Deborah Gray

MPA. LICSW.

@Nurturing Attachments

Deborah Gray, MPA, 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 a trainer and has authored the post-graduate certificate program, ATTACHMENT/TRAUMA-FOCUSED THERAPY (ATFT), which is available both in-person and streaming in Fall, 2022.

Deborah was a Practitioner in Residence at the U of WA School of Social Work. She taught 19 years in Post-graduate Certificate Programs at the University of WA and Portland State University on the topics of trauma, grief, attachment, and child welfare. She holds an MPA in Public Administration (Health Care), Maxwell School/Syracuse University.

Deborah authored: Promoting Healthy Attachments; Attaching through Love, Hugs, and Play; Nurturing Adoptions; and Attaching in Adoption. She co-authored, with Megan Clarke, Games and Activities for Attaching with Your Child.

In 2015 Deborah was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Training on Attachment and Trauma in Children. [email protected]