Facts.
The fact from the 2016 dissertation still stands: maltreatment or a caregiver break after age five was tied to more substantial attachment difficulty — not less.
Clinic & Classroom · Since 1992
Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker, PhD, LMHC-QS & Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker, MA
▼ THE CURTAIN IS UP ▼
The Hour
This is the hour we pull the curtain.
Not a highlight reel. The stories that show what is snapped, what can shift, and what a solid bond actually holds. Clinic and classroom.
34Years
1992Since
2Chairs · 1 Mic
We are not only talking.
The Creed
Facts. Focus. Fire.
Focus.
The focus is the child in front of you — not the system’s average.
Fire.
The fire is the refusal to call that child past the window.
The Arc on Every Conversation
Snapped. Shifted. Solid.
01
Snapped.
Survival circuitry has overridden attachment circuitry.
Name the storm before you argue about the weather.02
Shifted.
The loop interrupted — in the home, the classroom, and the adult’s own history.
03
Solid.
Not a cured child. A secure base that outlasts the placement, the school year, and the next crisis.
The Day We Hand the Room
This is ZAP.
Z
Zero-in.
Zero-in on the wound.
A
Activate.
Activate one truth the nervous system can hear.
P
Propel.
Propel one move finished the same afternoon.
✦ No magic wand. ✦
Who Is in the Chair
The ones who stayed.
Parents
Who stayed through the push-pull.
Educators
Who finally reached the child in seat three.
Clinicians
Done calling escalation failure.
Faith Leaders
Who did not quit in the foster fog.
Behind the Mic
Two chairs. One code.
FS
Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker
PhD · LMHC-QS
Franklin carries the case.
TS
Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker
MA
Tonya carries the classroom.
Attachment Focused Clinician
Nationally Certified TF-CBT
Nationally Accredited Adoption Clinician
Florida Certified Professional Educator — ESE K-12, Elementary & ESOL
34 Years · Since 1992
The Mission
We elevate the voices the file usually edits out.
Families rising above systems that fail them. Not by performing harder. By decoding the pattern — and staying.
Attachment Code Cracked.™
Zero-in. Activate. Propel. · Snapped. Shifted. Solid.