Meet Our
Certified Coaches
Meet Our
Certified Coaches
Level III Certified Masters
Lesli Neuenschwander
Carthage, Missouri
Lesli Neuenschwander is a certified Trauma-Responsive Master Coach through Fear to Love. She specializes in discovering ways to build connection and guide children who have experienced early trauma or struggle with challenging behaviors both in the home and in the classroom.
Her education and early childhood background allow opportunity to walk beside teachers who desire a classroom management plan that is free from behavioral charts and reward systems. She has life experience that includes large family dynamics, adoption, foster care, young adult children, death of a child, ministry staff, and community leadership.
Certified Level III Master
Jasmine Perez
West Palm Beach, Florida
Jasmine Perez is a core leader within the Fear to Love ecosystem. She specializes in supporting teens and families navigating aggression, shutdowns, dissociation, isolation, and the complex behaviors that stem from early trauma and chronic stress.
Her work blends parent coaching, adoption-centered support, wraparound experience, and trauma-responsive training to help families understand what’s beneath behavior—not just manage it. Jasmine is also deeply involved in building national programs, trainings, and resources that equip parents and professionals with practical, relationship-centered tools.
Certified Level III Master
Rose Baker
Eureka, California
Rose Baker is a Level III Master with Fear to Love, known for her steady leadership and decades of service to families and youth. Her work spans parenting education, crisis intervention, foster care support, youth independence training, and hands-on guidance for children and teens facing trauma or instability.
With more than 40 years as a foster parent and a lifetime of community involvement, Rose brings a rare blend of experience, compassion, and practical wisdom to every space she leads.
Certified Level III Master
Level II Certified Coaches
Terry Santizo
San Jose, California
Terry Santizo is a certified Trauma-Responsive Parenting Coach through the From Fear to Love™ model. With over 20 years in early childhood education and ministry—including leading First Discoveries Christian Preschool and supporting more than 450 children—Terry brings a Spirit-led, love-based, and deeply compassionate approach.
Her background includes extensive training in Sozo, HeartSync, Art Sozo, and other inner-healing modalities, as well as experience as a Court-Approved Mediator supporting families through high-stress transitions with calm, clarity, and grace.
Certified Level II Coach
Pamela Palmer
Erie, Pennsylvania
Pamela Palmer is an adoptive mom of three with firsthand experience navigating the joys and challenges of foster care and adoption. Her personal journey fuels her passion for helping families understand behavior through connection and compassion.
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and certified Fear 2 Love parent coach, Pam blends her professional training with personal insight to support parents in building safe, connected, and healing-centered homes.
Certified Level II Coach
Nathan White
Eureka, California
Nathan White is a community based mental health worker and currently serves as a crisis stabilization specialist at New Life Discovery Project. He holds a bachelor's degree in social work and brings extensive experience in drug recovery and behavioral therapy along with a strong background in case management.
As a certified Fear to Love instructor and a widowed parent of four, Nathan combines professional expertise with personal insight to foster growth and resilience in the families he serves.
Certified Level II Coach
Lori Keyser-Boswell
Yreka, California
Pastor Lori Keyser-Boswell brings nearly four decades of ministry and mentoring experience to her role as a trauma-informed parenting and spiritual support coach within the Bondify community.
She is a mother, foster parent, and grandparent whose lived experience includes parenting through complex trauma, kinship care, neurodiversity, grief, and spiritual burnout. Her professional background includes years of pastoral leadership, hospice chaplaincy, and training caregivers in high-stress environments to lead with compassion and presence.
Grounded in a theology of grace, her approach weaves together spiritual depth, real-world parenting wisdom, and the Fear to Love philosophy. Known as "Mama Lori" to many, she creates spaces where families, especially those parenting through adversity, feel seen, supported, and spiritually held.
Certified Level II Coach
Michelle Malone
Massapequa Park, New York
Michelle Malone may be a familiar name to participants in the Bondify support communities, where she serves as a Community Support Specialist within the app.
She is the mother of two children, with a parenting journey that includes infertility, IVF, surrogacy, and adoption. Her lived experience also includes supporting a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder, navigating IEP processes, managing high-intensity behaviors, and supporting LGBTQIA+ identity development within the family.
The Fear to Love philosophy has guided her parenting for nearly a decade and continues to inform her professional approach. Raised by her aunt and uncle during her teenage years following significant early-life adversity, she developed a deep understanding of trauma, resilience, and relational healing. These experiences sparked a sustained interest in the human psyche, leading her to extensive independent study, a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, and ongoing training.
Certified Level II Coach
Tom Smith
Napa, California
Tom Smith serves families navigating trauma, loss, and complex parenting with a steady presence shaped by decades of both professional and lived experience.
He holds a Master’s degree in Religious Education from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and spent ten years in youth ministry working closely with both teens and their parents. For over twenty-two years, Tom also served as a funeral director, walking alongside families in the immediate aftermath of loss—an experience that profoundly shaped his capacity for empathy, calm, and emotional attunement during moments of crisis.
Together with his wife, Tom has fostered for more than thirty years and cared for approximately 120 children. He is the father of 7 children, 4 adopted. Tom’s work is grounded in connection, patience, and deep respect for the healing process, offering families support that is both practical and compassionate.
Certified Level II Coach
Christabel Parker
George, Utah
Christa Parker is the founder of Hearts Parenting and an adoptive parent offering trauma-responsive, connection-based support for families after adoption. She is a graduate of the Jai Institute for Parenting and Fear to Love Certified, helping parents understand stress-driven behaviors and respond with calm, confidence, and connection.
My passion for supporting families comes from my own adoption journey. I’ve experienced the deep love adoption brings, along with the confusion, isolation, and overwhelm that can happen when traditional parenting advice doesn’t work.
I know how painful it can feel to question yourself and wonder if you’re doing enough when peace in your home feels far away but I also believe that even small, loving efforts matter and can lead to meaningful change over time. Because of this, I am deeply committed to walking alongside parents with compassion, clarity, and hope, offering practical support that honors both a child’s past and a parent’s heart so homes can become a place of safety, connection, and love.
Certified Level II Coach
Nancy Harrington
Oakland, California
Nancy Harrington knows how hard parenting can be and made even more challenging with the complexities of adoption. She knows deeply it’s not meant to be done in isolation. Bringing our presence and self-awareness to our relationships with our kids is always the way through. That’s where consultation comes in. It was and still is her lifeline in my parenting journey particularly as she's doing it solo.
For this reason, Nancy is dedicated to partnering with families to help uncover the need behind your child’s big behaviors and in helping you be the grounded, connected, loving parent you want to be even in the turmoil. She brings 20 years experience as a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist working with children who have experienced relational trauma and attachment disruptions.
She is passionate about building secure attachment in adoptive families, teaching playful strategies for emotional regulation, and attending to the stress in our children with calm and connection. Also, she's the proud adoptive mother of a magnificent teenager who has taught her time and time again how to slow down, check myself, and bring love.
Certified Level II Coach
Janell Goebel
Carl Junction, Missouri
Certified Level II Coach
Rebecca Hyde
Sacramento, California
Certified Level II Coach
Mark Kraft
Roseville, California
Certified Level II Coach