I know what it feels like to live in confusing chaos, to give your love to a child who only pushes it away. Years ago, when my husband and I first brought a child who had suffered from developmental trauma into our home, we tried parenting her the way we had our healthy children. Despite both of our medical trainings and our years of experience parenting four healthy, well-adjusted children, we failed.

This placed me on a journey to be equipped. I had the opportunity to work with and be trained by the top attachment specialists in the nation. I founded King’s Ranch, a residential facility for abused, neglected, and abandoned children, where for over 15 years I parented children with severe developmental trauma and multiple failed adoptions. These were children whom adoption specialists, mental health professionals, social workers, and family services directors deemed unable to ever function in a home environment. With the right parenting techniques, we saw many of them heal from developmental trauma and reactive attachment disorder. Moving toward more secure connections, they were then adopted by loving forever families, whom we equipped with the same therapeutic parenting techniques for long-term success.