History of Beatitude House

Matthew Bradley tells the history of Beatitude House...

I first encountered attachment treatment in 1994 when I was asked to accompany an adoptive family to Evergreen, Colorado, for two weeks of intensive therapy. By the end of the first week, I knew what they were doing was very effective at setting the stage for real healing.

Moving to Colorado for Attachment Training

I was eager to learn more so I traveled back to Colorado several times. At this point, I realized that in order to master this approach, a full immersion was necessary. After months of prayer and deliberation, Fawn and I pulled up stakes in Florida, where we had been established for 15 years, and moved on faith to Evergreen. We became licensed as therapeutic foster parents to meet our financial needs but looking back it was the best training of all… in the trenches. The kids taught us a ton!!!

Attachment Intensives and Foster Children

As therapeutic foster parents we had up to four children in our home ranging in ages from 4 to 17. All of them needed an extended stay to practice how to be a good family member so they could work their way home. Fawn did the bulk of the parenting during the day while I trained with a number of different attachment agencies in Evergreen.

The attachment training was initially observation but very soon I had hands-on involvement. I feel very blessed to have been a treatment team member for more than 100 two-week intensives over the course of the five years we were in Colorado.

The experience was extremely rich. Sometimes there would be two intensives going on at the same time and I would find myself in different roles…sometimes therapist, sometimes therapeutic Dad.

All the time we were learning different approaches from world-renown experts in the attachment field; people like Terry Levy, Michael Orlans, Dan Hughes, and Nancy Thomas. Attunement, Corrective Attachment Therapy^©, and specialized parenting techniques were all part of the learning experience. 

Beatitude House Comes to Be During our third year (2000), we felt led to start our own agency so that the healing power of the Lord would not be limited in any way.  Many adoptive parents are Christian and they often commented about the benefit their family received from attachment therapy, but lamented the lack of open prayer and acknowledgment of who was  really doing the healing. Beatitude House was incorporated that year and He has continued to bless the direction we are headed.

Matthew is a licensed marriage and family therapist having practiced for 20 years. He has trained and counseled foster and adoptive families in both private practice and agency settings. Throughout his career he has trained and advised caseworkers and supervisors in the social service system. Since 1994 he has received extensive training and experience in attachment therapy.

• Approved supervisor and clinical member: American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

• Member: National Association of Social Workers

• International Association of Theophostic Ministers-Advanced Level Training

• American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC)

• Attach (Association for Treatment and Training
  in the Attachment of Children)

Fawn Bradley

Fawn has been helping children and their families for over ten years. She was the Program Director of a national at-risk prevention program in Florida before moving to Colorado to work with severely emotionally wounded children. Her desire is to teach parents to “maintain the integrity” of the parent/child relationship and help families stay intact. This is what encourages her and Matt in training parents to have a Godly mindset in a secular world.

Fawn has been trained in basic and advanced Theophostic® Ministry and trains others in Theophostic®’s basic principles. This is one of the many tools she and the ministry team use in providing treatment. She is a facilitating member of IATM; the International Association for Theophostic® Ministry. She is also a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors and is currently working towards her Masters degree in Christian counseling. Fawn is also a Christian life coach, working with individuals to help them create and master their own goals and strategies for their lives. To learn more about christian life coaching, you can

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