The Help One Child Podcast

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.

Expert Guest Bio:

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.

Show Notes:

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!