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Being an adoptee, birth parent, or adoptive parent is a complex lifelong journey. Adoption issues counseling can help you look at how adoption has impacted you and help you to live your life to its fullest. Adoption search and reunion, transracial adoption, identity, rejection fears, grief, relinquishment trauma, and difficult family conversations are just some of the topics that are unique to adoption counseling. Working with an adoption competent counselor is important because adoption issues are rarely taught in graduate school resulting in few mental health professionals having the clinical knowledge to work with adoption triad members and their family.
Let’s work together to help you live the life you have dreamed of. From the first phone call, you will hear empathy for what you have experienced and hope for your future.
Knowing that adoption issues are complex, Marie has extensively studied relinquishment and adoption issues for over 30 years to become an adoption competent counselor. As an adoption counselor, Marie provides relinquishment and adoption issues counseling, consultation, and adoption support groups in her Albany, NY office. Marie shares her expertise as an adoption speaker at conferences, professional development for mental health professionals, and adoption support groups. To learn about Marie’s background as a clinical adoption social worker visit the about page.
Marie’s Services
The Teletherapy Option
Would you like to talk to an adoption counselor, but a local counselor is unavailable, or you are unable to make office visits, then teletherapy may be a counseling option for you. Teletherapy is counseling appointments that use secure video conferencing technology. Individuals do not need to be technology savvy – a click on an email link to join an appointment via a smartphone, tablet, or computer is all that is needed. Please note: Teletherapy is only available for New York state residents due to licensing regulations for clinical social workers.