The Help One Child Podcast

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.

How can you help yourself and your kids address stress, overwhelm and anxiety to live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives? Listen in and gain some new strategies and experience a heart breath practice at the end with Katherine Kozioziemksi, MA.

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.

Expert Guest Bio: Katherine Kozioziemski is a yoga & mindbody practitioner who specializes in helping hardworking parents dial down stress and anxiety.  She’s been practicing and teaching yoga and mindfulness for over 20 years with over 3,000 teaching hours.  Katherine is also a certified life coach as well as a ReEmbody Certified Practitioner.  Katherine holds a BA in Psychology and MA in Spirituality from Santa Clara University.  As a busy mom of 3, she’s learned to balance life, work and everyday challenges.  Aside from yoga and somatics, Katherine is also an amateur cyclist and swimmer and participated in the Maui Channel relay for her 40th birthday.  She is passionate about teaching others the power of their breath, mindfulness and movement to alleviate stress, overwhelm and anxiety so they can live happier and healthier lives in mind, body and spirit.  You can learn more about Katherine and her work at YogaAndSomatics.com

How can you help your child find and reclaim their voice? Listen to suggestions from expert guest, Jenn Ranter Hook, MA, the Founder and Executive Director of Replanted, a therapist with experience working with foster youth, and author of the newly released Thriving Families.

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.

Expert Guest Bio: Jenn Ranter Hook, MA, is the Founder and Executive Director of Replanted – a ministry that provides post-placement support to foster & adoptive families through support groups and the Replanted Conference. She received her Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from Wheaton College. She previously worked as a trauma therapist for children and adolescents in foster care. She speaks frequently on topics related to adoption and foster care support, mental health, and trauma. She is the Co-Author of Thriving Families: A Trauma-Informed Guidebook for the Foster and Adoptive Journey an author of Replanted: Faith-based support for foster and adoptive families, a mom to 1, a wife to Josh, and a Canadian!

Listen to expert guest, Dr. Kathryn Page in this just released podcast on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and FASD-WISE Parenting strategies to support your child 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.

Does chaos dominate your household at the holidays? Listen for tips on how to help kids be successful amongst the chaos of Christmas with expert Guest, Erin Bouchard, MA!

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.

Got kids with food issues? Listen for nutrition strategies to help children from hard places, especially as we enter the holiday season with food as central to many celebrations. Our expert guest is Trish Jonker, MA, LCPC.

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.

How do you cultivate gratitude daily within your family, especially with children from hard places? Listen for ideas from an expert and adoptive parent, Lori DiRicco, MSN,ARNP,Pmhnp-bc in this just released podcast!

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. (can you make this description relevant for the blog and podcast, rather than duplicate for reach since it's so similar?)

Is your child back in school or about to start? School can cause anxiety and overwhelm , but also much needed structure and balance for our families with kids from hard places. Listen to this just released podcast as Trauma Expert Erin Bouchard shares how to make the school year a success.

Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. In every Help One Child podcast episode, you will find bite-sized encouragement, helpful insights and practical parenting tips.

Expert Guest's Bio: Erin Bouchard. Author. Speaker. Advocate. Educator.  Erin founded Trauma-Informed 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 Erin 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-Informed 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.

The Post Institute Co-Founder, Kristi Saul is our guest again for part two! Listen to her passion, wisdom, and posture of the heart about raising children with medically complex health issues.

Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. In every Help One Child podcast episode, you will find bite-sized encouragement, helpful insights and practical parenting tips.

The Post Institute Co-Founder, Kristi Saul is our guest on this month's podcast! Listen to her passion, wisdom, and posture of the heart about raising children with medically complex health issues.

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.

Our guest today is Dr. Don Williams. Dr. Don is a valued Help One Child psychologist with over 30 years of experience, who works specializing with self regulation disorders and attachment. In 1999, he helped found the Help One Child Parent Education Group that our current Support Groups are modeled after. Dr. Don has worked with many of our Help One Child families through parent trainings, therapy and is such an encouraging, outstanding expert and resource to our families. Dr. Don Williams is discussing brain-based interventions to try with your child from hard places. 

Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. In every Bite Size Encouragement episode, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips.

Hearing labels and diagnosis acronyms can be overwhelming to parents and teachers, much less children! Listen to "RAD, ODD, ADD, & ADHD Oh My!" You'll get Jenn Hook, MA's suggestions and practical strategies to support your foster, adoptive, and kinship-formed family impacted by these labels now or possibly in the future.

Jenn Ranter Hook, MA, is our guest this episode and the Founder and Executive Director of Replanted – a ministry that provides post-placement support to foster & adoptive families through support groups and the Replanted Conference. She received her Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from Wheaton College. She previously worked as a trauma therapist for children and adolescents in foster care. She speaks frequently on topics related to adoption and foster care support, mental health, and trauma. She is the author of Replanted: Faith-based support for foster and adoptive families, a mom to 1, a wife to Josh, and a Canadian!

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.

Sleep is an essential need.  Is your family getting enough uninterrupted sleep and waking up feeling rested? Many parents and caregivers in foster, adoptive and kinship-formed families report feeling tired, drained and exhausted.  And children who have experienced trauma often have sleep challenges. If you have someone in your household struggling to get enough sleep, you want to first discover the root cause to then address it. Listen to this month's podcast on "Sleep Strategies for Your Family" with Trish Jonker, MA to gain several simple suggestions to try at home. 

Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. In every Bite Size Encouragement Podcast episode, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips.

