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Krista Nelson, LICSW, LMFTKrista serves as the project coordinator for the Wilder Foundation’s five year old Center for Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder within Children’s Residential Services. Funded by the Bush Foundation, The Center’s purpose is to provide clarity and focus to attachment-focused therapy and parenting for children with Reactive Attachment Disorder through offering training and consultation to residential services staff, foster parents and parents and professionals who support attachment traumatized children in the community at large. Krista has twenty years of therapy and social work experience working with children and families going through difficult life transitions. In addition to her work with Wilder, she is in independent practice as a family therapist to adoptive parents and children. Krista specializes in working with survivors of abuse and trauma, children and families in the child protection system and youth in residential, foster and adoption placements with attachment disorder. Krista provides multiple professional and parent focused trainings across Minnesota each year on how to understand, effectively treat or manage daily family life when raising an attachment disordered child. |
LESSONS FROM THE FIELD 2009-2010 The 2009-10 series focuses on Race, Culture, and Children's Mental Health. |
