Kathryn has been working closely with children, teens, and their families since 2010. Having started at a state group home for boys, she watched, first hand, as many families struggled through raising and caring for children and teens coming from traumatic backgrounds. From there, she partnered with a number of therapists, social workers, and other specialists to serve families on a more personal level, as an attachment and trauma-informed traveling “Therapeutic Respite Nanny” and parent/family coach. It was through this work that she met and later adopted her oldest daughter, in 2013. For the last ten years, her desire has been to equip families and their support systems with tools and resources for bonding and building healthy family dynamics; walking alongside parents to empower them to become coaches in the lives of their children into adulthood.

“Kat’s” experience ranges from individuals and families, those going through or planning to foster and/or adopt, and families struggling through attachment, aggression, anxiety, and transitions into raising adult children, as well as physical, emotional, and social trauma.