Adoption Friend — Your Friend on the Post-Adoption Journey

Coaching & Training

Support that fits your Family and your Team

Whether you're a parent in the thick of it or an organization that serves adoptive and foster families, there's a path to strength, healing and joy!

1-on-1 Parent Coaching

Personalized coaching for foster, adoptive, kinship and biological parents who are navigating big behaviors, grief, and attachment issues — in person in the Topeka area or by Zoom anywhere.

In-Person Zoom

Classes and Groups

Parenting for Positive Self-Worth and Making Sense of Your Worth classes are available in-person for those in the Topeka area through SENT Topeka, or virtually for 1-on-1 clients.

Group Classes In-Person Open to All Caregivers and Professionals

Training for Systems & Teams

TBRI-informed training for agencies, churches, schools, and care teams who want to become trauma-competent partners to the families they serve.

Staff Training Intro TBRI for Systems and Organizations

Greg, founder of Adoption Friend, smiling in an Adoption Friend branded shirt

About Greg

An Adoptive Dad and a Parent Coach

You are a good parent! But sometimes our children's needs exceed what traditional parenting can provide. As a TBRI Practitioner I empower caregivers with the strategies and capacity that they need for raising kids in a complex world. You are not alone! I've been walking alongside and supporting post-adoption families since 2018. The Principles and Strategies of TBRI helped me to promote healing in the lives of my children and kept me on my feet in the most challenging times.

I have practiced TBRI in public schools, church camps and while navigating the juvenile justice and mental health systems.

TBRI® Practitioner
Making Sense of Your Worth Facilitator
Parenting for Positive Self-Worth Facilitator
Enneagram Coach

What Parents Are Saying

You're not the only one walking this road.

"In the face of my daughter's rejection of me as her mom, I quietly believed attachment work was a lost cause for us. Greg compassionately walked us through how trauma affects our child's brain — and how to respond in healthier ways. I now have tools, language, and hope I didn't have before."

— Adoptive Mom from California

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"My son used to follow me around in a dysregulated state, hitting and kicking, and I felt helpless. What I didn't realize was that he needed co-regulation — and I first needed to learn how to regulate myself. We no longer have those violent outbursts. He now seeks me out for co-regulation regularly and I receive lots of hugs multiple times a day."

— Brooksie, Adoptive Mom from Kansas

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"Life was beyond hard — our son didn't respond to traditional parenting, and it was dividing my wife and me as a couple. Greg introduced us to TBRI-based parenting, something I'd never heard of. My wife and I are closer to being on the same page now. It's not perfect, and we have a long way to go, but I can see real progress — in my relationship with my son, and with my wife."

— Adoptive Dad from North Carolina

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You can be the safe place
your child needs.