You love your adopted child, but sometimes it is hard to really like them, and that feels hard to admit. Your adoption journey and the process of connecting to your child has not at all gone to plan. You have tried every behavioral management strategy you can think of, and nothing seems to work. You have tried to be firm, to be harsh, to set limits, to not set limits-- you are feeling exhausted and often hopeless. You so deeply want your child to feel safe being in your family, and you want to feel good about your role as their parent. You may have biological children, and the ways you raised them don't seem to be working for your adopted child.

Our adoption-trained therapists can help you understand your child's specific developmental and relational needs in a way that makes sense to you. They will help you to understand how early life experiences (even if your child was adopted at birth) may have influenced your child's ability to feel safe in your family setting and how you can best respond to your child's unique needs while giving yourself the self-compassion you deeply deserve. We will support both you and your child to better understand each other and heal from past trauma, and we will help you as a parent to grieve unmet expectations of what your family "should" look like.

Our therapists are trained in a variety of attachment and trauma informed therapeutic modalities specifically designed to support adoptive families, including therapeutic parenting, Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), Theraplay, and the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT).