Specialized Adoption Therapy: Supporting Every Member of the Adoption Triad

Adoption creates families through love and choice, but it also brings unique emotional challenges that require specialized therapeutic support. Our adoption-focused therapy services address the complex needs of adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents throughout the lifelong adoption journey.

Expert Support for the Adoption Experience

The adoption experience touches lives in profound ways. Adoptees may struggle with questions of identity, feelings of loss, or attachment challenges. Adoptive parents often navigate unexpected emotional terrain while building meaningful connections with their children. Birth parents may process grief, loss, and complex emotions about their decisions.

Our trauma-informed approach recognizes that adoption experiences can create both visible and invisible wounds that deserve compassionate attention and healing.

Specialized Services for Adoptees

Whether you were adopted as an infant or through foster care, international adoption, or domestic placement, we provide a safe space to explore your unique story. Our therapeutic approach helps adoptees:

• Process feelings of loss, grief, and identity questions
• Build a strong sense of self while integrating birth and adoptive family narratives
• Navigate relationships with birth family members
• Address attachment challenges and trust issues
• Work through adoption-related trauma

Adoption-Competent Support for Parents

Adoptive parenting brings joy alongside distinctive challenges. Our therapy supports parents in:

• Building secure attachments with children who have experienced early trauma
• Understanding and responding to adoption-specific behaviors
• Communicating about adoption in age-appropriate ways
• Managing unexpected emotions that arise through the parenting journey
• Creating a family culture that honors all aspects of your child's heritage

Compassionate Care for Birth Parents

Birth parents deserve support in processing their experience. Our therapy offers:

• Space to grieve and honor your decision
• Tools for managing complex emotions around contact arrangements
• Support through reunions or evolving relationships with your birth child
• Healing from feelings of shame, guilt, or loss
• Building a meaningful life after placement

The Adoption Therapy Difference

Unlike general mental health practitioners, our adoption-competent therapists have specialized training in adoption-specific issues, attachment theory, developmental trauma, and cross-cultural competency. We understand the neurobiological impacts of early separation and how adoption experiences can manifest throughout the lifespan.

Begin Your Healing Journey

Every adoption story is unique, and every individual deserves personalized support. Whether you're considering adoption, recently formed your family, or are navigating adoption issues decades later, our therapeutic approach meets you exactly where you are.

Through evidenced-based modalities including EMDR, Theraplay, and narrative therapy, we create pathways toward healing, connection, and wholeness for everyone touched by adoption.