Nicole Rouleau is the founder of Igniting Your Mind and an executive function specialist with more than 23 years of experience supporting children, teens, young adults, and families. Her work helps families understand what is happening beneath challenges with motivation, emotional regulation, frustration tolerance, organization, follow-through, and independence.

Nicole’s approach goes beyond planners, reminders, and traditional organizational strategies. She focuses on the foundational skills that drive executive functioning, including self-awareness, internal language, inhibition, working memory, emotional regulation, and self-monitoring, while helping parents understand how everyday communication, expectations, boundaries, and routines can strengthen these skills at home.

Through coaching, parent education, professional development, and speaking, Nicole helps adults shift from simply managing behavior and getting kids through the next task to intentionally building the skills children need to become more capable, confident, and independent.

Timothy J. Eirich is an honors graduate of the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law. At Loyola, Tim was as a Philip H. Corboy Fellow (member of the National Trial Team), a Curt N. Rodin Fellow in advocacy, and a Civitas Childlaw Fellow. Tim was also an associate editor for the Children's Legal Rights Journal. Tim received his undergraduate degree from Santa Clara University where he majored in English and was a captain of the NCAA Division 1 Crew Team. Tim focuses his practice on adoption, child welfare, and guardianship cases. Tim represents prospective adoptive parents, foster parents, relatives, birth parents, and juveniles charged with delinquent acts. Tim is an experienced litigator who has tried over twenty-five jury trials, litigated dozens of contested hearings, and has argued in the front of both the Colorado Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. Tim litigated the ground-breaking case, both at the trial level and before the Colorado Supreme Court, that addressed the rights of foster parents and other caregivers in dependency and neglect cases. Tim has also received a number of awards recognizing his work. In 2012, Tim received the Excellence in Practice Award for a Juvenile Law Attorney at the Colorado Summit for Childen Youth and Families. In 2014, the Colorado State Foster Parent Association honored Tim with the Champion Award for work and efforts on behalf of Colorado’s foster parents. Also, in 2014, the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute awarded Tim the prestigious Angels in Adoption Award for his work in adoption and positive child welfare practices. Tim has handled dozens of private, public, and contested adoptions and has been recognized as a Fellow with the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. Tim has lectured frequently on the rights of foster parents and the child welfare system and is a regular presenter for the Colorado State Foster Parent Association. In addition to training foster parents and relative caregivers, Tim teaches trial skills to fellow attorneys as an instructor for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA). Prior to joining the Grob & Eirich, LLC, Tim was the Deputy Director of the Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center where he litigated some of the center's highest profile cases; represented foster parents, prospective adoptive parents, relative caregivers and juveniles; and supervised a multi-disciplinary staff of attorneys and social workers who served as guardians ad litem for abused and neglected children in Denver Juvenile Court. Prior to his time with the Children's Law Center, Tim was a trial attorney with the Office of the Colorado Public Defender where he represented adults and juveniles charged with felony offenses.

Robyn Gobbel, MSW, has 20 years of practice as a family and child therapist, specializing in complex trauma, attachment, and adoption. While she is no longer practicing as a therapist, Robyn’s diverse clinical practice and training creates the foundation of her work and includes EMDR (including EMDR adapted for children with attachment trauma), Somatic Experiencing, Theraplay, Trust Based Relational Intervention®, The Alert Program® and Yogapeutics Aerial Yoga Level 1 Teacher Training. Robyn has expertise in the field of relational neuroscience, including interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory and polyvagal theory. Robyn consults, teaches, and trains extensively throughout the US.  She previously served as an instructor for the Foundations of Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate Program at Portland Community College as well as with the Adoptive & Foster Family Therapy Post-Graduate Certificate Program.  Robyn has served on the working board of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies (GAINS). Robyn is the host of The Baffling Behavior Show podcast and the author of Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies that Really Work (Jessica Kingsley Publishers). 

Robyn Gobbel, MSW, has 20 years of practice as a family and child therapist, specializing in complex trauma, attachment, and adoption. While she is no longer practicing as a therapist, Robyn’s diverse clinical practice and training creates the foundation of her work and includes EMDR (including EMDR adapted for children with attachment trauma), Somatic Experiencing, Theraplay, Trust Based Relational Intervention®, The Alert Program® and Yogapeutics Aerial Yoga Level 1 Teacher Training. Robyn has expertise in the field of relational neuroscience, including interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory and polyvagal theory. Robyn consults, teaches, and trains extensively throughout the US.  She previously served as an instructor for the Foundations of Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate Program at Portland Community College as well as with the Adoptive & Foster Family Therapy Post-Graduate Certificate Program.  Robyn has served on the working board of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies (GAINS). Robyn is the host of The Baffling Behavior Show podcast and the author of Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies that Really Work (Jessica Kingsley Publishers). 

