Adoption and Foster Care Consultation
Supports for Adoptive / Prospective Adoptive Parent(s) Foster / Prospective Foster Parents and Counseling Professionals
If you have landed here, you may be an adoptive or prospective adoptive parent, or you may be foster or prospecitve foster parent, or you may also be a professional who is looking for support. You may have an adoptee/fosteree in your life who is having interpersonal or self-identity issues that you do not fully understand in the context of their adoptee/fosteree identity, or you are a prospective adoptive/foster parent who wants to understand what the realities of adoption/foster care might be for you.
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Given that society paints adoption with inherent positivity and foster care as a means to do good with income benefits for added motivation, it is no surprise that non-adoptee/fosteree-competent professionals, adoptive, and foster parents struggle to understand or blindly miss the queues that contribute to the struggles their adoptees/fosterees experience – adoptees/fosterees present at higher rates for mental health needs and both populations are 4x more likely to attempt suicide (Keyes et al., 2013) (Youth.gov, 2022). ​
Your efforts to begin to understand the adoptee/fosteree in your life through the lens of an adoptee/fosteree-competent therapist is a positive and supportive action that will benefit all involved. I am here to center and give voice to the adoptee/fosteree who may not feel able to speak up for themselves; in the end, it will always be their voice that is the most important to hear when they feel you are safe and trustworthy enough to let you hear it – important to know and accept that this may never happen.
• adoption motivation(s) • saviorism complex • understanding of the primal wound and family separation trauma • International Transracial Adoptees (ITRA) identities • acculturation vs assimilation vs enculturation • cultural annihilation • accepting adoption as an industry • legalized child trafficking • paper orphans • addressing personal guilts • unresolved personal traumas / familial histories • privilege in the triad • domestic vs international adoption • transracial vs same race adoption • dismantling the 'grateful' narrative • open adoption practices in closed adoption situations • adoption vs guardianship vs family preservation •
$175 - 50 minute appointments
INSURANCE
I am out of network with all insurance companies. Many clients are able to utilize their out-of-network benefits for counseling services and get reimbursed by their insurance company. I will provide you with a copy of a superbill which you can submit for possible reimbursement. I also encourage you to verify your out-of-network benefits prior to your session. If you have access to HRA/FSA/HAS funds, I accept those funds as forms of payment along with credit cards.