Adoption Triad Therapy
Psychotherapy for Adoptees, Adoptive Parents, and Birth Parents
Adoption shapes the nervous system, identity, and expectations of relationships in ways that are often misunderstood or minimized.
For adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents, adoption can carry grief, longing, loyalty conflicts, and unanswered questions that surface across the lifespan—sometimes quietly, sometimes with force.
I work with members of the adoption triad, navigating separation trauma, identity formation, and the emotional impact of search and reunion. In a world shaped by DNA testing, social media, and unprecedented access to biological information, many people find themselves facing complex emotional realities without adequate support—or language—for what they are experiencing.
My approach is psychodynamic and relational, grounded in an understanding of how adoption lives in the body, the psyche, and close relationships. Rather than rushing toward resolution or a single coherent narrative, we slow things down. This work makes space for ambivalence, contradiction, and feelings that may have been disallowed, minimized, or left unspoken.
Who is adoption therapy for?
Adoptees
Adults exploring questions of identity, belonging, attachment, and trust, whether adoption has always felt present or has only recently moved into the foreground. This includes individuals navigating search and reunion, estrangement, complicated family dynamics, or a persistent sense that something important has been missing but difficult to name.
Adoptive parents
Parents grappling with the emotional realities of adoption beyond logistics and good intentions—questions of attachment, grief, loyalty, rupture, and repair. Therapy offers space to reflect on your own history, the relational field you’re creating, and how to stay emotionally present without defensiveness or collapse.
birth parents
Individuals processing loss, secrecy, shame, grief, and unresolved attachment, sometimes decades after placement. This work honors the complexity of relinquishment and creates room for experiences that may never have been fully acknowledged or supported.
