About Mary-Jo
Mary-Jo specializes in supporting and enhancing attachment in children, bonding in parents and resolution of early losses, trauma and neglect in children. In her work with parents, adoptive parents, foster parents and their children, she uses Dyadic Developmental Therapy, Child and Family Play Therapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Mary-Jo provides training and consultation in developmental trauma and refugee trauma. An on-going and exciting project is When We Are Very Young, a video podcast series on attachment, trauma and parenting.
Mary-Jo’s Qualifications
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Mary-Jo and her husband Kevin share many wonderful experiences together including raising five children (one adopted) and 20 years of foster parenting. They worked together on Journey of Peace storybooks and in producing theatre productions of Missbegotten, a play about incest survival and BETTER, an original theatre production exploring Newcomer students’ experiences. Mary-Jo and Kevin have four grandchildren, Benjamin, Avery, Matthew and William who are sources of unending joy.