On this episode of MissPoppins: The Art of Parenting, we sit down with Jamie Halan-Harris, who has spent decades working with children in foster care and running a therapeutic home where she essentially rehabilitated kids carrying trauma from abuse, neglect, and repeated displacement.

Jamie talks about what trust looks like for a child who has been through multiple homes in a week, how trust-based relational intervention and “child-honoring” practices guided her work, and why she believes no child is too broken to heal. She also explains the differences between PTSD and complex childhood trauma, what conscious parenting requires in difficult moments, and how early intervention can change the path for kids with autism and other behavioral conditions.

Her stories offer a rare inside view of what it means to rebuild trust and stability for children who need it most.