Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Family
About My Clients
You might be foster or adoptive parents seeking to understand your child's unique needs and behaviors and looking for direction on how to parent more effectively. You might be an adult adoptee struggling with identity, search and reunion, or grief and loss. You might be a birth mother facing complex emotions or experiencing reunion for the first time. Whatever the case, I am here to hold space for you.
My Background and Approach
I have learned by listening to the voices of adult adoptees, birth families, and adoptive and foster families so that I may better understand your experience. I myself am an adoptive mother through foster care which is one of many reasons this issue is so important to me. I also have extensive training on adoption and foster care. I have completed Training for Adoption Competency (TAC) through the Center for Adoption Support and Education (CASE). I have experience and education in Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). I have also completed foster parent training for GA foster parent licensure (IMPACT). My goal is to help clients identify root causes of issues and process the past so they can move forward. I am also able to help many co-occuring difficulties including identity development, faith deconstruction, religious trauma, and depression. I am affirming of who you are and trust that you are the expert on your life. I look forward to hearing from you!
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I firmly belief that we must look back, process and grief past losses and traumas, so that we may move forward. This has been true in my clients lives as well as my own. Along the way it is important to have tools to take care of yourself, stand up for yourself, and create safe spaces for you to feel calm and confident. Adoption issues are extremely complex. Society often does not accept that adoption can include trauma, loss, identity issues, disconnection from culture and race, and a host of mental health challenges. Adoptees are expected to feel lucky and grateful. In my (virtual) office, you are allowed to feel whatever you feel. No judgment, no holding back. The good and the bad. I hope to create that safe space for you.