I have lived experience as an adoptive parent of both a biological and an adopted child. I work with all members of the adoption constellation/triad in adoptive and foster families in order to navigate complex identities, family situations and structures, address life transitions and adjustments, and help to facilitate appropriate expectations. Understanding the impact of early developmental stressors and/or attachment trauma, prenatal exposure to substances, and neurodivergence is crucial to your family or individual functioning. I am here to walk alongside families through this lifelong journey.
Adoption and Attachment Trauma Therapies
Pre-Adoption Consultations & Adoption Records Review
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Prenatal Alcohol and/or Drug Exposure Support
Assisting families to parent children from difficult beginnings in life, using strategies such as TBRI (Trust-Based Relational Intervention), therapeutic parenting
To help families assess their capacity to be a family for a child with a specific background of trauma, neglect or prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol.
Educating and equipping on brain impacts to address behavioral needs, neurodivergence, diagnostic and educational needs, parent coaching.
I have a 2-hour webinar entitled:
The Impact of Fetal Alcohol Exposure on Children and the Trauma Work We Do
Adult Adoptees, Birth Families, and Members of the Adoption Constellation
For adult adoptees, the journey of self-discovery often involves complex layers of origin, identity, and attachment. I provide a safe space to explore these narratives.
I provide consultation and psychotherapy to Adult Adoptees, Birth Families, and any other members of the constellation, to process grief/loss, birth/abandonment trauma, late discovery adoptions, undocumented adoptions, roots tracing/search and reunion issues, and other adoption-related issues, to help them navigate the unique complexities of origin, belonging, and identity that arise from the adoption experience or being connected to it. I also work with those who have experienced misattributed parentage or unknown parentage.