Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)

Mindy Davis, LICSW

Mindy Davis, LICSW is a Clinician in Private Practice serving primarily children 0-6 years old.  She also provides Clinical and Reflective Supervision in the community to various professionals serving children 0-6.  Mindy currently is participating in meetings to help launch Clark County’s Safe Baby Court. Mindy also is a trainer for Attachment Vitamins (parenting program) and the ASQ-3 and ASQ-SE2. In the past,  Mindy has worked as a Clinician and Clinical Supervisor in community mental health for 20 years.   She has presented at statewide Conferences and locally in the Vancouver area on Mitigating the Effects of Toxic Stress and Trauma in Children 0-6 years old. 

Haruko Watanabe, MA, LMHC, IMH-E®

Haruko Watanabe, MA, LMHC, IMH-E® identifies as a cisgendered woman and an immigrant from Japan, who is committed to promoting healing-centered work in communities and organizations through building relationships.  Haruko began studying parent-child interactions in 1998 under the mentorship of the late Dr. Kathryn Barnard.  Over the last 20+ years, Haruko has worked with Early Supports for Infants and Toddlers (ESIT), early care and learning, child-welfare, and community mental health systems in King County, seeking to understand the impact of adversity and individual differences on early relationships and child development. She has partnered with other champions in the community to advocate for system-level transformation on behalf of young children families.  Her clinical work and workforce development efforts have been influenced by her lived experiences and teaching from the communities she has served, many of whom are low-income and families of color, as well as her ongoing learning from her ancestors, mentors, and colleagues.  In addition to her primary work as the Clinical Director at Cooper House, Haruko trains Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health clinicians across Washington State and is a Washington State trainer on Child-Parent Psychotherapy. She is a former Board Member for the Center on Early Relational Health (formerly known as Washington Association for Infant Mental Health).

Monica Oxford, MSW, PhD

Dr. Monica Oxford is a Research Professor in Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing at the University of Washington and the Executive Director of the Barnard Center for Infant Mental Health and Development. Her research focuses on early parenting and child developmental outcomes for vulnerable families living in challenging environments. Dr. Oxford’s interest is in how context, parenting, and child characteristics combine to inform particular patterns of child outcomes and how intervention services promote both caregiver and child well-being. Dr. Oxford is also involved in training social service providers throughout Washington on infant mental health, strengths-based practice, and how providers can support caregiver-child dyadic interaction from an attachment-based perspective.

Dr. Oxford is principal investigator of four NIH grants; the first three are aimed at examining the impact of Promoting First Relationships® (PFR: Kelly et al, 2008). PFR is a brief 10-week home visiting program that is strengths and relationship-based video feedback program. These three studies are randomized control trials in three populations: one RCT for parents involved with child protective services, one RCT for reunified birth families, and one RCT for American Indian families in a rural setting. The fourth NIH grant is aimed at addressing the interaction between family, school, child, and contextual risk such as poverty and early child developmental outcomes Dr. Oxford is also co-principal investigator on three NIH funded RCT testing the effectiveness of PFR in three additional populations (foster care, perinatal mental health setting, and American Indian rural setting).

Joyce Yang, MSW

Joyce is the Program Manager responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Advanced Clinical Training (ACT) Program. She graduated from Seattle University with a Bachelor of Administration degree in Management. She later received her Master of Social Work degree from the University of Chicago. She spent the early part of her career working at a social service and immigrant rights non-profit that serves community members from 15 months to end-of-life as a Development & Outcomes Manager.