Michelle Williams-Alden, LPC, MFT

​I am passionate about helping YOU bring healing and hope to our nation's most vulnerable children--those who have been traumatized by abuse, neglect or abandonment. I have a big heart for kids, especially those who are often overlooked or misunderstood. I know this first-hand, as I was once a hurt child, separated from my siblings and later adopted. I believe that a child's family is key in restoring hope and safety and resolving past hurts and disappointments. I have spent years studying best practices for children and trauma, learning about the incredible healing power of the brain, and working in the trenches with families in crisis. From this great wealth of information, I have developed the Family First Program (FFP)--an on-line training program and intensive in-home program for families with very challenging kids. As a parent, YOU are the best healing agent for your child. Let me (or an agency team I train) show you how to bring peace--and a brighter future--back into your home. 


​​Licensed Professional Counselor
Marriage & Family Counselor, Adoption & Attachment specialist, Author, Doctoral student
Curriculum Vitae for Michelle

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More about Michelle's experience - to better serve you

• Doctorate Program in Human Services - current
• Adoption advocate, trainer, speaker
• In foster care and adopted herself as a child; adopted a teenage son
• Trauma-informed
• Brain-researched
• Published author (3 books - about an adoptive family)
• Has spoken to government agencies, schools, private groups, and adoptive and foster parents
• Agency trainer to help families with emotionally disturbed or traumatized children
• Family Trauma In Home Specialist Training/Certification
• Equine Assisted Psychotherapy certified
• Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute’s Angels in Adoption™  for Idaho (2012)
• Idaho Business Women of the Year (2011)
• Counselor for 12 years at a summer camp for abused kids
• Director of programming for at-risk kids for 10 years - Outstanding Service Award - Isaiah’s Ranch (The Isaiah Foundation, Inc) (2007)

Article about Michelle in Christian Living Magazine 
November/December 2020