The team behind the NeuroRelational Framework

Carole-Anne is an infant and early childhood psychiatrist who has provided assessment and treatment for infants and young children and their families for over 30 years in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She was the medical lead of Infant Preschool Services at CASA Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health and of the Autism Clinic at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital. She currently works in private practice and is Co-Director at the ElmTree Clinic, an outpatient psychiatry clinic for infants, young children, and their families.

Carole-Anne completed medical school at the University of Alberta, adult psychiatry training at Boston University and child psychiatry training and a fellowship in infant mental health at the University of Toronto. She is passionate about teaching and is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Alberta. Carole Anne is a past president and founding member of the Alberta Association for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. She is collaborating with agencies, educators, and health and mental health care providers in Alberta to incorporate the NeuroRelational Framework into practice in her role as faculty, trainer, and mentor for the NRF.

Jennifer is a behavioral health professional providing mental health services to children, adolescents, and their families for the past 20 years. She is credentialed as a licensed psychologist, school psychologist, and is versed in Applied Behavior Analysis. Jennifer has an extensive background in studying and treating complex trauma and the effects of toxic stress, studying under national experts such as Dr. Dan Hughes, who is the founder of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy; Dr. Elizabeth Warner, the developer of SMART; and Dr. Constance Lillas who is the co-developer to the NeuroRelational Framework (NRF). 

Jennifer has experience working in behavioral health settings such as acute psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers, intensive out patient, and outpatient agencies. She has also spent periods of time in school settings working from early intervention/infant mental health through 12th grade. While she engages in on-going direct services, her 20 years of experience allows her to teach, train, and consult in order to grow the next generation of behavioral health professionals versed in the effects of toxic stress and ways to heal from such effects.

Betty taught in K-12 schools for 14 years in Seattle, The Dominican Republic, Kuwait, and Tanzania and became an infant and childhood mental health specialist at Navos in 2014. She now works privately as a parent educator and coach for domestic violence shelters and family court dependency cases; reflective consultant for home-visiting agencies; and Interaction Specialist in her practice, ALTA: Alternative Learning and Therapeutic Avenues, where she works with individuals seeking relationship help with children, partners, and themselves.

Betty trains on Facilitating Attuned Interactions (the FAN) with Cooper Houseand provides equity, trauma-informed care, and self-care trainings using the NeuroRelational Framework for K-12 teachers, early childhood educators, and therapists around the state.

Betty received her BA from The Evergreen State College in 1992, her Masters In Teaching from Seattle University in 1999, and her Masters of Science in Mental Health Counseling in 2014. She is endorsed by the Washington State Infant Mental Health Association and faculty advisor for the NeuroRelational Framework Institute.

Jessica is an experienced NRF trainer who has provided over 100 NRF trainings and presentations including Zero to Three, WAIMH, and is the primary trainer for Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.  Jessica was the lead therapist in the NRF court team pilot project at Edelman’s Children’s Court in Los Angeles. She has contributed to many NRF curricula and uses the NRF as licensed psychotherapist to provide neurodevelopmentally informed and individualized care for children and families. She is endorsed in California as an Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist and Reflective Practice Facilitator II.

Jessica has been trained in Child-Parent psychotherapy, a relationship and play-based therapy with a strong evidence-based foundation for the treatment of trauma and family stressors. She has developed a unique treatment for children with Selective Mutism by adapting the dominant evidenced-based practice using the NRF principles. This customized approach tailored to each child’s unique stressor triggers and resiliency has an extraordinarily high success rate. Her specialized Dual-Masters education provides an advanced foundation in applied child development and clinical social work.

Jessica is passionate about working with families and children. She loves training across diverse sectors and is grateful her professional journey led her to Dr Connie Lillas and the NRF in 2009.

At the Child Development Center at Marshfield Medical Center, Traci leads a multi-disciplinary team working to identify, understand and treat complex neuro-developmental disorders. Her team strives to integrate the complexities of early development, individual differences and relationships into the assessment and treatment process of every child and family and to promote lasting and positive growth and change. Traci provides supervision and training to clinicians throughout the Marshfield Medical Center and the Marshfield Clinic pediatric residency training program. She received her DIRFloortime® certificate in 2009 and joined the senior faculty at the Profectum Foundation in 2014. Over her career as a pediatrician, neurologist and developmental specialist,

Traci has presented at numerous local and national pediatric, neurologic and developmental conferences and is currently teaching at Profectum.