Being adopted can shape a person’s sense of identity, belonging, and relationship in ways that continue across a lifetime.

Some adoptees come to therapy for reasons that seem unrelated to adoption, and want a therapist who understands that it may be part of the picture without assuming it is the whole of it. For others, adoption is in the foreground. They may be deciding whether to search for their birth family, in the midst of a search, navigating reunion, or adjusting to being found. And some are late-discovery adoptees, who learn as adults that they are adopted. I work with adoptees in all of these circumstances.

Adoption involves more than one person, and sometimes it makes sense to come to therapy together. I work with pairs whose relationships are shaped by adoption. I also see adoptive parents and birth parents individually.