The Help One Child Podcast

Episode Description: Listen and discover how to understand your own emotional patterns better while gaining simple, practical tools to support your child through big feelings. We’ll explore how the nervous system shapes behavior, how to respond (instead of react) in challenging moments, and how to create a sense of emotional safety that helps your child grow into a confident, resilient human. Kath...

Listen as local therapist, Thedy Veliz, PhD, LMFT shares insights to to better understand the unique, sensitive children we are parenting. Learn how to offer support through interventions and empathy for our children who have experienced trauma. It's a sneak peak for when he covers this topic more in depth on June 13, 2026 for the virtual training with questions and answer time, too! Trauma an...

Episode Description: In this podcast, Nick Lawrence, MA will teach us how to notice what “color” (red, yellow or green) you and your loved ones are in at any given time. Gain practical tools to help you come back to your own personal green zone where creativity and logic reign. When people are in their green zone, they are best able to hear the voice of God guiding them in their lives. This is the...

Episode Description: Listen to our newly released podcast as Matt McDonald, Help One Child's Executive Director, Dad through Foster Care, Adoption and Birth, and a Pastor, discuss how faith, Scripture and Church can help sustain your family formed through adoption and foster care. He'll share when this happens and when church falls short, too. Expert Biography: Matt McDonald, Help One Chil...

Episode Description: Listen to Help One Child's JUST RELEASED Bite-Size Encouragement Podcast episode to gain new parenting tools for strengthening attachment while addressing power struggles and conflict with kids who joined your family through foster care, adoption or a kinship/relative placement. Tom Dozier is a local East Bay expert who was an engineer in his first career and now is a beha...

Episode Description: Listen to Help One Child's just released Bite Sized Encouragement Podcast with Bryan Post, an incredible clinician, behaviorist and adult adoptee to learn more about how to reach our children and adolescents with insecure attachment despite their big, rejecting and even violent behaviors! Expert Guest Biography: Bryan Post is an internationally recognized child behavior expert...

Episode Description: Listen to Help One Child's NEW Bite Sized Encouragement Podcast to hear Kristin Orphan's (Co-Founder of Finally Home) message of hope in faith, healing, belonging and being YOU! Expert Guest Biography: Kristin Orphan holds a Master’s of Science in Mental Health and Wellness with an emphasis in Family Dynamics and is a Certified Family Life Educator. She is also an Adju...

Episode Description: Listen in as Simon Benn, an adult adoptee, of Thriving Adoptees Podcast, and THRIVE trainer shares the most important tips for foster and adoptive parents to help your children blossom. He has a wealth of insight gathered in nearly 500 interviews of adult adoptees and those in the adoption constellation. Show Notes: Thriving Adoptees Podcast Expert Biography of Simon Benn:  I...

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

Listen in for an in depth discussion on sensory and attachment issues with food in service of our families and children with Tiffany North, RN Expert Biography: As an RN, Certified Intuitive Eating Professional, and creator of the Food Attachment Model ™, Tiffany North helps people with disordered eating finally find freedom, balance, and satisfaction. Her coaching is focused on secure attachment,...

Laurabeth DeHority, PsyD, therapist and adoptive mom shares what compassion fatigue is for parents of high needs children. Listen in for practical strategies to overcome compassion fatigue & strengthen yourself & your family! Expert Guest Biography: LauraBeth DeHority, PsyD, LMFT is an adoptive parent and therapist in private practice who specializes in working with caregivers and families...

What is the psychological impact of being adopted? Listen to Julie Ryan McGue's journey navigating life in an adoptive family to gain wisdom and inspiration for your own family. Julie Ryan McGue's Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood (releases Feb 6, 2025, She Writes Press) is a compelling prequel to her award-winning debut, Twice a Daughter. Set in the Chicago suburbs,...

Click to listen to how essential your care for yourself as caregiver is to strengthen not only your life, but your children's and family's lives. Donna Erickson, MA shares her expertise as a former foster youth, parent trainer, medical nurse and counselor with tons of practical strategies to kick of this new year or start any day! Expert Guest Biography: Donna Erickson, M.A. is a valued Help One C...

Listen in as the holidays approach for how to offer "Same Here" emotional support from trauma therapist and founder of Replanted, Jenn Hook, for any of the kiddos in your home having a hard time with all the holidays, gatherings, and family time bring this time of year! Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every...

Take a listen to Kari Woerz who shares about Positive Parenting strategies to support youth who joined our families through a foster, adoptive or kinship placement. Which tips may be helpful or what to avoid? Try these at home today! Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights...

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 adoptiv...

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...

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 kins...

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 p...

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 b...

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...

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 h...

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 a...

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 Resou...