If you are looking for a counselor or speaker who knows adoption issues, you are in the right place.
Meet Marie
Marie Dolfi is a clinical social worker who has studied relinquishment and adoption issues for over 30 years. She is proud to be an adoption professional who provides counseling for adoption triad members, adoption support group leader, trainer on adoption issues, and adoption issues advocate. Marie’s advocacy includes access to original birth certificates for New York adoptees, advocacy for New York State post-adoption services, and as a board member for adoption organizations. During conversations with clients on common adoption issues (i.e. core issues of adoption, relinquishment trauma), clients frequently comment “I thought it was only me.” This often leads to a discussion on how adoptees’ experiences of not staying in their first family and lack of support on adoption issues can result in issues with rejection, trust, and a negative self-concept. Counseling discussions on how trauma can change the way the brain works can illustrate to clients how their emotional reactions are a normative response to what they have experienced. As a clinical social worker, Marie believes education on adoption issues and trauma often leads to insight and opportunities to learn techniques to help adoption triad members live their best life.