Post at a training in Michigan sometime in 2006 or 2007 and then brought Bryan to Gary the following spring to do a workshop for Social Workers in the schools, school personnel, and local agency staff. From the time I first read Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control I became an ardent supporter of the work of the Post Institute and trained with Bryan in Virginia Beach. All of my work from that point on became trauma-informed. I retired from the Gary School system, worked briefly at a local charter school and then went into private practice and became a Department of Child Services service provider for foster families and adoptive families. I have trained foster and adoptive parents as a trainer of The Great Behavior Breakdown.
Laura Slagle – Coaching/Therapy: Offering 1 Hour Calls 50% off
Website: http://www.lovereallyisenough.com/
Email: laura4mft@gmail.com
Laura Slagle, LMFT has Expertise in Providing a Therapeutic Home Environment, Providing a Therapeutic School Environment, or How to Help as a Support Person of a Family with a Traumatized Child (for relatives, friends, bus drivers, coaches, etc.). Her practice is in Fresno California
Laura has over three decades of experience working with children and families as an educator, administrator, advocate, case manager, and mental health professional.
Bio: Laura began her career as a Montessori teacher in Michigan and the Bay Area of California. After becoming a foster and adoptive parent, moving to Fresno, and becoming a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), she became interested in helping children who had experienced trauma and loss.
In 2009, Laura went back to school to get her MA in Psychology from Chapman University with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy. She has also completed additional training in child welfare, couples therapy, and therapeutic parenting.
For the past several years, Laura has been providing psychotherapy in a variety of settings, including non-profit agencies, school districts, and private practice settings.
Laura is also an experienced and sought-after speaker who shares her passion by providing staff training and parent education for school districts, foster family agencies, adoption groups, churches, and other non-profits.
Zach Gomm and Denise GoldingCoaching/Training in UK
Email: livelifeandlove@gmail.com – Phone: 07828823228
Website: www.livelifeandlovehealing.co.uk
Facebook page: Rewire your Future (creating peaceful families)Zach Gomm and Denise Golding – Expertise: Parent and Professional training, coaching calls, webinars, in-home interventions, school interventions, family work (including DDP and Theraplay) Attachment based parent-child work and individual counseling/ therapy, Great Behavior Breakdown Trainers with The Post Institute
Offering: 30 minute coaching calls 50% Off
Denise Golding is a senior social work practitioner and counsellor. She has nearly 30 years experience in working with children and families, including the past 20 years working in adoption. Denise is a certified instructor in Bryan Post’s model, ‘The Great Behaviour Breakdown’ (GBB), which is an innovative parent training for adopters, foster carers and any parents of children with challenging behaviour. She is also trained in DDP Levels 1 & 2 (with Dan Hughes), Theraplay Level 1, Mindfulness and Systems Family Therapy Level 1. Denise has a post-graduate diploma in Psychosynthesis counselling, as well as in the Therapeutic application of the Arts, and Psychotherapy skills with children and adolescents. Denise has a wealth of experience of dealing with a wide range of challenging behaviour including Adoption, Fostering and ASD/ADHD and Mental Health difficulties.. She has worked in Child Mental Health and in Statutory as well as private and Voluntary Agencies. Denise strongly advocates that the ‘love-based’ parenting approach is the most successful approach for parenting children with challenging behaviour albeit, environmental or genetic. Denise works independently as a counsellor with adults as well as young people and their families and offers free-lance training as well as parent-child therapy on a private and contractual basis to Local Authorities in the UK.
Zach Gomm is a foster carer and adopter; he has fostered many children over the past years and is an adoptive father to his teenage son who he has parented using Bryan Post’s The Great Behaviour Breakdown (GBB) with amazing results for the last 10 years. Zach is a certified instructor of GBB, and is trained in Theraplay Level 1, DDP Levels 1 & 2 and Mindfulness. His experiences include parenting children with significant trauma and attachment difficulties, children who display aggressive and sexualised behaviour as well children with a lack of social skills, learning difficulties and so much more….His own journey with numerous foster children has been his most profound teaching and Zach feels this brings a unique aspect to his work and in being a trainer, as he has experienced first-hand many of the challenges other adoptive and foster parents and any parent with challenging behaviours face. His mission is to support families in healing behaviour breakdowns using a love based approach. Zach is particularly interested in the concept of the paradigm shift, and ‘blocked’ parenting and how our own stresses as parents, both past and present, impact on our ability to provide care.
Parenting Trainer/Educator Sherri Boles-Rogers
Parenting blog at www.parentingheart.com
Email: sherri@parentingheart.com
Offering: Listening – The Forgotten Half of Communication Online Training 50% Off
Module 1: Setting Your Intentions
Module 2: Empathic Listening
Module 3: Questions to Check for Connection
Description: This online mini-e-Course, developed by Sherri Boles-Rogers of ParentingHeart.com, will delve into the part of communication that is often overlooked and underdeveloped. Many people focus on learning how to express themselves in ways that foster connection and often ignore the skill of listening. Deep listening can open the door for understanding and connection with your child. This is especially important as your child grows into the adolescent and teen years. If you want to keep your child talking to you, then listening is a vital skill you need to cultivate. In this course, you will learn about setting your intentions for listening, how to cultivate empathic listening by listening for clues beneath the words, and the questions to ask to check for connection.
The course consists of three self-paced recorded online learning modules complete with worksheets (pdf) to help you practice the tools and deepen your listening skills.
Bio: Sherri Boles-Rogers is an ACPI Certified Parenting Coach. She is also a graduate of the Center for Nonviolent Communication’s Parent Peer Leadership Program, part of the Peaceful Families, Peaceful World Project. She has been a parent educator and parenting workshop facilitator since 2005.
Sherri provides one-on-one and group coaching to parents. She also facilitates parenting classes and parenting book study groups based on the models of attachment parenting and Nonviolent Communication™.
As a working mother of two boys, ages 19 and 17, she knows firsthand about the challenges of integrating conscious parenting into daily hectic family life. In her work with parents, her goal is to provide awareness, understanding, and non-judgmental support for families to cultivate “power with” relationships based on mutual respect and trust.
Sherri lives in Atlanta with her husband, Greg and her two boys, Jake and Jeremy.