About Bryan Post

Bryan Post is an internationally respected leader in the fields of trauma, stress, and attachment. He is best known for developing the Stress Model – a compassionate framework that explains how all behaviour arises from a state of stress, guided by the core emotions of fear or love.

At the heart of his work is a simple but powerful belief: children’s challenging behaviours, including meltdowns and children’s violent behaviours, are not problems to be “fixed,” but signs of underlying stress and emotional overwhelm. What these children most need is understanding, connection, and regulation—not punishment or control.

With more than 25 years’ experience, Bryan has dedicated his life to supporting some of the most vulnerable children and families, particularly those impacted by foster care, adoption, and early trauma. Having grown up in foster care himself, he brings not only deep professional expertise but also lived experience to his teaching and practice. His work resonates strongly with those seeking adoption support and foster care support rooted in compassion and neuroscience.

Bryan is the founder of the Post Institute for Family-Centred Therapy, and his Family-Centred Regulatory Parenting model is now taught in universities and applied across many disciplines. He is also a gifted speaker and author, widely recognised for his influential books The Great Behaviour Breakdown and From Fear to Love—both of which offer insights valuable to parents, carers, and professionals navigating children mental health issues and complex behaviours.

Through lectures, trainings, podcasts, and online resources, Bryan continues to share his vision of trauma-informed practice—one rooted in compassion, guided by brain science, and grounded in the healing power of safe, nurturing relationships. His work has become an essential resource for those seeking parent support in the face of behaviours often misunderstood or mislabelled.

Trauma Informed Parenting is founded on the evidence from the ACEs study in Scotland and the transformative work of Bryan Post’s Stress Model.