THERAPISTS “WHO GET IT”:
(Provided by RAD Parents)
★★★★★ “Terry is extremely intuitive with children with attachment issues. She helps families heal through theraplay, family therapy and at-home interventions. In just a few short months, we have already seen glimpses of healing in our child with RAD and we few more equipped.” - Ashley (July 2021)
★★★★★ “I give a five star! Laura walked me through how to parent a child with RAD over and over as I learned and practiced. It helped me to not feel powerless, hopeless or helpless. She is very understanding and I never had to justify one thing! My daughter never opened up. She would sit and listen. I continued to go she did not.” - Ginny (July 2021)
COLORADO, Colorado Springs
C. A. R. E.
Mark Beal
(719) 338-3537
★★★★★ “I have 3 adopted children with their own unique needs. Mark has been the first therapist that I've ever met that has such a deep and complete understanding of our needs.”
★★★★★ “When placed with my step sons we started to see her and as their trauma came out she helped us navigate. She was so understanding, helped us navigate thru diagnosis of RAD and kids’ PTSD.” - Ashley (July 2021)
COLORADO, Evergreen
Evergreen Psychotherapy Center
Dr. Terry Levy
(303) 674-9220
★★★★★ “Dr. Levy changed our lives. I say he's the "superhero" in my story. Amazing RAD therapy for all four of us. We all still see him on occasion.” - Gina (July 2021)
CONNECTICUT, Glastonbury
Laurie Landry
(860) 841-8563
★★★★★ “All of her clients are kids not living with their first family. She’s also an adoptive mom herself. She totally gets it and has been a great support.” - Laurie O. (July 2021)
“We had a great therapist at age 17 finally in Florida Dr Ed Shoemaker. He was awesome and his pH.D is in reactive attachment disorder.” - Michele (July 2021)
FLORIDA, Orlando
Family Life Christian Counseling
Jennifer Hurley
(352) 988-6673
www.FamilyLifeCounselingCenter.com
★★★★★ “My teen is seeing Jen and my younger two and myself see Tina. We have only been going about a month and a half but so far both Tina and Jen seem to have a great knowledge of RAD and the behaviors that come along with the diagnosis. So while I truly believe they are helping my kids, I also feel very validated and supported. Especially with Jen and my teen. She really knows how to relate to kids this age and at the same time totally believes the manipulation and triangulation that is taking place and isn’t buying into it. So I’m more relaxed when she is with my son. The entire practice specializes in foster care, adoption, trauma, fetal alcohol syndrome and other spectrum and trauma related problems. We drive an hour and a half to see them but it’s worth it in order to see someone who understands. Also, though they are Christian counselors, they don’t just do Christian counseling if you don’t want that.” - Alexandra (July 2021)
FLORIDA, Pinellas
Family Enrichment Services & Adoption Related Services
(727) 657-7761
“I love our therapist. She is constantly providing support & resources. Of course the kids have to put the tools to work, so that’s a negative but not on the therapist. Actually all of our therapists from Family Enrichment Services and Adoption Related Services of Pinellas in Florida have been amazing and research RAD and new therapy techniques all the time.” - Cara (July 2021)
GEORGIA, Decatur
Art of Connecting
Magda Tevdoradze
(401) 373-3022
★★★★★ “Magda specializes in foreign adoption and not only understands these children but can explain to us in words that we understand. We spent many of those younger years in her office.” - Cindy (July 2021)
“Misty is amazing!! She trained in Dan Hughes' DDP and has RAD children herself. She totally gets it and knows how to help parents heal attachments.” - Mia (July 2021)
“Joan saved our family.” - Amy (July 2021)
“Carol is awesome!” - Melissa (July 2021)
“She was the first Dr. in 13 years who understood what was happening, really listened, and cared enough to help us and fight for us. She applied for RTC, it got denied, she appealed it, got denied, she applied for fair hearing, it got approved. My daughter has been in RTC for almost 5 months and is coming home in a week. I just wished we could have gotten proper help years ago and maybe things would have turned out differently.” - Amy (July 2021)
“Love our therapist! My son has thrived and is improving. She has been supportive to me an imperfect parent who does some things right and needs help doing the rest. She has affirmed and guided my son on his self discovery. His anger, self loathing, manipulation lying etc. I am beyond grateful.” - Tamara (July 2021)
★★★★★ “We are having a great experience with Family Forward in St Louis, MO. Theresa has taught me so much about trauma and parenting from that perspective.” - Suzi (July 2021)
★★★★★ Bridget from Partnership cam to our home weekly to help manage behaviors of our child. She always took into consideration what we (the parents) said is happening, and many times stayed with me longer than our allotted time. Partnership offers different services. I have only used in home visits for my child.” (July 2021)
★★★★★ “IFAS come to our home and worked with our family, not just our child. They have been almost like advocate for us working with other professionals. 5 stars for sure. They have been a game changer!” - Stephanie (July 2021)
★★★★★ “We went to a counselor when our son was in kindergarten, but she was very adamant it was us that was his issue. We switched to Lori Roberts who has made a lot of progress with him. She's honestly been amazing. She's gone out of her way to learn and read as much as she can. She's also a former teacher, so she's seen a lot of different kinds of kids. We had an evaluation with a psychologist also told us we were the problem, so Lori helped us search for someone who was more knowledgeable about RAD!” - Shannah (July 2021)
★★★★★ “We found a FABULOUS counseling center that is trauma based! We also see Psychiatrist Dr. Trayer of Franklin Family Services for meds.” - Heather (July 2021)
SOUTH CAROLINA, Charleston (+2 Locations)
Bridgepointe Therapy
Emily Belknap
(843) 628-6381
www.BridgepointeTherapy.com
“We have an amazing new attachment therapist in SC. She gets it she only works with adopted kids and has seen so many things and she does teletherapy!” - Hayley C (July 2021)
“We've had a really great therapist. She is open, honest, relatable, very caring, well trained in EMDR & sand therapy. Very insightful. Helps you understand why the kid does what they do & how to retrain the brain.” - Shelly B (July 2021)
VIRGINIA, Charlottesville
The Ainsworth Attachment Clinic
Lisa Layne
(434) 984-2711
“I’m in VA and we have a few awesome therapists. One went out of her way to get my son in an attachment clinic for full eval and personalized therapy. They were able to pin point his specific attachment issues and work him through them. My kids have come a long way, they have more of a chance of a semi decent future life because they had a few great therapists.“ - Karen H (July 2021)
“My daughter was in a facility in Va that had 2 therapists they were awesome with her. They called her out on her crap, they were very caring with her also, the right mix of tough and love. They also did EMDR therapy with her and helped her through the worst of her trauma. My kids have come a long way, they have more of a chance of a semi decent future life because they had a few great therapists.” - Karen H (July 2021)