Kristin Van Marter Souers is a licensed mental-health clinician with more than 30 years of experience teaching, coaching, training, and consulting in a multitude of settings. She is the lead author, with Pete Hall, of two revolutionary, bestselling ASCD books on childhood trauma and stress: Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom and Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation: Trauma-Invested Practices for Fostering Resilient Learners. She is coauthor, with Keith Orchard and Pete Hall, of The Fostering Resilience Workbook: Strategies and Steps to Support Our Learners, Secondary Edition. She is also the author of the first in a series of children’s books to come: 10 Things Our Brains Need.