Beautiful Blogger Award
Written by, Kate Oliver, MSW, LCSW-C
Karen, the Queen of Familiosity, was kind enough to nominate me for the Beautiful Blogger Award. I feel so beautiful! Thank you Karen, for thinking of me so kindly. I encourage everyone to check out Karen’s blog, especially the beautiful Navajo Prayer she shared in her recent post when she was nominated as a beautiful blogger. I plan to live up to my new award by continuting to provide blogs that come from my heart because I know that anything that comes from the heart is beautiful.
Here are tasks asked of those who choose to accept the nomination as a Beautiful Blogger:
1. Thank the one who nominated you by linking back.
2. Tell one unknown fact about yourself.
3.Nominate five blogs.
4. Let your nominees know by leaving a comment on their sites.
5. Copy and paste the award image on your site.
Now that I have thanked Karen, I will proceed to tell an unknown fact about myself while trying to keep it relevant to the content of my blog. I’m going to make this a two for one deal. Here’s the first one…this blog is as much for me as it is for you. I write it because it keeps me mindful of the things I need to focus on, it encourages me to continue to expand my own knowledge about myself and the children I work with.
In case that first item wasn’t enough, I’ll throw in a second unknown fact. For fun recently, I got my palm read. The woman who read my palm was actually quite interesting. We had a funny moment when she looked at the side of my hand and her eyes opened wide. She stammered for a moment as she asked me how many children I have. I told her I have two. She asked me if I have any other children that are close to me as if they were my own children and I told her what I do for a living. She started laughing and said that I must care deeply for them because there are many, many children showing up as mine on the side of my palm- more than she could count. I smiled because I know that I do carry many children in my heart and, apparently, on the sides of my hands as well 🙂
Now, to nominate five others. I have been so lucky to find so many good blogs. I know a few that were recently nominated and appropriately so like One Inch of Grace and Mom Meets Blog.
This time, I’ve decided to nominate:
1. dirtyrottenparenting– I especially loved her No Modesty Mother’s Day post.
2. Hike.Blog.Love– If you are an adoptive parent of an older child, do not miss the post she wrote to her “pre-mommy” self- I linked to that one specifically.
3. insaniteen– an honest look at raising teens with varied needs that includes the difficulty of allowing them to feel the consequences of their choices.
4. Mombian– a wonderful resource for LGBT parents
5. Dad Loves Daddy– the Road to King post was so sweet I was holding back tears.
I hope you enjoy these wonderful blogs and thanks again to Karen for the nomination!
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About me
Kate Oliver, LCSW-C (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) has been a clinician working with traumatized and attachment-disturbed children for almost two decades. She is co-owner of A Healing Place, a private practice in Columbia, Maryland, since 2007.
At the beginning of her career, Kate found that while some children responded to traditional child therapy practices, there were a significant number of children who showed little or no improvement in their overall emotional well-being. This led her to seek out specialized training to learn more about attachment, the bond between parents and children, and found that by using attachment-based strategies in addition to treating trauma, even the most challenging children and their parents, saw major, life-changing shifts, not only for the children she was working with, but the parents as well.
Early in her career, Kate was privileged to work as the clinical director for Tamar’s Children, a program that took pregnant, incarcerated women from prison to a treatment facility that worked on teaching the women to bond with and attach to their babies, while also helping the women to heal their own broken attachments, and history of trauma and addiction. This program was internationally recognized for having a successful, evidence-based practice using an attachment-based model. From working with some of the most severely disenfranchised parents, Kate received important information about how to help all parents maintain a happy, healthy relationship with their children.
In 2007, Kate co-founded A Healing Place, a mental health private group practice in Columbia, Maryland, where she focuses on working with families with children who have a history of trauma and/or attachment disturbances. A board certified supervisor, Kate has been an invited presenter to teach continuing education courses for other social workers and psychologists. In her courses, Kate teaches attachment-building techniques and presents about her sub-specialty, working with families headed by gay and lesbian parents. Kate has also worked as a trainer for Building Families for Children, a therapeutic foster care agency.
Kate is a former board member for the organization COLAGE, a non-profit group that works toward community building for people with gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or transgender parents. She is currently a member of Attachment Disorders Maryland, a group that works to educate parents and professionals about working with children with attachment related issues. She is a Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) Practitioner and Educator.
Kate lives in Columbia, Maryland is the mother of two amazing daughters, the partner to a fantastic husband, and the daughter of one mother and two gay dads. She loves to read any book that crosses her path, write (of course), and she recently started dancing again, a passion she has had since her youth.
Kate can be reached by email: helpforyourfamily@gmail.com for questions or you can find her on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/Help4yourfamily.
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