Katie is the founder of OrphanWise, an alumna of Lee University and has a Master’s Degree in Holistic Child Development. She worked as a preschool teacher for six years and served a term as an AmeriCorps VISTA with Habitat for Humanity. She moved to Paraguay in 2015 and spent three years working in a children’s home, where she served as director of the home and house mother. She also taught English in the on-campus middle school and high school. Since becoming a TBRI Practitioner in 2018, Katie has been doing TBRI® Caregiver Training and TBRI® coaching in English and Spanish. She is the oldest of five foster and birth siblings and is a proud aunt to six of her favorite kiddos. Her passion is to see restoration for children, teens, and adults who have experienced trauma.

OrphanWise offers Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) training to those who work with children and teens who have experienced abuse, bereavement, neglect, poverty, or other trauma.  Developed by The Karyn Purvis Institute for Child Development at Texas Christian University, TBRI® teaches caregivers to look beyond the surface and heal the long-term root of children’s behavioral issues.

Since 2019, OrphanWise has provided high-quality TBRI training® and resources to caregivers both in the U.S. and around the world.

Here are the links Katie talked about:

1. Attachment Style in Close Relationships – This short evaluation takes about 5 minutes to complete and gives an overall assessment of one’s attachment style in romantic relationships based on two dimensions: anxiety and avoidance. Access at http://www.web-research-design.net/cgi-bin/crq/crq.pl

2. ECR-Relationship Structures – This assessment takes 5-10 minutes to complete and gives a more comprehensive evaluation of attachment style across multiple relationships- mother figure, father figure, romantic partner, and best friend. Access at http://www.yourpersonality.net/relstructures/

Also wanted to share this wonderful podcast on Attachment produced by the KPICD.

https://child.tcu.edu/tbri-podcast-s01-e02/#sthash.9A9WBZrO.dpbs

https://www.facebook.com/orphanwise/

https://www.instagram.com/orphanwise/?hl=en

https://orphanwise.org/
 

Guests and the host are not (unless mentioned) licensed pscyho-therapists and speak from their own opinion only. Seek qualified advice if you need help.