Elhardt Family Wellness, LLC

About Elhardt Family Wellness, LLC

Why Do We Exist?

Elhardt Family Wellness is a counseling and psychoeducational practice dedicated to supporting children, families, and caregivers impacted by trauma, adversity, and complex life transitions. We specialize in working with those involved in the foster care system: including foster parents, adoptive families, biological parents, kinship caregivers, and the professionals who support them.

Our work is grounded in developmental psychology, attachment science, and trauma-informed care. We understand that foster care and adoption are not single events, but ongoing experiences that affect children’s nervous systems, identity development, relationships, and sense of safety. We also recognize that caregivers (whether foster, adoptive, or biological) often carry immense emotional, systemic, and relational stress while navigating these realities.

What Do We Offer?

At Elhardt Family Wellness, we provide individual counseling, family support, parent coaching, and psychoeducational resources designed to meet families where they actually are, not where systems assume they should be. Our services are especially well-suited for children and caregivers facing challenges such as trauma histories, attachment disruptions, behavioral dysregulation, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and identity-related concerns common in foster and adoptive experiences.

We believe healing happens best in the context of safe, informed relationships. That means supporting not only the child, but the adults who care for them by equipping caregivers with practical tools, realistic expectations, and a deeper understanding of how trauma impacts behavior, emotions, and development over time.

Who Do We Serve?

Whether you are a foster parent seeking support, an adoptive family navigating post-adoption challenges, a biological parent working toward stability and healing, or a professional looking for trauma-informed collaboration, Elhardt Family Wellness offers a thoughtful, evidence-based, and compassionate approach to care.

Our mission is simple: to help families build stability, connection, and resilience so that healing is possible not just in therapy sessions, but in everyday life.

What we offer

What We Offer at Elhardt Family Wellness

At Elhardt Family Wellness, we walk alongside families navigating trauma, attachment, and emotional growth. Our services support healing, deepen connection, and bring clarity to the hardest parenting moments.

Here is how we can help:

Clinical Mental Health Counseling Services
Counseling for children in foster care and children adopted from foster care who have experienced significant trauma, including sexual trauma and PTSD. Counseling and support for adoptive families is available as well.

Trauma-Informed Parenting Support
Compassionate, practical tools for parenting kids from hard places, without shame, fear, or burnout.

Emotional Literacy Tools for Children
Developmentally appropriate printables, games, and guides that help children name, express, and manage big feelings.

Foster and Adoptive Family Guidance
Real-world support from people who have lived it, tailored to the specific challenges foster, adoptive, and kinship families face.

Behavior and Attachment Consultations
Get to the root of difficult behavior with insight grounded in brain science, trauma theory, and attachment needs.

Psychoeducation and Parent Coaching
One-on-one and group support that helps caregivers understand trauma, regulation, and child development, and put that understanding to work at home.

Therapeutic Resources and Workshops
Printable tools plus in-person and virtual trainings that help families, educators, and professionals grow together.

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Curriculum
Engaging, research-backed SEL resources designed for preschool and early elementary learners.

Child Development Expertise and Strategy
Custom strategies that meet your child where they are, not where a textbook says they should be.

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