A Child's Song Support Services

08/25/2026

A Child’s Song is closing our BC and MB offices for the week before back to school. We wish you and your family a peaceful and sunny finish to the summer. Our team will be back September 8, refreshed and happy to see you again either in office or online.

08/23/2026

I’m really excited to offer a NEW course for any professional (social worker, counsellor, psychologist, case manager, program director or any other adoption/foster care professional) who is really wanting to go deeper in their learning of safe and developmentally appropriate interventions for children and youth who have experienced complex trauma. 💚

This course goes beyond the traditional trauma teaching and delves into each stage of a child’s development and how missed experiences show up later on in specific behaviors and relational patterns. 💚

Through this framework you will learn powerful interventions that I have tested over the past twenty years in working with families. What I have learned is that it is so important we don’t ask kids to do things, perform or behave differently when they don’t have foundational skills or experiences to be successful. 💚

Knowing how to assess appropriately and offer interventions in a strategic manner that build missed skills from the earliest stages of development is how we help kids heal and move forward. 💚

If this course sounds like what you need in this stage of your career and learning please find the link to a full course description in the bio. 💚

Spaces are limited to ensure that discussions meet the needs of participants to fully integrate the new material into their current practise.💚

Andrea

Are You Supporting Children and Families Impacted by Early Trauma? This 12-week online professional course is designed for clinicians, social workers, adoption and foster care professionals, and other helping professionals seeking a deeper understanding of developmental trauma and its impact on chil...

08/12/2026

You don’t have to carry this alone. 💚

Parenting a child with developmental trauma asks more of you than most people will ever understand.
You love your child deeply. You have fought for them, advocated for them, learned everything you can, and remained committed through challenges you never imagined. Yet there are days when you feel exhausted, isolated, discouraged, or overwhelmed. You may wonder if anyone truly understands what life is like for you. 💚

This group was created for mothers just like you.
It is a place where you can speak honestly about your experience without fear of judgment or needing to explain yourself. A place where your love for your child and the complexity of your journey can both be true. A place where your wellbeing matters, too. 💚

This group is for you if...

*You are parenting a child with developmental trauma through adoption, foster care, kinship care or any other form of permanency.

*You often feel emotionally and physically exhausted by the demands of parenting.

*Friends, family, or even professionals don’t always understand your reality.

*You notice your child’s trauma affecting your own nervous system and emotional wellbeing.

*You want practical tools to help you navigate the challenges of parenting while caring for yourself.

*You long to connect with other mothers who truly understand this journey.

*You miss feeling like yourself and want to reconnect with who you are beyond parenting.

Link to more information and registration is in the comments
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07/15/2026

FREE ONLINE SUMMER EVENT with ACS 💚

Join mentor and speaker Parker Johnson for an intimate, lived-experience conversation that pulls back the curtain on his journey. Andrea Chatwin, adoptive parent and agency founder will guide the interview drawing from Parker’s experiences both past and present: personal childhood reflections, adolescent difficulties, family of origin history, being raised in a white community current work in community, and with youth. 💚

This conversation will leave participants with a deeper level of insight as well as practical suggestions of how to move forward in this complex parenting journey. We look forward to sharing this unique experience with anyone parenting BIPOC children and youth in a transracial family. 💚

Link to register for this free event is in the comments 💚

04/30/2026

I’m so excited to talk about Healing Big Hurts 💚 on Friday May 22 in TORONTO! A big THANK YOU to for hosting this event.

If you are a parent raising kids with developmental trauma or a professional that supports these families you won’t went to miss this author talk! Aspiring non-fiction authors who want to know more about the writing process from inspiration to publication please join us. We will have lots of time for Q&A!

***Link to register is in the comments***

03/17/2026

Parenting Developmental Trauma: 12 Week Online Course with Live Zoom Discussions

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
How trauma disrupts cognitive, emotional, social, and neurological development
The reasons or missed skills behind the behavior—so you stop feeling confused, triggered, or terrified that things might get worse.
A framework for understanding your child’s multiple developmental ages and how they impact behavior and attachment.
Therapeutic ways to respond to defiance, lying, aggression, and other harmful behaviors.
How to build trust, safety, and connection—even when it feels impossible.
How to create a personalized parenting plan to meet your child where they are, rather than where their chronological age expects them to be.

THIS COURSE WILL HELP YOU:
✔ Understand your child’s behavior & ways of interacting with the world through a trauma lens

✔ Respond instead of react—using calm, intentional, therapeutic tools that have been planned.

✔ Shift out of survival mode into a sense of confidence in responses to complex issues.

✔ Build your child’s sense of self, safety, and trust in YOU!

✔ Feel more confident, less alone, and more equipped to meet daily challenges.

Link to register is in our bio!

03/08/2026

Busy parent who struggles to find time to read? We got you! Healing Big Hurts is available in audio wherever you purchase your audiobooks! Now you can listen during your endless driving time or plug in your headphones while walking the dog. Happy listening! 💚

03/05/2026

Join this free workshop hosted by Belonging Network and hear Andrea Chatwin talk about connecting with our tweens and teens with developmental trauma.

This two-hour workshop offers a supportive and informative space for parents raising tweens and teens with developmental trauma. Many young people with trauma histories struggle with asynchronous development, which can leave caring adults feeling baffled by their choices, reactions, or emotional int...

03/04/2026

Check out these free events with Belonging Network and Andrea Chatwin.

Exciting news! ✨

Andrea Chatwin, founder of A Child's Song Support Services, trauma therapist, and adoptive parent, is joining us for a series of online events this spring.

📚 March 5: Author Talk: Healing Big hurts
7 to 8 p.m. | Online | Free
Andrea shares the story behind her new book and talks about what families can do before starting trauma therapy. There are only a few spots left for this session!

🤝 March 10: Face to Face Connections: Online parent meetup
7 to 8:30 p.m. | Online | Free
A relaxed space for adoptive and permanency parents and caregivers to connect. Andrea will join this month’s session to take part in the conversation.

👬 March 18: Waiting Parents
5 to 6 p.m. | Online | Free
An online discussion group for waiting parents to connect and share experiences. Andrea will join as a guest speaker to share insight on preparing during the waiting phase.

🧠 April 9: Parenting Teens and Tweens with Developmental Trauma
7 to 9 p.m. | Online | Free
A two-hour workshop led by Andrea. She’ll cover the common challenges families often experience and share strategies for responding with connection, empathy, and felt safety.

🎁 Bonus: everyone who attends will be entered into a draw to win a copy of Healing Big Hurts, with one entry for each event you attend.

02/28/2026

This is a special opportunity for a small number of teen girls to work with Lilli, our clinical intern, in group therapy setting. This is an in person group held at our Surrey, BC office. Participants will have opportunities to connect with other youth who share similar experiences while learning about the brain body connection. 💚

Skills and strategies will be explored and practised in ways that feel good for teens. Each evening will be structured to provide a combination of learning new ideas, sharing experiences and trying new skills. 💚

Email [email protected] for more information! 💚