Claire joined the Lifeline team in April of 2009 and currently leads our Domestic Adoption team in the Birmingham office. She’s originally from Dallas, Texas but moved to Birmingham to attend Samford University where she studied Sociology. She went on to attend the University of Alabama to receive her Masters in Social Work. Claire and her husband, Joel, have three sons – Isaiah, Nico, and Benji. Claire’s favorite thing about working at Lifeline is meeting new families and preparing them for the journey of parenting through adoption. She considers it a great joy to partner with families in a (literal) life-changing process! She has also been trained as a TBRI (Trust Based Relational Intervention) Practitioner through the Karen Purvis Institute for Child Development at Texas Christian University.