Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play: Simple Strategies to Help Build Connections with Your Child

About Deborah D. Gray

Deborah D. Gray is the author of the bestselling book for parents Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents and an award-winning book for professionals Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma. Deborah has been described as attachment guru by Adoptive Families magazine and specializes in the attachment grief and trauma issues of children in her private practice Nurturing Attachments which is based in Kirkland Washington USA. Her passion is to help families develop close satisfying relationships. A clinical social worker she has worked over 25 years in foster and adopted children's therapies and placement. She has also been a therapeutic foster parent.Deborah is core faculty for the award-winning Post-Graduate Certificate program in Foster and Adoption Therapy at Portland State University. She is main faculty in the ATTACh-recognized Post-Graduate Attachment Therapy Certificate Program through Cascadia Training. She has taught in the Trauma Certificate Program at the University of WA and was the 2008 Henry W. Maier Practitioner in Residence at the School of Social Work at the University of WA. Deborah is a popular presenter due to her practical and positive approaches. She has keynoted conferences ranging from the Joint Council of International Children's Services to Orphan Conferences. She continues to work in a clinical practice with parents and children who help to teach her new approaches and techniques every day. Visit her website at www.deborahdgray.com.