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Tree Branch Root Model

Tree Branch Root Model™ is a trauma-informed healing and coaching framework designed to help children, adults, and families understand the emotional root of their behaviors, patterns, and relationships.

Just like a tree, every person grows from a foundation—the root—and what we don't heal in childhood often shows up in adulthood. This method helps identify emotional wounds, teaches emotional regulation, and builds healthy relationship skills from the inside out.

Whether you're a parent, teacher, therapist, or simply doing your own healing work, Tree Branch Root Model™ offers tools, language, and support to help you grow stronger roots, healthier branches, and lasting fruit in your life.

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Tree

The Whole Person or System.

The tree represents the full body — the child, adult, family, classroom, or community that needs healing. It's what we want to see growing, thriving, and standing strong.

Goal: A healthy, rooted life that can bear good fruit.

Branches

The Disruptive Behaviors.

The branches are what people usually notice first: acting out in school, withdrawal, anger, disrespect, defiance, relationship problem, anxiety, shutting down, poor grades or aggression. These are symptoms, not the cause. Too often, systems and adults try to "trim the branches" — punish the behavior — without ever addressing what’s feeding it.

Roots

The Real Issue.

The roots are what's happening under the surface: childhood trauma, abandonment or rejection, loss, grief, divorce, unmet needs (emotional, physical, spiritual), family dysfunction or instability, insecure attachment, cultural and generational wounds. The root is the origin of the behavior — and healing has to start there.

If you don’t heal the root, the same behaviors will keep growing back.

You’re trying to fix the fruit (behavior),
but you need to check the root.”

The Child Whisperer

A Gift, A Calling, A Connection

I didn’t choose the title “Child Whisperer” — it was given to me by a coworker who noticed something deeper about the way I show up for others. They saw how children would calm down in my presence, how they opened up without fear, how they felt seen, safe, and understood — not just for their behavior, but for their being.

The truth is...

I speak the language of the inner child.

Whether I’m working with children in schools or adults navigating emotional pain, I tap into something sacred — the quiet cries, the unspoken needs, the hidden wounds of the inner child.

Why This Matters for My Business

In every offering of Tree Branch Root Work, the heart of The Child Whisperer is present. Whether I’m coaching a parent, guiding a school team, or helping adults unpack childhood pain, I use this whisper — this intuitive gift — to help others feel safe enough to heal.

Through this lens, I offer:

Coaching for adults ready to reconnect with their inner child
Support for children struggling in school or at home
Family Engagement services that bridge the gap between home, school, and self
Workshops & Tools that invite healing through reflection, emotional literacy, and generational understanding
“When you learn to whisper to the child — the one standing in front of you or the one living inside you — you can finally begin to heal the noise of your past.”

Let me whisper healing into your story.

What is a Child Whisperer?

A Child Whisperer is someone gifted with the ability to deeply observe, listen, and connect with children — and the inner child within adults — in ways that bring peace, clarity, and healing. I use emotional intelligence, trauma-informed care, and inner child lens work to decode behaviors, build trust, and foster transformation.

I see beyond the tantrum to the trigger.

I hear what silence is trying to say.

I respond not to resistance, but to root causes.

Viola Nickson | TBRM