Empowering families, schools, and agencies to nurture connection and healing

At embrace, I bring together lived experience and professional expertise to support everyone involved in a child’s story. Through 1:1 guidance, courses, workshops, and trauma-responsive resources, together, we build understanding that shapes safe, connected, and confident support so every child feels secure and understood.

Together, we can create lasting change for children and families

Adoption is more than paperwork and processes. It’s about hearts, healing, and building a safe environment.

Let’s walk this path together

When you choose to work with embrace, you access best-practice advice and precious real-life experiences to help your adoption journey. This includes:

Lived experience: As an adoptive parent and with over 10 years working with children, I understand the complexities, challenges, and joys of the adoption process. This lived experience informs every aspect of the guidance I share with you.

Trauma-informed guidance: My experience of working with schools and agencies through significant transitions equips me to offer strategies that are grounded in attachment and trauma awareness. This helps you understand behaviours through a new lens and respond with empathy and connection.

Compassionate support: embrace provides a safe, non-judgmental environment where all stakeholders – families, schools, and agencies – can openly discuss concerns and find practical, tailored support.

Preparing together for the adoption journey
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Workshops

Online or in-person workshops help parents, schools, and agencies support children with early life trauma, loss, or attachment challenges. I blend lived experience with practical strategies to grow understanding, relationships, and safe environments where children can flourish.

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Online resources

Access trauma-informed resources to guide and ground you, from fertility challenges to family life. Practical tools, reflection prompts, and downloadable guides help you respond with awareness and confidence. Find clarity, comfort, or connection, and a reminder you’re not alone.

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1:1 sessions

My 1:1 sessions offer compassionate, personalised guidance for your journey, from IVF decisions to pre-and post-adoption support. We explore emotions and find practical ways forward. Every session is grounded in trauma-informed care, helping you feel safe, seen, and supported.

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“Adoption is a story of hope, but also of complexity. Every child brings a past shaped by loss, separation, or trauma and every parent brings their own story, too.”

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Creating connection through the 4 Ss

At embrace, everything we offer is rooted in a trauma-informed approach to parenting and attachment. One of the most powerful frameworks we use comes from Dr Daniel Siegel’s work, ‘The 4 Ss of secure attachment’. These four simple yet transformative principles help you understand what your child truly needs to feel safe, connected, and able to grow.

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Safe

Safety is about creating a safe environment where together you can build positive attachments and connections.

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Seen

Every child longs to be seen and accepted for who they are, without conditions, without pressure, and without judgement.

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Soothed

Soothing is about staying close, being present, and showing children they don’t have to face their feelings alone.

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Secure

When a child feels safe, seen, and soothed, security grows. Over time, they learn to trust not only you, but also themselves and the world around them.

Safe

Children need to know they can trust your presence. At embrace, I’ll help you understand how early experiences shape safety and give you practical, trauma-responsive tools to build trust through patience, consistency, and calm connection.

Parents and professionals will find a judgement-free space where your feelings and fears are met with honesty, warmth, and understanding. My training and resources give you clarity, reassurance, and practical tools so you don’t feel alone or overwhelmed.

You’ll learn how to create safety that goes beyond physical protection – the kind that helps your child trust your presence, your patience, and your consistency. This isn’t about getting it perfect – it’s about building trust, one safe moment at a time.

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Seen

Every child wants to be noticed and understood for who they really are. My resources guide you in recognising what’s beneath the behaviour, so your child or the child you are supporting feels truly seen – not just for what they do, but for who they are.

At embrace, you’ll find space where your worries and hopes are met with honesty and understanding. I will help you notice your own strengths as a parent or professional carer, so you feel recognised and valued on the journey.

I’ll guide you in understanding your child’s cues, emotions, and needs, so they feel understood for who they are, not just what they do. Through reflective tools and gentle practices, you’ll discover ways to truly connect with your child.

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Soothed

Big feelings can feel overwhelming for children, parents, and professionals. I’ll equip you with gentle, practical strategies to co-regulate, calm, and comfort, helping your child learn that emotions are safe to share and manageable together.

Parenting or taking care of a child through trauma can feel overpowering. At embrace, you’ll learn calming techniques that help you regulate your own emotions, so you can approach challenges with patience and steadiness.

Through simple daily practices, you and your child can find your rhythm of calm connection. This isn’t about avoiding hard feelings – it’s about learning how to face them side by side.

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Secure

When a child feels safe, seen, and soothed consistently, they begin to feel secure. Through embrace, you’ll learn how to nurture that deep sense of belonging and connection, giving your child confidence that you are their steady place to return to.

You’ll gain confidence in yourself, knowing you have the tools and understanding to support your child’s journey. That steady self-assurance helps you show up with consistency.

Security grows in relationships over time. At embrace, I’ll guide you in creating an environment where love, trust, and connection become the foundation you both can return to, again and again.

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Courses, workshops, and resources to support you on your adoption pathway

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Adoption course

Online learning from lived experience and trauma-informed practice. This course guides you through challenges, joys of adoption, giving clarity and confidence as a parent.

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Training workshops

embrace workshops bridge theory with lived experience to deepen understanding and strengthen trauma-informed practice. Available 1:1, online or face-to-face for parents, schools, and agencies.

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Adoption Toolkits

A set of practical resources to get you started, including reflection guides, parenting tools, and gentle strategies you can use right away to build a connection with your child.

Available from January 2026

Parents and schools testimonials

“For the first time since we started our adoption journey I feel truly understood, not lost. embrace gave me language for what we were going through and supportive tools that actually work. I have what my child needs to feel attached.”

Christina & Alistair

Parents of 2

“I used to feel overwhelmed by my child’s big emotions and didn’t know how to respond. Through embrace’s workshops, I’ve learned simple, trauma-informed strategies that help me stay calm and support my child.”

Sarah & Craig

Parents

“Emma’s exceptional pastoral ethics and deep compassion for children and families are truly inspiring. She brings a rare blend of empathy, wisdom, and practical support, particularly when working with those who have experienced trauma.”

Mrs Louise Noonan

Principal

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