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Parenting Professionals

Parenting Professionals

The following professionals or associations have indicated that their work aligns with API's Eight Principles of Parenting in their profession. We do not endorse any of these professionals and encourage you to research them fully to ensure that they are the right fit for your family.

We welcome your application to be listed as a professional resource if you're a parenting professional or an organization that works with parents in alignment with API's Principles.

United States

Kentucky

Tasha Miller

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Pikeville, KY
United States

Contact

Massachusetts

Karen Walant, PhD

Author, Counselor/ Social Worker/ Therapist, Parenting Coach, Public Speaker

Area of specialty

Psychotherapy, Dr. Walant is an expert on attachment and intimacy
Dr. Walant is a lecturer in the areas of attachment research and neuroscience, empathy, and parenting

Phillipston, MA
United States

Contact

Phone: (203) 438-8602

Member of API's Board of Directors

Maryland

Alicia Barmon, LCPC, CYT

Counselor/ Social Worker/ Therapist

Area of specialty

Compassionate counseling for individuals, families and couples. Parenting Support, Relationship support, trauma, addiction, mind-body-spirit.

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256 W Patrick St
Frederick, MD 21701
United States

Contact

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Phone: 617-319-1162

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Melanie Tarr, IBCLC

IBCLC, Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Lactation
Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Successfully Nurtured Collective

Millington, MD
United States

Contact

Phone: 410-656-4048

Online classes available. Our collective meets virtually. Monthly memberships are just $20 a month. Fridays are focused on caring for newborns and Lactation, Mondays and Thursdays are more focused on attachment parenting. We can provide individule parenting modules for small groups. 

Maine

Rod Kochtitzky M.Div

Counselor/ Social Worker/ Therapist

Area of specialty

Imago Relationship Therapy

Portland, ME
United States

Contact

Phone: 615-385-3838

Former API Advisory Board Member

Montana

Crystal Tetzel, MS, LCPC

Counselor/ Social Worker/ Therapist, Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

AHPP Online Parenting Educator
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Belgrade, MT
United States

Contact

North Carolina

Jessica Altemara, IBCLC

Consultant, IBCLC

Area of specialty

Lactation Consultant

Chapel Hill, NC
United States

Contact

Phone: 919-260-7202

I am a lactation consultant for the Triangle Area in NC who does primarily virtual and home visits. I am passionate about providing intuitive trauma informed care and finding the root cause of infant feeding struggles. I love helping parents with therapeutic bottle feeding, when bottle feeding is needed, as well. I believe in the biological norm as a compass for establishing breastfeeding. I practice attachment parenting in my own life and found the benefits it provides.

Victoria Brown

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Walstonburg, NC
United States

Contact

Nebraska

Jenny Sievers, MS, LIMHP, LADC

Counselor/ Social Worker/ Therapist

Area of specialty

Attachment disorders, and developmental trauma

Lincoln, NE
United States

Contact

Phone: 402-474-1511

New Jersey

Cindy Terranova, M.S.Ed, IBCLC, CPDT, CD, CBE

Consultant, Doula, Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Doula, Childbirth, Parenting Educator, Birth Education, Lactation Consultant, DTI Doula Trainings

Tree of Life

Washington, NJ 07882
United States

Contact

Phone: 908-509-1279

I’m a long time AP parent of 7 and a birth & lactation professional. I love helping families of all genders, sexual identities, and family structure on their journey to and through parenthood. I offer Lactation Consulting, Childbirth Education, Doula Services, and Doula Trainings as well as other services for parenting people. 

Milli Schaeffer

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Medford, NJ
United States

Contact

New York

Colleen Cavallo

Doula, Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Childbirth Educator; Doula; Nurturing Parenting Program Facilitator

Utica, NY
United States

Contact

Phone: 315-292-4874

Lara Goodman, LCSW

Area of specialty

individual psychotherapy, couples and family therapy

New York, NY
United States

Contact

Phone: 917-526-0084

Meredith Silversmith, MA, LMFT

Counselor/ Social Worker/ Therapist

Area of specialty

Couples Therapy, Relationship Coaching, Specializing in the transition to parenthood

Nassau Wellness

Garden City, NY
United States

Contact

Phone: 516-350-0975

Ruby Sibal

Nurse, Parenting Coach

Area of specialty

Newborn care; parent coaching

New York, NY
United States

Contact

Phone: 347-601-6931

Tara Bulin, LCSW

Area of specialty

Area of Speciality: Trauma/PTSD, Pregnancy and Birth Related Trauma, Attachment Parenting, Distance/SKYPE Therapy

Setauket- East Setauket, NY
United States

Contact

Phone: 631-682-5931

Therese Watson

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

New York, NY
United States

Contact

Ohio

Dawn Friedman MSEd

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Parenting Educator

Child Anxiety Support

Columbus, OH
United States

Contact

Phone: 614-301-8030

Freeing families from the trap of child anxiety

Martha Portman

Counselor/ Social Worker/ Therapist, Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Therapy
Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Stow, OH
United States

Contact

Ryan Witkowski

Counselor/ Social Worker/ Therapist, Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Therapy
Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Stow, OH
United States

Contact

Oregon

Patricia Mackie, LPC Intern

Counselor/ Social Worker/ Therapist

Area of specialty

Marriage Counseling, Parenting

Tualatin, OR
United States

Contact

Phone: 503-308-1159

 

 

 

 

 

Patricia Mackie, MCP

Area of specialty

Marriage Education, Attachment Parenting

Tualatin, OR
United States

Contact

Sara Cole

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Adoptive Parent Coaching

Sara Cole Parent Coach

4819 S. Oregon St
Seattle, OR
United States

Contact

Phone: 307-206-5151

I help adoptive parents create, grow, and maintain a deeper more loving relationship with their child.

Pennsylvania

Dawn Friedman MSEd

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Parenting Educator

Child Anxiety Support

Lords Valley, PA
United States

Contact

Phone: 614-301-8030

Dawn has her masters in clinical mental health counseling and works with parents to teach them how to free their family from the trap of child anxiety.

http://instagram.com/dawnfriedmanmsed

http://linkedin.com/in/dawnfriedman

 

South Carolina

Heather Artushin

Counselor/ Social Worker/ Therapist, Parenting Educator, Public Speaker

Area of specialty

AHPP Online Parenting Educator

Southern Parent

Charleston, SC
United States

Contact