Deborah D. Gray, LICSW
9 Courses Available
About Deborah D. Gray, LICSW
Deborah D. Gray, LICSW has the honor of helping families to develop close, satisfying relationships after children’s earlier losses, traumas, and/or prenatal exposure to drugs and alcohol. In addition to her therapy practice, Deborah is an author and trainer. She developed and taught the post-graduate certificate program, Attachment/Trauma Focused Therapy (ATFT), which is now available remotely and in modules through Cascadia Training.
Deborah has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from ATTACh (International Association for Training on Attachment and Trauma in Children). She was a Henry Meier Practitioner in Residence at the U of WA School of Social Work. She was core faculty for the Adoption and Foster Care Therapy Post-Graduate Certificate Program at Portland State University for 19 years, teaching on the topics of trauma, grief, attachment, and child welfare.
Deborah served as the attachment consultant for the 5-year Quality Improvement Project for Children’s Administration. She has keynoted numerous State and Non-profit child welfare conference addresses, including the Joint Council of International Children’s Service Conference in Washington DC.
She received her MSW from Syracuse University and MPA in Public Administration (Health Care) from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
Deborah is the author of: *Promoting Healthy Attachments; Attaching through Love, Hugs, and Play; Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma; and Attaching in Adoption. She co-authored Games and Activities for Attaching with Your Child.
Courses by Deborah D. Gray, LICSW
Behavioral Issues and Approaches that Help with Difficult Behaviors. Adapting Homes and Therapies: ATFT Modules 8 & 9
This video teaches behavioral techniques within the context of treating trauma, building better self-regulation, and healthier attachments. The responsibilities of parents are addressed, as well.
Sexual Abuse: Reclaiming a Healthy Sexual Identity: ATFT Module 6
This video will go over attachment-based methods of working with sexual abuse in children and teens. The video will include specific information on working with children who sexually act out. This is a comprehensive talk that includes detailed information on treatment to rebuild a positive identity after sexual trauma.
Taking Care of Ourselves: ATFT Module 10
Families tend to get exhausted when parenting children who have trauma and loss issues. This module will go over some of the strategies that help families to stay balanced and to thrive.
Attachments Patterns: Their Connections to Well-being, Emotional Intelligence, and Stress Regulation: ATFT Module #1
In this introductory class Deborah Gray describes patterns of attachment and the belief systems that are formed within early and ongoing relationships. This class covers the essential emotional reactions and behaviors that are core to each attachment pattern.
Creating Healthy Patterns of Attachment, Including Needs of Teens: ATFT Module #3
Attachment in teens is a topic that requires special focus. Teens need to stay connected and nurtured while they separate their identities through normal individuation. This video gives techniques for enhancing teen attachments. We will also discuss limit setting and parenting approaches that are evidenced based as benefiting teen development.
Effects of Trauma and Restoration after Trauma and Loss by Developmental Stage: ATFT Module #5
The video module goes over emotional development at each stage, with methods of constructing more positive beliefs. This section will help therapists to sharpen their focus for assessment and treatment.
Moving Children Between Families. Grief and Loss: ATFT Module #7
This video provides move schedules for infants, children, and teens. It will go over ways to prepare children for moves. We will discuss grief and ambiguous loss in children and teens. Michael and Kristin Berry join for a discussion on self-compassion and their own experiences with ambiguous grief.
Orchestrating the Tasks of Therapy: Treatment Planning for Attachment, Trauma, and Loss: ATFT Module #2
This module will describe how to set up a treatment plan for children, making certain that they have enough connection and emotional resource to do trauma or loss work. We will go over evidence based, essential tasks in trauma and loss work with children.
The Attachment Assessment: Completing It and Using It in Therapy: ATFT Module 4
It is positive and powerful in sessions to be able to focus on specific behaviors, connecting them to what they mean and how people are feeling. When people are asked to try different behaviors in sessions, these real-time experiences change their views of the other.