Understanding Your Child's Behavior Spiral, triggered by trauma, is crucial when parenting children from hard places for healing! Listen to this month's podcast with Erin Bouchard, an adoptive, foster, bio and kinship Mama, and founder of Trauma Informed Parenting, to get insight on how to connect with your child's emotional needs instead of correcting to better handle THE BEHAVIOR SPIRAL in this month when we celebrate love!

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.

Our guest today is Erin Bouchard from Ontario, Canada of Parenting through the Lens of Loss, the Connective Parenting, and the Trauma Informed Parenting FaceBook Group. Erin is committed to helping foster and adoptive parents learn to parent through the lens of loss. Educating parents about early trauma and the effects on kids throughout their life is part of her passion and life work.  Erin has a degree in counseling and is also a kinship, foster, adoptive and bio parent. Her video content has been used in our Help One Child Support Group curriculum. 

Don't stress about your child's attachment!  It can form later and at any point. Listen to this month's just released podcast on "Recapturing Missed Attachment" with Donna Erickson, MA.  Find hope in her sharing how to relax and strengthen attachment with children who joined your family through foster care, adoption or kinship placements.

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.

Does your child struggle with learning? Listen to the Help One Child's newest podcast with Jennifer Giese,MS, a school phychologist and resource parent, as she shares on how foster/adoptove parents can better support their children's education.

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.

Strengthen your relationships and marriage! Parenting children is hard work and can take a toll on marital bliss. Listen in to this month's podcast with Laura Beth DeHority, LMFT, as she shares about common marriage challenges and solutions faced while parenting children from hard places.

Often foster and adoptive parents hope love will be enough. It's not. It's complicated and filled with emotion. Listen to this month's newly released podcast with Donna Erickson, MA, specifically addressing anger and frustration. Sharpen your ability to manage frustration and anger, so you can model healthy expressions to your children.

We are delighted to have this conversation with Donna Erickson to help adoptive, foster, and kinship parents learn how to deal with anger (in both themselves and their children!) Donna has been a Foster Parent Trainer with the Foster and Kinship Care Education Program of the Department of Family and Children Services in Santa Clara County for the past 30 years. Being a former foster child herself enables her to also speak from a place of personal experience.

Have you ever thought of your parenting role including emotion detective? Dysregulation, better known as a meltdown, is going to happen. Meltdowns are fueled with emotion and are difficult for parents and children alike. Listen to this month's just released podcast episode to learn more about strengthening your curiosity and toolbox of other parenting skills. David Bergesen, MFT shares his wisdom and expertise as an adoptive grandparent and therapist who has worked with trauma exposed youth and their families for over 35 years as founder of COFY, Community Options for Family and Youth in Contra Costa County, serving kids in tbs, probation, and residential programs, many with IEPs and mental health needs.

How does a cluttered home relate to trauma? Or does it? Listen in to this month’s podcast on simplifying all facets of family life to address children’s trauma-related behavior challenges. Claudia Mercier, MA, shares insight from 25+ years of parenting, adopting and fostering.  This is geared at foster, adoptive and kinship parents and caregivers.

Claudia and her husband have a large foster adopted family with seven children ranging from 2-24 years old.  They have fostered children for over 15 years while raising 5 children born into their family at the same time.  Approximately 3 years ago, Claudia launched The Foster Village, a ministry  Contra Costa County that encourages people to foster and then wraps around and supports those families. The group started off with two families and now has 160 involved in the ministry!  Claudia also facilitates a bi-monthly support group for foster, adoptive and kinship parents virtually during the pandemic, which previously gathered in-person.

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 ever wish you could wave a magic wand and transform your family? Listen to this month's just released podcast on "Whole Brain Parenting: The Magic Wand" with Nick Lawrence, MA to get insights about how this approach helps us better understand our own brains to attune to our children.  While not magic, it is the transformative work that brings healing and hope!

Are you getting stuck in power struggles with your adopted, foster, or kinship placed child?  Does it feel like your child is ruling the household?  You’re listening to the RIGHT podcast on effective tools for getting out of power struggles, reducing conflict, and reversing cycles of stress at home.  Our guest today is Dr. Marlina Rose Selva, a therapist in private practice and a parent trainer with Help One for the past few years. 

The teen and early adult years have unique challenges. Join Wendy Witham, LMFT, as she discusses how healthy attachment prepares Foster and adoptive teens and young adults to successfully Launch. Witham is not only in private practice, but also serves on the Help One Child Education Committee, supporting fellow foster, adoptive and kinship parents as a blog contributor and parent trainer. Listen in to glean knowledge from her real-life experiences as an adoptive parent and attachment therapist.

It’s the month of love! Is communication within your family rooted in and reflective of love? Tune in to our newly-released podcast on “Better Communication with the Ones You Love,” with Ann Arnold, LMFT. Ann shares about how to have healthy communication with children who have experienced trauma. Warning: It may look different than you expect! Tune in to learn more.

Tune in to hear from leading experts in the field of trauma and attachment. Help One Child is dedicated to changing the lives of at-risk youth by sharing knowledge with adoptive, foster and kinship parents. Each episode will be loaded with insight and practical parenting tips. Listen to this month's new Help One Child Podcast Bite Size Encouragement as we start a new year focused on resolutions and positive habits for our children and ourselves! Donna Erickson shares on "How to Help Your Child Develop Positive Habits to Increase Well-Being."

This is the show that equips adoptive, foster and kinship parents with information from experts in the fields of trauma and attachment. Our hope is that every episode, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips. Dr. Sarah Ashley Hill, a therapist with a trauma background, discusses attachment experiences and how that impacts how we see and relate to God.