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Now showing · Lakeland, Florida · since 1992

The voices behind Dr. RAD™

The Attachment Code Breaker™: Attachment Code Cracked.™

From the clinic Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker, PhD, LMHC-QS

From the classroom Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker, MA

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Poster: From the clinic and the classroom. No magic wand. A cracked padlock bursts with blue light between a therapist's office with a case file and a classroom chalkboard reading Lesson, Understand, Support, Empower. Credits: Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker, PhD and Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker, MA.
Exhibit A No magic wand.
0 years in the room
where attachment breaks

Scene 01 — Since 1992

For 34 years, since 1992, we have been in the room where attachment breaks. Reactive Attachment Disorder. Trauma loops. Nervous-system hijacks. Push-pull. Trust crashes. Bond breaks. Attachment fallout that hits adoptive and foster families like a freight train.

One of us came from the clinic. One of us came from the classroom.

The code does not crack
from one side alone.

Scene 02 — Misdiagnosed as attitude

That “out-of-control” behavior is straight defiance.

It is a connection glitch.

Built by early trauma, often by loss. Kids lock into survival mode. Families spin into chaos cycles, parent burnout, and emotional landmines nobody put on the intake form.

  • We have seen it.
  • We have lived it.
  • We have spent decades writing it down.

The long arc

Snapped. Shifted. Solid.

  1. Act I

    SNAPPED.

    Survival circuitry overriding attachment circuitry.

    Name the storm before you argue about the weather.

  2. Act II

    SHIFTED.

    The loop interrupted — in the home, the classroom, and the parent’s own history.

  3. Act III

    SOLID.

    Not a cured child.

    A secure base that holds after the crisis leaves the room.

The day on that arc

ZAP

Z

Zero-in.

Name the attachment fact with precision.

A

Activate.

The jolt. One truth the nervous system can hear.

P

Propel.

One move specific enough to finish the same afternoon.

No magic wand.

0reps

Three hundred sixty-five of those reps walk a family from snapped, through shifted, toward solid.

The cast

Two voices. One code.

Case file · The Clinic

The clinical architect

Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker, PhD, LMHC-QS

Franklin is the clinical architect behind Dr. RAD™ The Attachment Code Breaker™. His 2016 dissertation, Examining the Relationship between Child Maltreatment and Severity of Attachment Difficulties Among Children Ages Five and Older, put receipts on the link between maltreatment and severe attachment wounds.

Those files are the blueprint behind every hard reset and attachment reboot. No fluff. Evidence, structure, and a faith that does not flinch at the wound.

He is Founder, President, and CEO of Elevating Trauma to Trust, operating as Dr. RAD™ The Attachment Code Breaker™, under Mr. Ed’s Circle of Trust, Inc. Crisis intervention. Long-haul healing. Pre- and post-adoption support. Science plus faith-anchored fire.

  • Licensed Mental Health Counselor & Qualified Supervisor
  • Nationally Certified TF-CBT Therapist
  • Nationally Accredited Adoption Clinician
  • Attachment Focused Clinician
  • Former ESE Certified Educator
  • MA in Biblical Counseling, Trinity Bible College & Seminary

Healing is not only recovery. It is redemption.

Lesson plan · The Classroom

The educational voice & heart translator

Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker, MA

Florida Certified Professional Educator, ESE K-12, Elementary, and ESOL. MA in Counseling Psychology. Teacher at Medulla Elementary in Lakeland. Teacher of the Year, 2024.

She reads the child in seat three before the behavior plan ever gets written.

The classroom is where attachment fallout shows up as a referral, a shutdown, or a kid nobody can reach by lunch. She turns the clinical code into language a parent can use at 2 a.m. and a teacher can use before the bell.

  • Florida Certified Professional Educator
  • ESE K-12 · Elementary · ESOL
  • MA in Counseling Psychology
  • Medulla Elementary, Lakeland
  • Teacher of the Year, 2024
0 years married

Scene 03 — Not theory. Home.

We raised an adopted daughter with RAD and two sons with attachment difficulty. We write together.

SNAPPED. SHIFTED. SOLID. and ZAP — Zero-in. Activate. Propel. — carry both names, including Jesus Matters ZAP, because:

The clinic without the classroom = theory.

The classroom without the clinic = another behavior chart.

From Lakeland

Not side quests.

They are how stability gets built outside the session.

This spot is RAD-unfiltered

Deep dives. Truth that cuts the foster fog and the permanency mirage. We name the trigger, hand you the tool, and walk the arc from survival mode to a bond that holds.

Attachment Code Cracked.™

Zero-in. Activate. Propel.

SNAPPED. SHIFTED. SOLID.

Crack it. Shift it. Own it.

Elevating trauma to trust.

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