Adoption Therapy

Adoption is a life-long experience involving complex issues that impact individuals, couples and families. Whether your role is an adoptive parent, adopted adult or birth parent, counseling will guide and support you in understanding about how adoption has impacted your life. You are not alone: adoption touches 1 in 4 people.

Do you wonder about or experience any of the following?

• Are you feeling disconnected with others and finding it difficult to experience a trusting relationship?
• Do you find it difficult to talk to others about the truth of your adoption experience?
• Do you feel constant grief and feel as though you can’t recover from your adoption loss?
• Are you stuck in your reunion because you don’t know what your rights are, or are worried that you may lose the connection you have established if you assert yourself?
• Do you want to sort out how adoption issues impact relationships with yourself, your spouse/partner, family members or co-workers?
• Do you want information and skills regarding adoptive parenting or how children experience and live with their adoption?

Adoption counseling weaves together adoption literature, research along with integrative counseling practices to assist you to live your best adoption experience.

THE MISSION OF ADOPTION COUNSELING IS TO VALIDATE, INFORM AND GUIDE.

As a therapist, I provide current adoption literature, necessary skills and techniques to ensure healing or resolution of a person’s or family’s adoption experience. Counseling can help with sorting out what issues are adoption related and which issues are not. Counseling can also help you to learn about and express your adoption story in a new way so that you can experience inner security, confidence and self compassion.  

As a registered clinical counselor, I have provided adoption counseling for the past twenty years. I am also an adopted adult who has experienced a successful reunion with my birth family for many years. I bring both personal and professional insight and understanding to my work in adoption.

Counselling with me will help you...

• learn how to express your emotions, thoughts and beliefs without the worry of how family members or friends will react.
• understand how the core issues in adoption impact all adopted persons, birth parents and adoptive parents. Learn which issues impact you.
• decide how you want to proceed in reuniting with the child you placed for adoption or the birth parent who placed you for adoption.
• get clear about how adoption issues impact how you connect or relate with others
• learn communication skills that will enable you to talk to family and friends about adoption or reunion issues.
• understand and decide if domestic or international adoption or reproductive technologies is right for you.
• get support and guidance for complex issues such as secrecy, adoption breakdown, genetic sexual attraction, special needs adoptions and family rejection.
• develop adoption sensitive parenting skills that are attachment based and learn how to talk to your kids about adoption.
• find professional adoption - sensitive counseling that will enable your child/teen to express his/her adoption experience using art therapy or talk therapy.

Why not start today? Take new steps along your exciting adoption path!