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Let’s work together to improve your life’s journey.
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 live your life to its fullest. Adoption search and reunion, transracial adoption, identity, rejection, 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 clinical graduate school programs resulting in few mental health professionals having the clinical knowledge and expertise 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 experience 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 35 years to become an adoption-competent counselor. Additionally, Marie is trained in trauma therapies to help clients address and remove trauma symptoms. As an adoption counselor, Marie provides counseling, consultation, and adoption support groups in her Albany, NY office. Marie shares her expertise as an adoption speaker at conferences, professional development programs 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
If 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 that uses 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.