About Promises Connected
We Believe Healing Happens in Connection.
People make more sense when we understand their story.
Promises Connected Family Treatment was created from a simple but powerful understanding: people make more sense when we understand their story.
Symptoms, behaviors, relationship difficulties, substance use, emotional reactions, and family conflict rarely exist in isolation. They develop within experiences, relationships, environments, and systems.
Our work helps individuals and families understand those connections.
Our Mission
Promises Connected Family Treatment exists to provide trauma-informed, culturally responsive, relationship-centered behavioral health services that help individuals and families heal from painful experiences, strengthen relationships, interrupt harmful patterns, and build healthier futures.
We also equip professionals and organizations with the knowledge, strategies, and systems necessary to better support the communities they serve.
Our Vision
We envision communities where children, adults, and families are not defined by what has happened to them; where behavioral health services address both symptoms and underlying experiences; and where families receive coordinated support that strengthens recovery, connection, resilience, and long-term well-being.
Why "Promises Connected"?
Connection is central to nearly everything we do.
Promises Connected represents our commitment to helping people reconnect—with themselves, with the people who matter to them, and with possibilities they may have stopped believing were available.
Children develop through connection.
Families heal through connection.
Recovery is strengthened through connection.
Healthy relationships require connection.
Communities change when systems become connected rather than fragmented.
Our Clinical Philosophy
Instead of only asking what behavior needs to stop,
we become curious about what the behavior may be communicating.
Instead of treating one member of a family as the problem,
we look at the relationships and systems surrounding the concern.
Instead of asking people simply to "move on" from painful experiences,
we help them understand how those experiences shaped beliefs, emotional responses, relationships, and coping patterns.
And instead of focusing exclusively on pathology,
we identify strengths, resilience, relationships, resources, and opportunities for repair.
Our Founder
Sommer L. Ewing, MA, LMFT, LCASA
Founder & Clinical Director
Sommer Ewing is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist whose career has centered on helping children, adolescents, adults, and families affected by trauma, attachment disruption, family conflict, behavioral health needs, and substance use.
Her professional experience spans outpatient behavioral health, foster care, residential treatment, intensive community-based services, substance use treatment, family services, program leadership, workforce development, and community collaboration.
Her work reflects a systemic belief that sustainable change occurs when treatment addresses not only the individual, but also the relationships, experiences, and environments influencing the individual's life.
That philosophy ultimately became the foundation for Promises Connected Family Treatment and the TAPE Repair™ framework.
What Makes Promises Connected Different?
We do not want to become simply another place that provides appointments.
We are building a continuum of healing, education, recovery, workforce development, and community partnership.
Clinical treatment may address immediate behavioral health concerns.
Family recovery services strengthen the systems surrounding individuals.
The TAPE Repair™ Institute helps people understand the deeper patterns influencing relationships and behavior.
Our organizational partnerships help schools, agencies, and communities create environments better equipped to respond to trauma and behavioral health needs.
Together, these services allow Promises Connected to intervene at the places where change actually occurs.
Ready to Connect?
You do not have to know exactly what service you need before reaching out. Start where you are.