Andrea holds a master’s degree in Counselling Psychology and has extensive experience as an Early Childhood Mental Health Clinician. She specializes in therapeutic responding to attachment and trauma, particularly focusing on children and youth who have had caregiver losses and placement disruptions. Andrea has worked overseas in orphanages and studied the effects of abuse, neglect and developmental trauma on children of various ages. She is trained in many different therapeutic modalities including EMDR, Parent Child Relationship Therapy and Watch, Wait and Wonder Intervention.

Andrea is an adoptive parent of two teenagers and has therefore experienced firsthand the unique challenges of parenting through adoption. She founded A Child’s Song as a result of her passion for supporting adoptive, foster and all other permanent families in developing strong parent child connections. She is committed to providing adoptive parents the tools they need to be therapeutic parents.

Andrea is the author of two manuals Teaching the Hurt Child: Relationships Between Trauma, Attachment and Learning and Transitioning Children from Foster Care to Adoption as well as two children’s books, My baby brain is loud tonight and Mabel’s Moving. She is also a dynamic keynote speaker and workshop facilitator with extensive experience addressing a wide variety of audiences including parents, professionals and policy makers.

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Harpreet Saini, RSW has joined our team as a Clinical Counselor and brings with her extensive experience in social work and supporting families with a wide range of constellations. She holds a master’s in social work from the University of Toronto and has extensive experience with children and individuals who have experienced trauma and are in crisis. Harpreet has facilitated groups and family centered intervention while offering crisis counselling in moments of stress. Her most recent experience has been with A Child’s Song as an intern where she specialized even further with working with families in a variety of contexts including adoption and permanency support.

Over the past 15 years, Harpreet has been supporting families from an attachment based and culturally sensitive perspective. Her lived experience as a female and POC brings an important level of insight and sensitivity to working with POC and transracial families. Harpreet’s work with children who have had adverse life experiences or trauma has led her to the belief that supporting and strengthening the relationships between children and their primary caregivers is the best way to keep children feeling safe and secure. This Circle of Strength focus inspired her to pursue the role as a Counselor at A Child’s Song.

Harpreet believes in the power of play therapy in allowing children to tell their story and express their feelings and that parent child play therapy is an empowering experience for both the child and the parent. Harpreet has taken additional courses in Play Therapy through the Canadian Association of Play Therapy to support her experience in this area. She has completed level one of EMDR and Lifespan integration, expanding her capacity to be a well-equipped trauma therapist for children and adults.

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Meagan holds a Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology from Trinity Western University. She has specific training in Observed Experiential Integration (OEI) and Lifespan Integration Therapy, two dynamic body-based trauma interventions that are effective in working with people of all ages to provide deep healing.

Meagan is dedicated specifically to the areas of trauma (especially preverbal trauma) and anxiety with a focus on the therapeutic nature of the parent-child relationship. She is effectively able to work with parents to find a greater understanding of the roots of their child’s experiences, to make sense of difficult behaviours and implement strategies that process and minimize trauma induced responses.

Meagan is actively involved in adoption specific research that seeks to find a greater understanding of the unique challenges that adoptees struggle with and the most efficient and meaningful processes that promote healing. She is passionate about presenting workshops for parents and professionals to further their understanding and knowledge base on a variety of topics.

Meagan has benefited from her experiences with overseas orphanage work and realizes that these experiences were formative in developing a passion for working with children who have experienced caregiver disruptions and other relational trauma. She has been blessed with four amazing children and has experienced the joys and challenges of being a parent! Meagan is thrilled to be working with adoptive families and feels privileged to come along side them in their journey.

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