Foster Care and Adoption.
Bringing a child into your home is a beautiful thing. It can also be an incredibly challenging experience. Whether you have decided to grow your family via foster care or adoption, you are faced with unique challenges that you may have not been prepared for: attachment difficulties, challenging behaviors, doubt, regret and disappointment. This decision may have also brought up past feelings of grief and loss that are causing you to operate from a place depletion and reactivity. Navigating the role of biological family can also trigger unexpected emotions in both yourself and your child. Perhaps you are still considering whether this would be a good option for your family. Maybe you and your spouse have conflicting ideas of what this looks like for your family.
Or maybe you yourself are adopted or have experienced or been impacted by the foster care system, and no one has helped you navigate your thoughts and feelings about these experiences. Grief, loss, trauma, secrecy, rejection, guilt, shame, and issues regarding identity: all feelings that can have roots in growing up as an individual impacted by foster/adoption.
Wherever you are at in this journey, I would love to walk with you and help you explore the complexities these challenges may bring.
In addition to over eight years working as a Social Worker in the field of Foster/Adoption and Permanency, I have received ACT certification for Mental Health Professional (Adoption Clinical Training) and extensive training in TBRI (Trust Based Relational Intervention) techniques.
