Training Services
TBRI and Circle of Security trainings for parents, teachers, and professionals — grounded in research, built around connection, and brought to your school, church, agency, or group.
About the trainings
Children who have been through hard things — trauma, loss, disrupted attachment — don't just need more information from the adults around them. They need connection. I'm trained and certified to teach two evidence-based frameworks that give parents, teachers, and caregivers practical tools for exactly that: Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) and Circle of Security.
Both have been used nationally and internationally — in schools, therapy and counseling settings, treatment facilities, child care centers, churches, homes, and orphanages — with strong, measurable results. I'd love to bring one (or both) to your group.
What I offer
Trust-Based Relational Intervention was developed by Dr. Karyn Purvis at TCU's Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development. It's a holistic, attachment-based approach to caregiving that helps children affected by trauma, abuse, or neglect build trust, regulate their bodies, and connect.
The training is organized around three sets of principles — empowering, connecting, and correcting — and it hands caregivers concrete language and strategies they can use in the middle of hard moments.
Circle of Security is an attachment-based program that helps caregivers read and respond to a child's relational needs — when to step in close, when to support exploration, and how to be the secure base and safe haven a child can return to.
It has decades of research behind it and is used with parents, teachers, and professionals around the world. For a deeper dive, Circle of Security International has a wide library of books, videos, and blogs.
A closer look
If you've never come across TBRI before, this short video from the Karyn Purvis Institute is a gentle introduction to the framework and the research behind it.
Frequently asked
I'll travel to your school, facility, church, or group to give the training. If you're not sure whether your location works, just ask — I'll tell you straight.
Both TBRI and Circle of Security are offered as either a 1.5-day training or a full 2-day training, depending on how deep your group wants to go and what the schedule allows.
Cost varies by which training you choose and by travel distance. Please reach out and I'll send you a quote.
Ready when you are
Whether you're organizing for a school, a church, a foster or adoptive parent group, or an agency team — reach out and we'll find dates that work and shape the training around what your people need.