Andrea Chatwin, MA, CCC, is the founder and director of A Child's Song Support Services, a multiservice agency that supports families joined together through adoption, foster care, and other forms of permanency. Andrea holds a master's degree in counseling psychology with expertise in early childhood mental health and developmental trauma. She has specialized training as a trauma therapist and has spent over twenty years working with families of children and youth who have had parental or caregiver losses and placement disruptions. Her work on attachment and trauma-informed transitioning of children from care to permanency has resulted in systemic changes.

Andrea is the author of two manuals, Teaching the Hurt Child: Relationships Between Trauma, Attachment and Learning and Transitioning Children from Foster Care to Adoption, as well as two children's books, My Baby Brain Is Loud Tonight and Mabel's Moving. She has developed programs, presented workshops, and consulted extensively with government agencies, school districts, and nonprofits to support trauma- and attachment-informed responding to children and youth.

Andrea is adoptive parent of two daughters who are now young adults and has therefore experienced firsthand the unique joys and challenges of parenting children who have experienced trauma. She and her family live with their two rescue dogs, Teddy and Bear in the Ocean Park areas of Surrey, BC.