Robyn Gobbel, MSW, has 20 years of practice as a family and child therapist, specializing in complex trauma, attachment, and adoption. While she is no longer practicing as a therapist, Robyn’s diverse clinical practice and training creates the foundation of her work and includes EMDR (including EMDR adapted for children with attachment trauma), Somatic Experiencing, Theraplay, Trust Based Relational Intervention®, The Alert Program® and Yogapeutics Aerial Yoga Level 1 Teacher Training. Robyn has expertise in the field of relational neuroscience, including interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory and polyvagal theory. Robyn consults, teaches, and trains extensively throughout the US.  She previously served as an instructor for the Foundations of Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate Program at Portland Community College as well as with the Adoptive & Foster Family Therapy Post-Graduate Certificate Program.  Robyn has served on the working board of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies (GAINS). Robyn is the host of The Baffling Behavior Show podcast and the author of Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies that Really Work (Jessica Kingsley Publishers). 

Jennifer is an accomplished mediator with 20 years experience.  After graduating from Law School, Jennifer began her mediation career mediating workplace conflict, negotiating contracts, family conflicts, and other community disputes.  Over the years, Jennifer began to concentrate on the family dynamic and the inherent conflict therein.

In her capacity as a certified mediator, Jennifer utilizes restorative mediation (restorative justice and mediation) to address conflict in an innovative way. Her approach is a specialized avenue to conflict resolution that integrates therapeutic principles and restorative principals  into the mediation process.  Unlike traditional mediation, which might focus solely on negotiating practical settlements, Jennifer guides people to delve deeper. It acknowledges and addresses the underlying emotional dynamics, communication patterns, past hurts, and individual needs that often fuel and sustain conflict.

A passionate advocate for children and increasing awareness about the foster care system, Liz is the author of The Extraordinary Story of No Ordinary Liz—her latest children’s book—as well as No Ordinary Liz (now in its second printing) and Growing Up in The Care of Strangers, which together tell her remarkable journey as a foster child. A passionate advocate for children and raising awareness about the foster care system, she has been a frequent motivational speaker for various organizations and has shared her story on numerous podcasts, radio shows, and TV programs. She actively volunteers within her community and serves on the board of Fostering Success. In her free time, Liz enjoys spontaneous road trips to new and adventurous destinations, blogging, meeting new people, exploring the open water, and embracing all that life has to offer.

Robyn Gobbel, MSW, has 20 years of practice as a family and child therapist, specializing in complex trauma, attachment, and adoption. While she is no longer practicing as a therapist, Robyn’s diverse clinical practice and training creates the foundation of her work and includes EMDR (including EMDR adapted for children with attachment trauma), Somatic Experiencing, Theraplay, Trust Based Relational Intervention®, The Alert Program® and Yogapeutics Aerial Yoga Level 1 Teacher Training. Robyn has expertise in the field of relational neuroscience, including interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory and polyvagal theory. Robyn consults, teaches, and trains extensively throughout the US.  She previously served as an instructor for the Foundations of Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate Program at Portland Community College as well as with the Adoptive & Foster Family Therapy Post-Graduate Certificate Program.  Robyn has served on the working board of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies (GAINS). Robyn is the host of The Baffling Behavior Show podcast and the author of Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies that Really Work (Jessica Kingsley Publishers). 

Amber Chiapetto is a foster care advocate, speaker, and creator who uses her lived experience to bring honesty, compassion, and accountability to conversations about foster care. After being returned to the foster care system as a teenager following a 12-year adoption, Amber began sharing her story online to give a voice to aged-out foster youth and push for meaningful foster care reform. What started as vulnerability turned into community — her platform has now reached over 800,000 followers.

Through raw storytelling and advocacy, Amber speaks openly about the realities of foster care, including hardship, neglect, and abuse, while also highlighting resilience and healing. Today, she is a two-time college graduate, a mother of three, a business owner, and a passionate partner to foster families who want to do better for the children in their care.

In partnership with Be The Source, Amber shares her story, answers difficult questions, and offers insight to help foster families create safer, more healing homes, so no child has to feel alone in the system.