Sandra Gormon-Brown, MSW, LICSW
(509) 990-6419 | sandra@grassrootstherapy.com
WA State License #: LW00006666
- Attachment
- Pediatric Trauma
- Foster Care and Adoption
- Attachment Focused Therapy
- EMDR
Sandra is a Licensed, Independent, Clinical Social Worker and Certified Attachment Focused Therapist with over 25 years of experience serving a broad spectrum of children and families, especially those who have experienced foster care and/or adoption.
Sandra's areas of expertise include best practice treatment of attachment issues, pediatric trauma, trauma sensitive parenting, grief and loss, infant mental health, and pre and post adoption issues (foster, domestic and international).
Sandra received her Master of Social Work from the University of Washington. She has done extensive post graduate work in the areas of attachment, trauma, grief, adoption, child abuse/neglect and infant mental health. She is a graduate of Deborah Gray’s Attachment Focused Therapy program and a regular participant in Deborah’s educational consult group which provides continuing education in the emerging theory and research in the areas of adoption practice, neglect and abuse, prenatal exposure to toxins, development of affect regulation and the treatment of trauma in the specialized populations of foster care and adoption. Sandra utilizes Attachment Focused Therapy, Theraplay®, and EMDR as primary treatment modalities. She is a Registered Circle of Security Parent Educator and a member of the National Association of Social Workers, EMDRIA and ATTACH. She also serves as a Board member and Division Chair for the Washington Association for Children and Families.