Promises Connected Family Treatment
At Promises Connected Family Treatment, we believe meaningful healing happens when we look beyond symptoms and understand the experiences, relationships, and patterns beneath them.
We provide trauma-informed, attachment-focused behavioral health services for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families while partnering with schools, child welfare agencies, healthcare organizations, community organizations, and other systems that support families.
Our work is designed to help people not simply cope with what has happened—but understand it, heal from it, and create something different moving forward.
For Individuals, Families & Referral Partners
Clinical care for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families experiencing trauma, anxiety, behavioral concerns, relationship difficulties, family conflict, substance use concerns, and other behavioral health needs.
Explore TherapyFamily-centered behavioral health and substance use services designed to support youth, caregivers, and families impacted by substance use, trauma, family disruption, and child-welfare involvement.
Explore Family RecoveryEducation, workshops, intensives, professional development, and transformational learning experiences built around our TAPE framework: Trauma. Attachment. Patterns. Emotional Integrity. For individuals, couples, parents, professionals, and communities who want to understand what is beneath the patterns they keep repeating.
Explore TAPE Repair™Promises Connected partners with schools, DSS agencies, behavioral health providers, healthcare organizations, nonprofits, faith communities, colleges, employers, and community organizations. We provide training, consultation, program development, workforce initiatives, behavioral health education, family engagement strategies, and customized programming.
Partner With Promises ConnectedFor DSS, Schools, Agencies & Healthcare Organizations
Clinical care for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families experiencing trauma, anxiety, behavioral concerns, relationship difficulties, family conflict, substance use concerns, and other behavioral health needs.
Family-centered behavioral health and substance use services designed to support youth, caregivers, and families impacted by substance use, trauma, family disruption, and child-welfare involvement.
Education, workshops, intensives, professional development, and transformational learning experiences built around our TAPE framework: Trauma. Attachment. Patterns. Emotional Integrity. For individuals, couples, parents, professionals, and communities who want to understand what is beneath the patterns they keep repeating.
Promises Connected partners with schools, DSS agencies, behavioral health providers, healthcare organizations, nonprofits, faith communities, colleges, employers, and community organizations. We provide training, consultation, program development, workforce initiatives, behavioral health education, family engagement strategies, and customized programming.
Our Clinical Approaches
We use structured, research-supported approaches — not guesswork. Every modality we offer is selected because the evidence supports it for the populations we serve.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
For children, adolescents & caregivers impacted by trauma
Alternatives for Families: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Addressing family conflict, coercive parenting & child behavior
Seeking Safety
Trauma & substance use — building safety and coping skills
Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress
For adolescents navigating chronic stress and trauma
The Seven Challenges®
Adolescent substance use and co-occurring behavioral health
Positive Parenting Program
Strengthening parenting skills and family relationships
Family Systems Therapy
Understanding and shifting patterns across the family system
TAPE Repair™ Framework
Proprietary framework: Trauma · Attachment · Patterns · Emotional Integrity
Specialized, Evidence-Informed Care
Our clinical approach may incorporate evidence-based and evidence-informed models including:
Treatment recommendations are individualized according to clinical need.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Alternatives for Families: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Seeking Safety
Seven Challenges
Attachment-focused and family systems interventions
Substance use treatment and recovery support
Trauma-informed caregiver and parenting interventions
CE-CERT-informed clinician resilience strategies
We Treat the Person—and Understand the System Around Them
A child does not heal separately from the family.
A parent does not recover separately from their history.
A couple cannot change a conflict pattern without understanding what fuels it.
A professional cannot continually care for others without attending to the impact of that work.
And communities cannot improve behavioral health outcomes without addressing the systems surrounding people.
That is why Promises Connected works at multiple levels:
Individuals. Families. Professionals. Organizations. Communities.
Documented Impact
of training participants reported increased confidence recognizing secondary traumatic stress
Post-training evaluation, 2025
of organizational partners reported they would recommend Promises Connected to a peer agency
Partner satisfaction survey, 2025
families completing the TAPE Repair™ program reported measurable improvement in communication and connection
Program completion survey, 2024–2025
of referring providers reported the families they referred received timely, coordinated care
Referral partner feedback, 2025
What Partners & Participants Say
"The consultation services Promises Connected provided helped our clinical team navigate some of our most complex cases. Their trauma-informed lens and family systems approach gave us a framework we now use across our entire program."
Clinical Director
Community Behavioral Health Agency — Mecklenburg County, NC
"I refer families to Promises Connected because I trust that they'll be treated with dignity and that the work will actually address the root — not just the surface behavior. Every family I've sent has come back to me saying they finally felt understood."
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Private Practice — Charlotte, NC
"I came in thinking I needed to fix my child. I left understanding that we needed to heal together. The approach here is different — they never made me feel like the problem. They helped me see that I was also carrying wounds that needed attention."
Anonymous Program Participant
"The consultation services Promises Connected provided helped our clinical team navigate some of our most complex cases. Their trauma-informed lens and family systems approach gave us a framework we now use across our entire program."
Clinical Director — Community Behavioral Health Agency, Mecklenburg County, NC
"I refer families to Promises Connected because I trust that they'll be treated with dignity and that the work will actually address the root — not just the surface behavior. Every family I've sent has come back to me saying they finally felt understood."
Licensed Clinical Social Worker — Private Practice, Charlotte, NC
"I came in thinking I needed to fix my child. I left understanding that we needed to heal together. The approach here is different — they never made me feel like the problem. They helped me see that I was also carrying wounds that needed attention."
Anonymous Program Participant
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